Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections

Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections

Curation

The authors of this paper aim to show how interfaces and rich prospect browsers centered around the users of a specific archive can best help the needs of the primary users. The authors’ goal is to solve problems faced by other cultural heritage collections. “These problems are lack of accessibility, limited functionalities to explore the collection through browsing, and risk of less known content being overlooked.” Their focus centers on the Dutch Folktale Database which was designed for folktale experts, but actually appealed more for casual users of the general public. The authors try to present new interfaces in order to appeal to both sets of users. The author’s main point is that as cultural heritage collections are digitised, the people who consume the content expands to larger audiences and the interfacing has to reflect this from the beginning.
I believe this paper is a good addition to the archive because it involves an archive centered in the culture of another country. I think it also considers how media archives and physical archives are different. It considers the difference between these archives by platform and how the archive should be adjusted to suit the potential viewers. Keeping in mind how to benefit the original and expanded audience is important while building a successful platform.

de Jong, Ruud; Dolf, Trieschnigg; Everhardus, Iwe; Hiemstra, Djoerd; Meder, Theo; Smink, Nigel; Theune, Mariet

Digital Humanities Quarterly

2018-01-17

Alexis Cosio

Online Journal

Muiser, Iwe, Mariet Theune, Ruud de Jong, Nigel Smink, Rudolf Berend Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra, and Theo Meder. "Supporting the Exploration of Online Cultural Heritage Collections: The Case of the Dutch Folktale Database." Digital humanities quarterly 11, no. 4 (2018).