Supporting Exploration and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Materials: the PATHS Perspective

We discuss techniques to support information access to digital cultural heritage collections and, in particular, helping users explore and use the information they contain. We focus on a particular system called ‘PATHS’ – Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces) project, funded under the European Commission’s FP7 programme – that aims to support multiple user groups with varying degrees of domain knowledge through the provision of state-of-the-art functionalities, such as recommendations and visualizations.