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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale
(ACHS’16)
22 June 2016
Collocated at JCDL 2016
Newark, NJ, USA
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS’16), 22
June 2016, Newark, NJ, USA.
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Organizing Committee:
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield
Paula Goodale, University of Sheffield
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua
Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Program Committee:
Alex O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Antoine Isaac, Europeana, Netherlands
Antonella Poggi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV), Spain
Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy
Julianne Stiller, Humboldt University, German
Mark Hall, Edge Hill University, UK
Max Kemman, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Owen Conlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Philip Webster, University of Sheffield, UK
Sonia Renade, The National Archives, UK
Stefano Ferilli, University of Bari, Italy
Tim Sherratt, University of Canberra, Australia
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
Vivien Petras, Humboldt University, Germany
Preface of the Proceedings of ACHS’16 the
First International Workshop on
Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale
Paul Clough Maristella Agosti Séamus Lawless
Paula Goodale School of Computer Science and
Department of Information
Information School Statistics
Engineering
University of Sheffield, UK Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
University of Padua, Italy
Tel: +44 114 222 2664 Tel: +353 1 896 1000
Tel: +39 049 827 7650
p.d.clough@sheffield.ac.uk maristella.agosti@unipd.it seamus.lawless@scss.tcd.ie
p.goodale@sheffield.ac.uk
These proceedings contain the full papers, short papers, and • Identify outstanding information access challenges and
posters selected for presentation at the First International understand their impacts on DL providers and users;
Workshop on Accessing Cultural Heritage at Scale (ACHS’16), a
workshop of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital • Review latest developments for enhancing information
Libraries (JCDL 2016) which is a major international forum
access in CH digital libraries;
focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical,
and social issues. • Work towards a view of future research needs.
The focus of the workshop is in line with the theme of the JCDL The scale, variety and availability of cultural heritage content,
2016 conference, that is “Big Libraries, Big Data, Big combined with the variety of user groups with respect to
Innovation”. In fact the workshop has explored challenges and background knowledge, specialist experience and needs is
opportunities, current and emerging, for accessing and actively challenging in the context of existing access methods. In
using collections managed in large digital libraries, with particular particular, one main concern was going beyond keyword search in
reference to cultural heritage collections of resources. large-scale cultural heritage digital libraries, in support of
All submissions were reviewed by two members of the exploration and discovery. In fact large-scale digital libraries are
international Program Committee. The accepted submissions are becoming ubiquitous within and between cultural heritage
two full papers, three short papers, and two posters. In all three (libraries, museums and archives) institutions, with increasing
types of submissions there are both technical and user-focused variety of content (media formats, metadata, and level of detail in
contributions, but all are concerned with the different aspects of text description), diverse user communities (from expert to
inventing new methods for giving the possibility to the users of novice) with differing, often poorly defined, and even
accessing digital cultural heritage resources experiencing a deeper unanticipated information needs, and widely varying interfaces to
understanding of the contents of the managed collections. support more exploratory information seeking. In these ‘big
libraries’ with challenges presented by both the volume and
The resource collections that are addressed in the submissions
cover a wide spectrum, ranging from the multimedia collections variety of content, we can also add the further challenges of
needing to support a variety of users and uses.
managed by Europeana to archival, library and linguistics
databases and digital libraries. The ACHS’16 workshop has built upon previous successful
One main goal of the workshop has been to assess the current workshops on information access issues in digital cultural
state-of the-art, to identify opportunities and establish future heritage, by the current organizers and colleagues:
research priorities, and we can say that has been reached thanks to • The SUEDL Workshop on Supporting Users
the spectrum of the experiences that were reported and because Exploration of Digital Libraries has been run on two
the workshop was a forum for knowledge sharing, discussion, and previous occasions, collocated at TPDL 2012 and TPDL
networking to: 2013 respectively.
• The ENRICH Workshop on Exploration, Navigation
and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage was
In Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Accessing Cultural collocated at SIGIR 2013.
Heritage at Scale (ACHS’16), June 22, 2016, Newark, NJ, USA.
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