from finding to discovering

From Finding to Discovering

EuropeanaTech, Paris, February 12, 2015

Jaap Kamps

How to Empower Visitors and Curators?

Motivation• Current CH access tools are framed by web search tech

• privilege ultra-fast look-up search for facts, navigational needs

• mismatch in use-case!

• Need new/different tools supporting users

• to explore and experience,

• to learn and be amazed, and

• engage with the material from many different angles

• Although still fragmented these tools are emerging

• ground work is done,

• work on realizing the full potential of cultural heritage online

Four slogans…

#1Web ≠ Cultural Heritage

Searching for CH

Web Search CH Search

Find information Discover and learn

Clear information need Non goal directed search

Search outcome Search process

Navigational Exploratory

Fast search: 1 click Slow search: engagement

… …

#2Rage against the machine

Empower

Curator (back office)

Visitor (front office)

Take control Control over content++

Control over search trajectory

Beyond metadata From access to narratives

From finding to discovering

Beyond objects Tools to build digital narratives

Interaction builds own narratives

Beyond one perspective

Multi facetted/layered

information

Explore layer by layer

Reunite Digital content into gallery

Traditional + non-experts views

#3Embrace complexity

Flat text turned into richly annotated XML

Search and explore any level, both content and structure

From search to strategy: build your own tools

#4Art is all about interpretation

extensionalist (object) vs. constructivist (meaning)

Bring social aspects into the digital

Recommendation of content *and* other people

Wrap Up

• From Finding to Discovering

• Different use case → Different systems

• From “access” to enriched content

• Power to enrich/store/organize

• Empower users and curators

• Put visitors/curators in the driver’s seat

• Make other people’s trails explicit

Questions?

• Thank you to all collaborators:

• EU FP7: meSch project

• NWO CI: ExPoSe project

• Digging into Data: DiliPad project

• NWO CATCH: WebART project

• CLEF: Social Book Search Lab

• TREC: Contextual Suggestion Track