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Agora & Hermeneu-cs of Access Chiel van den Akker Lora Aroyo CATCH Event, 6 June 2014

Agora: Digital Hermeneutics @CATCH Mid-Term Event (6 June 2014)

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Agora  &  Hermeneu-cs  of  Access  

Chiel  van  den  Akker  Lora  Aroyo  

CATCH  Event,  6  June  2014  

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Photo:  M.  Jarnoux  André   Malraux,   The   Imaginary  Museum  of  World  Sculpture,  1953    

Le  Musée  Imaginaire  

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Hermeneu0c  Devices  

framing  centering  enlarging  decreasing  isolaKng    focusing  comparing    combining    manipulaKng  zooming  in/out  

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Online  Access  to  Cultural  Heritage  

•  requires  a  hermeneu9c  approach    •  contributes  to  the  conceptualizaKon  of  eHumani9es    

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Agora  Team:  Lora  Aroyo,  Guus  Schreiber,  Lourens  van  der  Meij,  Marieke  van  Erp,  Chiel  van  den  Akker,  Susan  Legêne,  Geertje  Jacobs,  Johan  Oomen  

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Digital  Hermeneu0cs  

•  a  theory  of  interpretaKon  •  is  concerned  with    

–  the  limits  of  automaKon  and  modeling    –  the  interacKon  of  people  and  technology  on  the  other  

           

“Digital  hermeneu9cs:  Agora  and  the  online  understanding  of  cultural  heritage”  In  proceedings  of  Web  Science  

Conference,  (ACM:  New  York,  2011)  

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Informa0on:    Museum  as  an  Inventory  of  the  World  

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Interpreta0on:    Museum  as  a  Place  to  Engage  with  the  World  

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four  dimensions    

•   informaKon  -­‐  interpretaKon  •   provision  -­‐  support  •   automaKc  -­‐  manual  •   lay-­‐users  -­‐  expert-­‐users    

Evalua0ng  Online  Access  to  Cultural  Heritage  

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provide  informa0on:  •  manual:  metadata,  wiki,  links    •  automaKc:  enKKes  and  event  extracKon,  data-­‐mining    

support  informa0on:  •  manual:  users  tag,  add  comments  and  links  •  automaKc:  search  &  browse  

“From  Informa9on  Delivery  to  Interpreta9on  Support:    Evalua9ng  Cultural  Heritage  Access  on  the  Web”  

In  proceedings  of  Web  Science  Conference  (ACM:  New  York,  2013)  

Evalua0ng    Applica0ons  

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provide  interpreta0on:    •  manual:  add  stories  or  links  between  objects  •  automaKc:  generaKon  of  narra9ve  relaKons  between  events  and  objects  

(e.g.  proto-­‐narraKves  in  Agora)  

support  interpreta0on:  •  manual:  favorites,  personal  spaces  •  automaKc:  supporKng    creaKng  (narra9ve)  relaKons  between  events  and  

objects  (e.g.  plot-­‐features  in  Decipher)  

“From  Informa9on  Delivery  to  Interpreta9on  Support:    Evalua9ng  Cultural  Heritage  Access  on  the  Web”  

In  proceedings  of  Web  Science  Conference  (ACM:  New  York,  2013)  

Evalua0ng    Applica0ons  

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Method  to  Model  Historical  Events  

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Enrichment  with  Events  

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“Digital  hermeneuKcs:  Agora  and  the  online  understanding  of  cultural  heritage”  in  proceedings  of  Web  Science  Conference,  (ACM:  New  York,  2011)  

Method  for  Historical  Narra9ve  Genera9on  

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Events Narrative

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h4p://agora.cs.vu.nl  

Agora  Event-­‐centered  Collec0on  Browser  

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Demo Datasets Rijksmuseum

– 159,860 Artworks – 71,851 Concepts – 73,374 Persons

Sound & Vision – 10,000 Videos – 172,000 Concepts

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Two  Concep0ons  of  eHumani0es  

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•  To  analyze  applicaKons  providing  online  access  to  cultural  heritage  •  To  reason  about  online  access  to  cultural  heritage  •  To  theorize  the  Web:  e.g.  limits  of  modeling,  human-­‐machine  

interacKon  

Framework  of  Digital  Hermeneu0cs  

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Get  (extract)  more  events  needs  to  be  scalable  &  automated  

 

Collect  data  on  perspec-ves  from  experts  &  lay  in  a  conKnuous  way  

 

Improve  visualiza-on  &  interac-on  extensibility  with  new  collecKons  

 

Deeper  

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Agora  &  Hermeneu-cs  of  Access  Chiel  van  de  Akker  &  Lora  Aroyo  

@agoraproject   h4p://agora.cs.vu.nl