paths at vsmm 2012
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Presentation given by Kate Fernie, MDR Partners at VSMM 2012, Milan (5 September) on Personalising AccessTRANSCRIPT
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Personalising Access
Kate Fernie, MDR Partners
Mark Stevenson, Paul Clough, Paula Goodale, Mark Hall, University of Sheffield,
Phil Archer, Konstantinos Chandrinos, iSieve Technologies
Andrea de Polo, Alinari 24 ORE,
Runar Bergheim, Avinet
Jillian Griffiths, MDR Partners
Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, University of the Basque Country
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Start
Every picture tells a storyEveryone has a story to tell
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Favourite objects
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Interesting places
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Memories and associations
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Everyone has a story to tell around the items they see in cultural collections or about
heritage places
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Digitisation
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lots of exciting stuff!
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The white box paradigm
We can do better than this!
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PATHS: project basics
• A STREP funded under the FP7 programme
• 36 months - 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2013
• 6 partners in 5 countries
• Research – Information access– User centred systems development
http://www.paths-project.eu
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Research vision
• Supporting users’ knowledge discovery
• Pathways/trails for navigation and exploration
• Personalisation
• Adding context
http://www.paths-project.eu
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Trails are not a new idea
• Museums and Galleries create themed exhibitions
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We can do more
• Natural Language Processing
• Information Extraction
• Similarity Calculation
• Link Finding
• Personalisation
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User Research
• Professional curators
• Interested amateurs
• Students
• Other potential users
User requirements gathering
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User behaviours
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Research findings
• Users like being lead to new things
• Want to see what other people have created
• Like the idea of a Path
• Want to make own discoveries
• Want to contribute their own ideas and content
• Want to be able to choose a route
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Research findings
• Users want to tag and comment
• Users want to communicate with Path creators and others
• Users want to clone and edit
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User behaviours
Functional specifications
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We Can Do More
Connections
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Connections
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps members, enjoying a swim on a beach in France, during World War I.
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Connections
“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy”
Churchill
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Connections
Quirky
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Making connections
Content processing and analysis
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Making connections
• Curator generated metadata items
• Liguistic processing: Point of speech tagging, lemmatization, multi-words
• Named entity classification: person, place, organisation
• Vocabulary matches
• Links between items: similarity measures
• Background links: Wikipedia, other articles
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The aim is to produce
Richer experiences when browsing
collections
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Implementation: Prototype 1
1. Item + narrative
2. Path navigation
3. Social features
4. Exploration starting points
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Implementation
1. Standard vocabularies
2. Visual topics
3. Explore by tag cloud
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Evaluation and testing
User trials summer 2012Informing the development of the next PATHS prototype
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Thanks for your attention!
http://www.paths-project.eu/eng/Prototype
Follow us on:•LinkedIn PATHS-Personalised Access to CH spaces•Facebook PATHS-Personalised Access to CH spaces •Twitter @PATHS_project
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The PATHS Homepage
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The Search section
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The Explore section
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The Paths section
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No matter where you are, the Workspace is always available
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Detailed demonstration: Register/Login
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Once you have Registered and Logged in you can see the Workspace AND My Paths
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Search and Add to Workspace
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Creating a path
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Creating a path
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Detailed demonstration: Creating a path
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Viewing your path
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Creating a path, re-ordering items on your path
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Publishing your path