2 research outputs found
Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections
Cultural heritage collections usually organise sets of items into exhibitions or guided tours. These items are often accompanied by text that describes the theme and topic of the exhibition and provides background context and details of connections with other items. The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to assist with navigation and provide guides on particular subjects and topics. In this paper we characterise and analyse paths of items created by users of our online system. The analysis highlights that most users spend time selecting items relevant to their chosen topic, but few users took time to add background information to the paths. In order to address this, we conducted preliminary investigations to test whether Wikipedia can be used to automatically add background text for sequences of items. In the future we would like to explore the automatic creation of full paths
Recommended from our members
Supporting the End-User Curation of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Graphs are becoming widely used as a method to capture and integrate diverse sources of data into a unified structure of nodes and links. Cultural heritage is an active domain for Knowledge Graph research, bringing together the metadata of cultural objects with associated information about their use and history. Tools exist for the searching and browsing of Knowledge Graphs but on their own they often do not offer the interpretative sup- port required by a more general audience. This paper describes an approach to creating a layer of interpretation over a Knowledge Graph. Experts in the cultural domain, without expertise in the underlying technology, can curate paths through the Knowledge Graph, selecting and associating cultural objects, which are automatically displayed in the path with relevant content from the Knowledge Graph. Path authors can also provide additional interpretation as well invite responses from followers of the paths. A case study is described in the domain of European pipe organs in which domain experts can curate paths through a Knowledge Graph of currently approximately 2000 objects. The potential of the approach as a way of incrementally formalizing changes or additions to the Knowledge Graph emerged as a theme with domain experts. The applicability of the approach to cultural Knowledge Graphs in general is discussed