1. 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

2. Start Every picture tells a story Everyone has a story to tell

3. Favourite objects

4. Interesting places

5. Memories and associations

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

7. Digitisation

8. lots of exciting stuff!

9. The white box paradigm We can do better than this!

10. PATHS: project basics A STREP funded under the FP7 programme 36 months - 1 st January 2011 to 31 st December 2013 6 partners in 5 countries Research –Information access –User centred systems development http://www.paths-project.eu

11. Research vision Supporting users’ knowledge discovery Pathways/trails for navigation and exploration Personalisation Adding context http://www.paths-project.eu

12. Trails are not a new idea Museums and Galleries create themed exhibitions

13. We can do more Natural Language Processing Information Extraction Similarity Calculation Link Finding Personalisation

14. User Research Professional curators Interested amateurs Students Other potential users User requirements gathering

15. User behaviours

16. 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

17. Research findings Users want to tag and comment Users want to communicate with Path creators and others Users want to clone and edit

18. User behaviours Functional specifications

19. We Can Do More Connections

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

21. Connections “No battle plan survives contact with the enemy” Churchill

22. Connections Quirky

23. Making connections Content processing and analysis

24. 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

25. The aim is to produce Richer experiences when browsing collections

26. Implementation: Prototype 1 1.Item + narrative 2.Path navigation 3.Social features 4.Exploration starting points

27. Implementation 1.Standard vocabularies 2.Visual topics 3.Explore by tag cloud

28. Evaluation and testing User trials summer 2012 Informing the development of the next PATHS prototype

29. kate.fernie@mdrpartners.com Thanks for your attention! http://www.paths-project.eu/eng/Prototype Follow us on: LinkedIn PATHS-Personalised Access to CH spaces Facebook PATHS-Personalised Access to CH spaces Twitter @PATHS_project

30. The PATHS Homepage

31. The Search section

32. The Explore section

33. The Paths section

34. No matter where you are, the Workspace is always available

35. Detailed demonstration: Register/Login

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

37. Search and Add to Workspace

38. Creating a path

40. Detailed demonstration: Creating a path

41. Viewing your path

42. Creating a path, re-ordering items on your path

43. Publishing your path