scholarly journals Towards a Semantic Graph-based Recommender System. A Case Study of Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 714-733
Author(s):  
Sara Qassimi ◽  
El Hassan Abdelwahed
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Collaborative Tagging ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Semantic Graph ◽  
System A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heritage Area

Research on digital cultural heritage has raised the importance of providing visitors with relevant assistance before and during their visits. With the advent of the social web, the cultural heritage area is affected by the problem of information overload. Indeed, a large number of available resources have emerged coming from the social information systems (SocIS). Therefore, visitors are swamped with enormous choices in their visited cities. SocIS platforms use the features of collaborative tagging, named folksonomy, to commonly contribute to the management of the shared resources. However, collaborative tagging uses uncontrolled vocabulary which semanti- cally weakens the description of resources, consequently decreases their classification, clustering, thereby their recommendation. Therefore, the shared resources have to be pertinently described to ameliorate their recommendations. In this paper, we aim to enhance the cultural heritage visits by suggesting semantically related places that are most likely to interest a visitor. Our proposed approach represents a semantic graph-based recommender system of cultural heritage places through two steps; (1) constructing an emergent semantic description that semantically augments the place and (2) effectively modeling the emerging graphs representing the semantic relatedness of similar cultural heritage places and their related tags. The experimental evaluation shows relevant results attesting the efficiency of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Enhanced Hybrid Recommender System using Social Friend Network

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 2023-2031
Author(s):  
Shalmali A. Patil ◽  
Reena Pagare
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hybrid Recommender

Lots of people employ recommender systems to diminish the information overload over the internet. This leads the user in a personalized manner to hit upon interesting or helpful objects in a huge space of possible options. Amongst different techniques, Collaborative filtering recommender system has pulled off great success. But this technique pays no heed towards the social relationship of the users. This problem gave birth to the Social recommender system technology which possesses the capability to recognize users likings and preferences and their social relationships. In this paper, we present novel method where we combine collaborative filtering recommender system with social friend network to use social relationships. For this, we have made use of data related to users which provides their interests as well as their social relationship. Our method helps to find the friends with dissimilar tastes and determine the close friends amongst direct friends of targeted user which has more similar tastes. This proposed approach resulted in more precise and realistic results than traditional system.

A Novel Strategy for Recommending Multimedia Objects and its Application in the Cultural Heritage Domain

2013 ◽  
pp. 274-290
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Albanese ◽  
Antonio d’Acierno ◽  
Vincenzo Moscato ◽  
Fabio Persia ◽  
Antonio Picariello
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Novel Strategy

One of the most important challenges in the information access field, especially for multimedia repositories, is information overload. To cope with this problem, in this paper, the authors present a strategy for a recommender system that computes customized recommendations for users’ accessing multimedia collections, using semantic contents and low-level features of multimedia objects, past behaviour of individual users, and social behaviour of the users’ community as a whole. The authors implement their strategy in a recommender prototype for browsing image digital libraries in the Cultural Heritage domain. They then investigate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, based on the users’ satisfaction. The preliminary experimental results show that the approach is promising and encourages further research in this direction.

scholarly journals Towards a folksonomy graph-based context-aware recommender system of annotated books

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Qassimi ◽  
El Hassan Abdelwahed ◽  
Meriem Hafidi ◽  
Aimad Qazdar
Keyword(s):  
Recommender System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Search Problem ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Real World Application ◽  
Collaborative Interactions ◽  
Partitioning Problem ◽  
Performance Results

AbstractThe emergence of collaborative interactions has empowered users by enabling their interactions through tagging practices that create a folksonomy, also called, classification of the shared resources, any identifiable thing or item on the system. In education, tagging is considered a powerful meta-cognitive strategy that successfully engages learners in the learning process. Besides, the collaborative tagging gathers learners’ opinions, thus, provides more comprehensible recommendations. Still, the abundant shared contents are mostly unorganized which makes it hard for users to select and discover the appropriate items of their interests. Thus, the use of recommender systems overcomes the distressing search problem by assisting users in their searching and exploring experience, and suggesting relevant items matching their preferences. In this regard, this article presents a folksonomy graphs based context-aware recommender system (CARS) of annotated books. The generated graphs express the semantic relatedness between these resources, i.e. books, by effectively modeling the folksonomy relationship between user-resource-tag and integrating contextual information within a multi-layer graph referring to a Knowledge Graph (KG). To put our proposal into shape, we model a real-world application of Goodbooks-10k dataset to recommend books. The proposed approach incorporates spectral clustering to deal with the graph partitioning problem. The experimental evaluation shows relevant performance results of graph-based book recommendations.

A Novel Strategy for Recommending Multimedia Objects and its Application in the Cultural Heritage Domain

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Albanese ◽  
Antonio d’Acierno ◽  
Vincenzo Moscato ◽  
Fabio Persia ◽  
Antonio Picariello
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Novel Strategy

One of the most important challenges in the information access field, especially for multimedia repositories, is information overload. To cope with this problem, in this paper, the authors present a strategy for a recommender system that computes customized recommendations for users’ accessing multimedia collections, using semantic contents and low-level features of multimedia objects, past behaviour of individual users, and social behaviour of the users’ community as a whole. The authors implement their strategy in a recommender prototype for browsing image digital libraries in the Cultural Heritage domain. They then investigate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, based on the users’ satisfaction. The preliminary experimental results show that the approach is promising and encourages further research in this direction.

