Abstract
Over the past years large digital cultural heritage collections have become increasingly available. While these provide adequate search functionality for the expert user, this may not offer the best support for non-expert or novice users. In this paper we propose a novel mechanism for introducing new users to the items in a collection by allowing them to browseWikipedia articles, which are augmented with items from the cultural heritage collection. Using Europeana as a case-study we demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for encouraging users to spend longer exploring items in Europeana compared with the existing search provision.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Event | Proceedings of the LaTeCH workshop held at EACL 2012 - Avignon, France Duration: 24 Apr 2012 → … |
Workshop
Workshop | Proceedings of the LaTeCH workshop held at EACL 2012 |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Avignon |
Period | 24/04/12 → … |