paths at digital humanities congress 2012
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A presnetation about the project given by N. Aletras, P.D. Clough, S. Fernando, N.Ford, P. Goodale, M.M. Hall and M. Stevenson from the Information School /Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012TRANSCRIPT
Navigating Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways
N. Aletras, P.D. Clough, S. Fernando, N.Ford, P. Goodale, M.M. Hall, M. Stevenson
University of Sheffield
Information School / Department of Computer Science
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Opening Up Digital Cultural Heritage
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th Septemberhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4069633668/
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Opening Up Digital Cultural Heritage
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
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Cutting Paths through DCH
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
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Leeds Town Hall
Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance
Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior
On The Headrow, sandwiched between the Central Library and Henry Moore Institute. The grand interior houses a notable collection of fine art and the cafe in the recently renovated Victorian Tiled Hall is well worth a visit. The unremarkable exterior architecture is overshadowed by a large broze sculpture by Henry Moore.
Cutting Paths through DCH
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/3731283554/
Follow Paths
Explore the Collection
Share their own Paths
Our Collections
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Collection Language Number & Type of ItemsCulture Grid English 547,741 ImagesHispana Spanish 1,129,640 Texts
105,493 ImagesCervantes Virtual Spanish 19278 Texts
Filtering the Data
• Some items have very limited meta-data• Tried filtering these to improve the user-
experience– Discard all items that have no description, or
title < 4, or title repeated > 100 times– Discard all items that have no description, and title < 4, or title repeated > 100 times
• Results improved but not quite sufficient• Plans: Show users “interesting” items first
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Cutting Paths through DCH
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Leeds Town Hall
Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance
Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior
Background Information
Keywords
Search facets
Thesauri / Vocabularies
Similar Items
Similar Items
• Use Latent Dirichlet Allocation to automatically determine a set of 700 topics in the collection– Similarity calculated based on which topics an item
belongs to– Show the 25 most-similar topics to the user
• Plans:– Produce more diverse similar items– Limit based on meta-data (similar items in the from
the same source, ...)
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Keywords / Search Facets
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Thesauri / Vocabularies
• Existing meta-data is not consistent in use of thesauri / vocabularies
• Automatically map to a number of manually and automatically generated thesauri / vocabularies– LCSH, Wikipedia categories,
DBpedia ontology, Wordnet domains, Wordnet, LDA-based hierarchy, Wikipedia article hierarchy
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Background Information
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Painting of a fen landscape
A fen is one of the four main types of wetland, and is usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater
• Automatically link items to Wikipedia articles that are related
Creating & Sharing
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Leeds Town Hall
Leeds City Art Gallery – Entrance
Leeds City Art Gallery - Interior
Keywords
Search facets
Thesauri / Vocabularies
Similar Items
Add to WorkspaceCreate your own Path!
Evaluation
• Just finished the first round of full-scale evaluation (31 participants)– Thumbnails a must (bigger is better)– Contextual information appreciated– Search / Browse patterns seem to be different– Desires
• Paths that can branch• On-line help• Better integration
Digital Humanities Congress 2012, Sheffield, 6th – 8th September
Thank you for listening
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 270082. We acknowledge the contribution of all project partners involved in PATHS (see: http://www.paths-project.eu).
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