Interacting with digital cultural heritage collections via annotations

Bringing Semantics into Historical Archives with Computer-aided Rich Metadata Generation

“…In connection with the ontology-based annotation research, projects and tools supporting collaborative semantic annotation are worth mentioning. For example, the Micropasts (crowdsourced.micropasts.org) (Bonacchi et al, 2019) and CULTURA (www.cultura-strep.eu) (Agosti et al, 2013) projects aimed at enabling users to participate in the annotation of historical documents, while the MultimediaN E-Culture project (multimedian.project.cwi.nl) (Schreiber et al, 2008) developed a web-based system for the semantic annotation of Cultural Heritage objects. The SAGE framework (Foley et al, 2017) is particularly interesting beecause, besides semantic annotation, introduces automatic techniques to support users in the annotation activity.…”

Enhancing Digital Heritage Archives Using Gamified Annotations

“…These collections were selected so as to have two different media formats on which they could test some of the key technologies. The former targeted text and the latter targeted images [26].…”

“…One of the objectives of CULTURA was to bridge the gap between the expert users, who were knowledgable on the relevant search parameters to access the digital content and the other users who had to be guided through good user interface and intuitive design in order to retrieve the content [26,49,50].…”

“…• Foundation 26 (v5.5.1.0) -a responsive front-end framework, which consists of HTML and CSS templates. This was used as a basis for styling the pages of the annotation engine such as the home, log in and sign up pages.…”

The user experience of historical world maps in web-based systems. A selection of fifteenth-century world maps of Afro-Eurasia as a showcase

“…For this reason, user satisfaction is an essential underlying factor that determines the quality of the user experience when using web-based historical world maps as it fulfils the primary power, cartographic carelessness, message, interests, and persuasive techniques of the maps (Press & Cooper, 2017). Consequently, positive user satisfaction have a higher quality of the user experience when using the web-based historical world maps as it can be used as a positive tool to persuade the audience to choose between maps (Agosti, 31 Conlan, Ferro, Hampson, & Munnelly, 2013Hampson, & Munnelly, 2013, e.g., if the primary user satisfaction is dependent on the persuasive techniques as an added feature that is included in the web-based historical maps system (Press & Cooper, 2017). This also includes features in the web-based historical maps help improve the user satisfaction experience, e.g., the selection of information, symbolism, shape, and the colours of the maps must be user satisfying to positively influence the quality of the when using web-based historical world maps.…”