Anyone know more about this? Nick P?
Is this trying to do what Creative Spaces in the UK failed to achieve with
Europeana content?
There's so much verbiage to read through, it's not exactly clear what it's
all about so could be accidentally missing something good.
Any ideas?
Tehmina.
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From: Jack Kirby <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 8 May 2013 09:07
Subject: FW: Invitation to participate in the EC funded PATHS project
To: [log in to unmask]
Dear all – please find below details of a research project in personalizing
access to digital cultural heritage collections; if anybody is interested,
please get in touch with Jill Griffiths [log in to unmask] .*
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Kind regards, Jack****
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Invitation to participate in the EC funded PATHS project
My name is Jill Griffiths and I am a consultant with MDR Partners carrying
out research as part of the European Commission funded PATHS project (the
PATHS project consortium is made up of 5 partners from 4 countries,
including a cultural heritage organisation, 2 universities and 2 technology
companies). PATHS is an exciting project developing a new online system for
personalising access to digital cultural heritage collections, enabling
expert and general users to create, share and follow ‘pathways’ through
collections, as a means for sense-making, learning and collaboration,
around themes, ideas and stories. We are not a commercial company, we are
researchers seeking to develop new ways to help people access cultural
heritage information digitally. I attach a paper which outlines the PATHS
system and approach in more detail.****
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We would like to invite cultural heritage organisations to participate by
allowing us to demonstrate our prototype system to a small number of
colleagues, and for feedback to be provided to us via a questionnaire and
discussions. The Prototype is using a test collection from Europeana. The
Project ran a number of demonstrations with our first prototype last year
(in the UK, Italy and Spain) and included medium and large sized museums,
photographic archives and general user groups. As a result of this feedback
we have further developed our system and are inviting cultural heritage
organisations to view this new Prototype. The UK demonstrations are being
coordinated by myself and I will be running these throughout June (possibly
into early July), we would work around a date and time that best suited
different organisations. Our partners at Sheffield University are also
doing some evaluation work in their computer labs and additional
demonstrations are taking place in Spain and Greece. The groups include a
range of people from the cultural heritage community and include general
users/visitors, students, and experts in both curation and interpretation
of collections.
The total activity will take about 1 hour, and would be conducted on
site. We would only need to have about 5-10 participants at each
organisation, preferably a mix of curators, archivists, education staff,
digital media, communications and gallery staff, (although if more were
interested in participating then we would be delighted to include them). It
will not be an onerous activity, in fact I think you would find it very
interesting and enjoyable. The demonstration sessions we are running are to
enable us to have feedback from real potential users (both experts and
visitors) so that we can develop PATHS into a system that is useful and
usable by the whole of the cultural heritage community.****
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If you would like to speak with my directly my number is 07816 170047. I
have also attached a PATHS leaflet for your information and you can also
find out more at the project website http://www.paths-project.eu/.****
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My best wishes to you, ****
Jill****
Reply to: Jill Griffiths [log in to unmask]
PATHS Website: http://www.paths-project.eu/
MDR Partners website: http://www.mdrpartners.com/****
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*More about PATHS
*PATHS (Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage Spaces) is funded by the
European Commission under FP7 Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
Programme, bringing together partners from academia, technology and
cultural heritage. The PATHS team hopes that you are able to participate in
this critical stage of our research, and looks forward to receiving your
response.
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