@inproceedings{baf82e03e59943778e29cca34210ce00,
title = "CULTURA: A metadata-rich environment to support the enhanced interrogation of cultural collections",
abstract = "The increased digitisation of cultural collections, and their availability on the World Wide Web, has made access to these valuable documents much easier than ever before. However, despite the increased availability of access to cultural archives, curators still struggle to instigate and enhance engagement with these resources. The CULTURA project is actively addressing this issue through the development of a metadata-driven personalisation environment for navigating cultural collections and instigating collaborations. The corpus agnostic CULTURA environment also supports a full spectrum of users: ranging from professional researchers seeking patterns in the data and trying to answer complex queries; to interested members of the public who need help navigating a vast collection of resources. This paper discusses the state of the art in this area and the various innovative approaches used in the CULTURA project, with a special focus on how the underlying metadata helps facilitate its semantically rich environment.",
keywords = "Adaptation, CULTURA, Digital Humanities, Entity Extraction, Normalisation, Personalisation, Social Network Analysis",
author = "Cormac Hampson and Seamus Lawless and Eoin Bailey and Sivan Yogev and Naama Zwerdling and David Carmel and Owen Conlan and Alex O'Connor and Vincent Wade",
year = "2012",
month = nov,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1_23",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642352324",
series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
pages = "227--238",
booktitle = "Metadata and Semantics Research - 6th Research Conference, MTSR 2012, Proceedings",
note = "6th Research Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, MTSR 2012 ; Conference date: 28-11-2012 Through 30-11-2012",
}