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        <article-title>Evaluation of Cultural Heritage digital collections: the DiLEO perspective</article-title>
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          <string-name>Giannis Tsakonas</string-name>
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          <string-name>Christos Papatheodorou</string-name>
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          <institution>Database and Information Systems Research Group, Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University</institution>
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          <country country="GR">Greece</country>
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        <kwd>Cultural Heritage</kwd>
        <kwd>Digital Library Evaluation</kwd>
        <kwd>Ontology</kwd>
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      <p>Cultural heritage collections are essential knowledge infrastructures that reflect
the different cultures and civilizations revealed in certain temporal and spatial
frames. They provide a solid representation of the historical background of
human communities, the development of their linguistic idioms, the blooming
or withering of their artistic expression, while in cases of international
aggregations, like the European Union, they constitute important instruments
for the social and ethnic cohesion. There are significant previous efforts that
focused on the development of cultural heritage collections, which contributed
on the fertilization of the successful creation, management and coordination of
cultural heritage management activities. Despite many of these efforts pursued
issues of quality and its assessment, there are still plenty of open topics in
regard to the evaluation of these collections. PROMISE Network of Excellence
addresses many of these topics based on three pillars, namely the adoption of
regular and thorough experimental evaluation activities, the collaboration and
re-use over the acquired knowledge-base and the automation of the
experimental evaluation process. In this speech, we introduce the Digital
Library Evaluation Ontology (DiLEO) that integrates the dominant concepts of
the digital library evaluation domain and their relations. DiLEO formulates a
concrete framework aiming to homogenize under a common language the tower
of Babel of evaluation approaches, methods, techniques and practices. The
presented ontology can contribute to the scope and aims of PROMISE NoE in
two large areas: (a) in the creation of knowledge bases around cultural heritage
evaluation, and (b) in the planning of forthcoming evaluation activities.</p>
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