1. From Information Delivery to Interpretation Support
Evaluating Cultural Heritage Access on the Web
Susan Legêne Chiel van den Akker
VU History department
VU Computer Science
Guus Schreiber Lora Aroyo
Marieke van ErpLourens van der Meij
Geertje Jacobs
Johan Oomen

3. Evaluation Framework for
Cultural Heritage Online
support
provision
information interpretation
manual
automated
User
generated
Expert
generated

4.
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Metsys
The
Madonna
and
Child

5. Storehouse of Information
provide information:
• manual: metadata, links (e.g. wikipedia)
• automatic: entities and event extraction,
mining
support information:
• manual: users tag, add comments and links
• automatic: search & browse

9. Enrichment with Events

10. Communication &
Interpretation Device
provide interpretation:
• manual: add stories, links between objects
• automatic: generating narrative relations
between events and objects (e.g. proto-
narratives in Agora)
support interpretation:
• manual: favorites, personal spaces
• automatic: supporting (narrative) relations
between events and objects

11. Events
Narrative

12. Take-Home Message
The evaluation framework enables us to
• analyze applications providing online access
to cultural heritage
• reason about online access to cultural
heritage
• theorize the web: e.g. limits of modeling,
human-machine interaction
• validate results from user studies and expand
our notion of digital hermeneutics in the
Agora Event-centered Collection browser
h,p://agora.cs.vu.nl
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tuned:
@agora