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Presentation about the project and the second PATHS prototype given by Kate Fernie at the eCult dialogue day in September 2013.
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Personalised paths through digital library collec4ons
Kate Fernie, MDR Partners (Consulting) Ltd
eCult Dialogue Day, 19th September 2013, Dubrovnik
PATHS: project basics
• A STREP funded under the FP7 programme • 36 month project - 1/1/2011 to 31/12/2013 • 6 partners in 5 countries
• University of Sheffield • Universidad del Pais Vasco • i-sieve technologies Ltd • Asplan Viak Internet Ltd • MDR Partners • (Alinari 24 Ora Spa)
http://www.paths-project.eu
Introduction
Large quantities of digital cultural heritage material have become available online
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Museum exhibitions offer narratives organised by theme yet digital libraries are often limited to a simple keyword search
Introducing paths
We’re introducing the idea of paths into digital library collections
This is not a new idea – some online examples are Walden’s Paths, Trailmeme and Timelines
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We think we can do more
PATHS Research areas: • Information access: Methods for exploring and
navigating digital cultural heritage collections, including paths, topic maps, tag-clouds, hierarchical concept structures and recommender services.
• Natural Language Processing: analysing item metadata to improve indexing, enable use of ontologies, and generating links between items in the collection and with external background material.
• Educational informatics: adapting to individual learners in relation to being directed and being allowed the freedom to explore autonomously
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User-centred development
Users
What do people want from digital libraries / how might they use paths?
Gather user requirements and behaviours
Develop prototype system
Evaluate and test system with potential end users
http://www.paths-project.eu/eng/Resources/User-Requirements-Analysis
Prototype
http://explorer.paths-project.eu/
The content is from Europeana, enriched by the project team using NLP techniques
So what are paths?
Paths can be created by experts or any registered user on any topic or theme they can be linear or include branches and they can intersect with other paths
User interpretations of paths
Paths
Search history
Information seeking journey
Linked metadata
Starting point / way in
Through route
Augmented reality
Learning process
Transaction process
Hypertext trails
Encouraging exploration and enriching data
Process oriented
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Path following
Description by path creator
Continue on this path
Users can simply follow a path in a similar way to reading a narrative or viewing an exhibition.
Encouraging exploration of the collections
Tempting users to deviate from the path by exploring the links
Different user scenarios
Paths
Classroom activities
Leisure users
Local historians
Curated collections
Researchers
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• PATHS system incorporates tools to support different activity levels from path following to active exploration and use of the contents
Searching the collections
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The prototype includes keyword searches
Tools for browsing: thesaurus
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Browsing the collection as a tag cloud
Same taxonomy, different view
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Collection overviews: topic map
Same taxonomy different view
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User study
“Imagine you are a student who has been asked to create a path as part of a university assignment. You have been asked to use primary source materials to create a mini online exhibition suitable for a target group within the general public and/or school visitor categories. Your goal is to introduce a historical or art-focussed topic in a popular, accessible way, and to encourage further use and exploration of cultural heritage resources.”
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Creating paths
Users who have registered and logged into the system can add items to their workspace and create their own paths
Finding items
Users can find items to include in their path by any of the methods above – selecting from paths, search results or by browsing using the thesaurus, tag cloud or topic map
Workspace
You can add items to your workspace until you’re ready to start creating a path or editing one of your existing paths
Editing paths
This is an unpublished path that I’m still working on
Drag and drop from workspace
I’ve created a new branch by dragging and dropping an item from the workspace
Editing nodes
Users can add their own descriptions of the item nodes on a path which can include links to external resources, notes or exercises
Adding text nodes
Users can also add text only nodes to a path for example exercises, notes, discussion
User evaluation
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• Second round of evaluation trials just completed • User feedback on the prototype systems has been very
good: very positive feedback on path creation tools and search mechanisms
• About to start field trials and evaluation of a mobile app.
Technology and exploitation
• PATHS has a flexible modular architecture consisting of web-services, data storage and end-user interfaces
• Natural language processing of the metadata allows search capabilities to be enhanced
• Web services support users, path creation and editing, querying, interacting with topic hierarchies and a recommender service
• Components intended to be suitable for implementation in any digital library system
• Market study and exploitation this autumn
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Thanks for your attention!
http://www.paths-project.eu
Twitter @PATHS_project
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