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Digital hermeneutics: Agora and the online understanding of cultural heritage

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Chiel van den Akker,

Marieke van Erp,

Lourens van der Meij,

Jacco van Ossenbruggen,

Guus Schreiber,

Geertje JacobsAuthors Info & Claims

WebSci '11: Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/2527031.2527039

Published: 15 June 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Cultural heritage institutions are currently rethinking access to their collections to allow the public to interpret and contribute to their collections. In this work, we present the Agora project, an interdisciplinary project in which Web technology and theory of interpretation meet. This we call digital hermeneutics. The Agora project facilitates the understanding of historical events and improves the access to integrated online history collections. In this contribution, we focus on defining and modeling prototypical object-event and event-event relationships that support the interpretation of objects in cultural heritage collections. We present a use case in which we model historical events as well as relations between objects and events for a set of paintings from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection. Our use case shows how Web technology and theory of interpretation meet in the present, and what technological hurdles still need to be taken to fully support digital hermeneutics.

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Digital hermeneutics: Agora and the online understanding of cultural heritage
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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