Cultural heritage applications: some issues
- Associativity
- geographic context
- cultural context
- temporal context
- subject represented
- ...
- Multidisciplinarity
- history
- geography
- religion
- ...
- Different search needs:
- very specific (high precision)
- looking for loose or marginal references (high recall)
- different needs in different cases for the same user
- Different users:
- professionals
- practitioners
- researchers
- tourists (with different competences)
- ...
desire accessing the "Universe of
Information"
- Many possible associations among documents
- some links can lead to non interesting destinations
- lost in the hyperspace
- cognitive overhead
- Need for adaptive and
intelligent systems