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

Start

Every picture tells a storyEveryone has a story to tell

Favourite objects

Interesting places

Memories and associations

Everyone has a story to tell around the items they see in cultural collections or about

heritage places

Digitisation

lots of exciting stuff!

The white box paradigm

We can do better than this!

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

Research vision

• Supporting users’ knowledge discovery

• Pathways/trails for navigation and exploration

• Personalisation

• Adding context

http://www.paths-project.eu

Trails are not a new idea

• Museums and Galleries create themed exhibitions

We can do more

• Natural Language Processing

• Information Extraction

• Similarity Calculation

• Link Finding

• Personalisation

User Research

• Professional curators

• Interested amateurs

• Students

• Other potential users

User requirements gathering

User behaviours

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

Research findings

• Users want to tag and comment

• Users want to communicate with Path creators and others

• Users want to clone and edit

User behaviours

Functional specifications

We Can Do More

Connections

Connections

Women's Auxiliary Army Corps members, enjoying a swim on a beach in France, during World War I.

Connections

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy”

Churchill

Connections

Quirky

Making connections

Content processing and analysis

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

The aim is to produce

Richer experiences when browsing

collections

Implementation: Prototype 1

1. Item + narrative

2. Path navigation

3. Social features

4. Exploration starting points

Implementation

1. Standard vocabularies

2. Visual topics

3. Explore by tag cloud

Evaluation and testing

User trials summer 2012Informing the development of the next PATHS prototype

kate.fernie@mdrpartners.com

Thanks for your attention!

http://www.paths-project.eu/eng/Prototype

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The PATHS Homepage

The Search section

The Explore section

The Paths section

No matter where you are, the Workspace is always available

Detailed demonstration: Register/Login

Once you have Registered and Logged in you can see the Workspace AND My Paths

Search and Add to Workspace

Creating a path

Creating a path

Detailed demonstration: Creating a path

Viewing your path

Creating a path, re-ordering items on your path

Publishing your path