Unfolding Cultural, Educational and Scientific Long-Tail Content in the Web

This project poster introduces the recently started EEXCESS project, which aims at Enhancing Europes eXchange in Cultural Educational and Scientific Resource. Europe has digitised vast amounts of cultural, scientific and educational content like for example scientific research, historical sound recordings, images of sculptures, films and sheet music. However, since content dissemination on the Web is driven by a small number of large central hubs like social networks or search engines, this cultural and scientific treasures has hardly been recognized by the general public or utilized in scientific and educational processes. EEXCESS aims to develop personalized and contextualized recommendation technologies to augment existing content dissemination channels (e.g. social media) and content creation process (e.g. blogging) for distributing high-quality educational, scientific and cultural content. In this project poster we present the underlying idea and related work with focus on user modeling and personalized, context-aware recommendation.