TELLING THE TALE, TELLING THE NATION: TIV TALES, MODERNITY AND THE (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF NIGERIAN NATIONHOOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tsaaior
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Oral Cultures ◽  
High Literature

Scholarship negotiating African folktales and the entire folkloric tradition in Africa has always been constituted as harbouring fundamental lacks. One of these lacks is the supposed incapacity of oral cultures to produce high literature. However, it is true that folktales and other oral forms in Africa can participate actively in the social, political and cultural process. In this paper, we engage folktales told by the Tiv of central Nigeria and situate them within the dynamic of history, culture, modernity and national construction in Nigeria. The paper adopts a historicist and culturalist perspective in its interpretation of the folktales which were collected in particular Tiv communities. This methodological approach helps to crystallize the historical and cultural lineaments embedded in the people’s experiences, values and worldviews. It also constitutes a contextual background for the understanding of the folktales as they offer informed commentaries on social currents and political contingencies in Nigeria. It argues that though folktales belong to a pre-scientific and pre-industrial dispensation, they are part of the people’s intangible cultural heritage and are capable of distilling powerful statements which negotiate Nigerian modernity and postcolonial condition. The paper underscores the dynamism and functionality of folktales even in an increasingly globalised ethos.

Popularitas Tari Piring sebagai Identitas Budaya Minangkabau

Panggung ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indrayuda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Origin Area

ABSTRACT This article aims to explain the existence of Tari Piring dance as a culture identity of Minang- kabau people, both the people who live in the origin area and outside the area. Tari Piring dance is a traditional cultural heritage of Minangkabau people which is used and preserved by Minangkabau people in their life so that it becomes culture identity of Minangkabau people. As the identity of Minangkabau people, Piring dance is able to express attitudes and behaviors as well as the charac- teristics of Minangkabau people. The dance can serve as a reflection of social and cultural life style of Minangkabau society. Through Tari Piring performance, the outsider can understand Minangkabau people and their culture. Tari Piring, therefore, is getting more adhere to the social life of Minang- kabau people in West Sumatra and in the regions overseas. In the spirit of togetherness, Minang- kabau society preserves the existence of Piring dance as the identity and cultural heritage up to the present time. Keywords: Piring Dance, Minangkabau culture  ABSTRAK Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan keberadaan Tari Piring sebagai identitas bu- daya masyarakat Minangkabau, baik yang berada di daerah asal maupun di daerah peran- tauan. Tari Piring merupakan warisan budaya tradisional masyarakat Minangkabau yang digunakan dan dilestarikan oleh masyarakat Minangkabau dalam kehidupannya sehingga menjadi identitas budaya Minangkabau. Sebagai jati diri masyarakat Minangkabau, Tari Piring mampu mengungkapkan sikap dan prilaku serta karakteristik orang Minangkabau. Tari Piring dapat berperan sebagai cerminan dari corak kehidupan sosial budaya masyara- kat Minangkabau. Melalui pertunjukan Tari Piring, masyarakat luar dapat memahami orang Minangkabau dan budayanya. Oleh karena itu, sampai saat ini Tari Piring semakin melekat dengan kehidupan sosial masyarakat Minangkabau di Sumatera Barat maupun di daerah perantauan. Dengan semangat kebersamaan, masyarakat Minangkabau mampu mempertahankan keberadaan Tari Piring sebagai identitas dan warisan budayanya hingga masa kini. Kata kunci : Tari Piring, budaya Minangkabau

scholarly journals Digital Storytelling in Cultural Heritage: Audience Engagement in the Interactive Documentary New Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1193
Author(s):  
Anna Podara ◽  
Dimitrios Giomelakis ◽  
Constantinos Nicolaou ◽  
Maria Matsiola ◽  
Rigas Kotsakis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Specific Interest ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Social

This paper casts light on cultural heritage storytelling in the context of interactive documentary, a hybrid media genre that employs a full range of multimedia tools to document reality, provide sustainability of the production and successful engagement of the audience. The main research hypotheses are enclosed in the statements: (a) the interactive documentary is considered a valuable tool for the sustainability of cultural heritage and (b) digital approaches to documentary storytelling can provide a sustainable form of viewing during the years. Using the Greek interactive documentary (i-doc) NEW LIFE (2013) as a case study, the users’ engagement is evaluated by analyzing items from a seven-year database of web metrics. Specifically, we explore the adopted ways of the interactive documentary users to engage with the storytelling, the depth to which they were involved along with the most popular sections/traffic sources and finally, the differences between the first launch period and latest years were investigated. We concluded that interactivity affordances of this genre enhance the social dimension of cultural, while the key factors for sustainability are mainly (a) constant promotion with transmedia approach; (b) data-driven evaluation and reform; and (c) a good story that gathers relevant niches, with specific interest to the story.

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