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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00866
- Thesis Title
- Online Cultural Heritage: facilitating complex query making through Tangible User Interfaces
- Author
- Javier Pereda
- E-mail
- j.pereda AT ljmu.ac.uk
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- PhD
- Year
- 2016
- Number of Pages
- 329
- University
- University of Southampton
- Thesis Supervisor
- Graeme Earl
- Supervisor e-mail
- graeme.earl AT kcl.ac.uk
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Leif Isaksen, Yuanyuan Yin
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Web Science, Humanities, Art and Design
- Copyright Ownership
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- eprints.soton.ac.uk/420887/
- Keywords
- Tangible User Interfaces, Cultural Heritage, User Centred Design, Cultural Heritage, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Human Information Interaction
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This thesis presents a novel approach to reduce the complexity and overload of information in Cultural Heritage (CH) on the Web through the use of a Tangible User Interface (TUI). It discusses how the Web and its technologies such as the Semantic Web have changed the interoperability and reach that knowledge, data and information can have. These technologies have allowed to link knowledge across CH organisations and helped to reduce uncertainty about the information used to create it. Nevertheless, it is cumbersome for a vast majority of online users to find relevant content, due to the overload of information available and the complexity of its nature. This research argues that this is because two main factors. The first factor is the dependency of Graphical User Interfaces on the Web that hinder complex exploration and technologic engagement for general users. The second factor identifies a requirement for CH organisations to become part of an Online Cultural Heritage ecosystem engaged through an interactive system on the Web. As a result, CH organisations do not have a meaningful system for their users to explore their content. This research addresses these problems by [1] developing an understanding on how CH knowledge is integrated across different organisations and different ways in which users engage and manipulate it and, [2] exploring how a TUI can facilitate the production of complex queries that enables the user to engage with the conceptual and technical information used to describe the knowledge about OCH collections.