Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections

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    Abstract

    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.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalDigital Humanities Quarterly
    Volume9
    Issue number1
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

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