Abstract
Over the past years large digital cultural heritage collections have be-
come available, however access paradigms have not kept pace with this
development and are still primarily constructed around simple keyword
search. This works well for users familiar with the collections, but for new
users who are unfamiliar with the collection they present a significant
hurdle. The PATHS (Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces)
project addresses these issues by providing a novel framework for explor-
ing large digital cultural heritage collections, built around the metaphor
of a path through the collection. In this paper we present the initial user
requirements analysis that was used to determine what a path
is in the cultural heritage domain. From this we developed a conceptual model of path interaction, which was turned into a system design and implementation. Finally we present the evaluation of the resulting system and draw a number of conclusions as to what systems supporting exploration in digital cultural heritage collections must support to enable the users to satisfy their information needs.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2012 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |