Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections
Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections
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数字文化收藏的丰富接口
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发表时间:
2015
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0.4
通讯作者:
M. Whitelaw
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M. Whitelaw
Decades of digitisation have made a wealth of digital cultural material available online. Yet search — the dominant interface to these collections — is incapable of representing this abundance. Search is ungenerous: it withholds information, and demands a query. This paper argues for a more generous alternative: rich, browsable interfaces that reveal the scale and complexity of digital heritage collections. Drawing on related work and precedents from information retrieval and visualisation, as well as critical humanistic approaches to the interface, this paper documents and analyses practical experiments in generous interfaces developed in collaboration with Australian cultural institutions. Imagine yourself