Manuscript Collections: The Cowles Family Publishing Legacy in the Drake Heritage Collections

Manuscript collections: The Jeannette Dean-Throckmorton papers.

Generating Paths through Cultural Heritage Collections

Cultural heritage collections usually organise sets of items into exhibitions or guided tours. These items are often accompanied by text that describes the theme and topic of the exhibition and provides background context and details of connections with other items. The PATHS project brings the idea of guided tours to digital library collections where a tool to create virtual paths are used to ...

Dynamic Personalisation for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections

The number of digital collections in the cultural heritage domain is increasing year on year. Improved quality of access to cultural collections, especially those collections which are not exhibited physically is a key objective of the digitisation process. Despite some successes in this area, many digitised collections struggle to attract users or to maintain their interest over a prolonged pe...

Assigning Rights Statements to Legacy Digital Collections

Evaluating the success of vocabulary reconciliation for cultural heritage collections

The concept of Linked Data has made its entrance in the cultural heritage sector due to its potential use for the integration of heterogeneous collections and deriving additional value out of existing metadata. However, practitioners and researchers alike need a better understanding of what outcome they can reasonably expect of the reconciliation process between their local metadata and establi...