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      A Review of Information Visualization Approaches and Interfaces
                   to Digital Cultural Heritage Collections

         Florian Windhager                                 Paolo Federico                               Eva Mayr
     Danube University Krems                          University of Technology                   Danube University Krems
           Krems, Austria                                  Vienna, Austria                            Krems, Austria
florian.windhager@donau-uni.ac.at                     federico@ifs.tuwien.ac.at                  eva.mayr@donau-uni.ac.at

                          Günther Schreder                                           Michael Smuc
                      Danube University Krems                                  Danube University Krems
                            Krems, Austria                                          Krems, Austria
                  guenther.schreder@donau-uni.ac.at                          michael.smuc@donau-uni.ac.at


                                                                       http://www.europeana.eu, http://trove.nla.gov.au/, or
                                                                       http://dp.la/) have emerged, which aggregate cultural
                          Abstract                                     heritage objects across institutions, domains, and
                                                                       countries, and make the web the largest museum ever
      After decades of digitization, the web hosts a                   around. Yet the situation is known to be rather bleak,
      large scale museum, consisting of millions of                    when it comes to actually accessing the collected riches
      digital cultural objects. To balance the                         – not only, but especially for non-expert users, who
      drawbacks of parsimonious search-centric                         often have no idea what to expect in the digital
      interfaces, various approaches have been                         collection. The rampant problems with the widely
      developed to enable also visual access to these                  dominant search box approach to cultural object
      collections, and to browse and explore the                       collections have been thoroughly exposed and
      cultural richness of existing archives. This                     discussed [BOP82, DCW11, THC12, Whi15].
      paper reviews information visualization                          Whitelaw retells the typical search-based visit to online
      approaches to digital cultural heritage                          collections as a bizarre purchase order situation, where
      collections, reflects on prominent arrangement                   the widely dominant information retrieval paradigm
      principles and design choices for digital                        over-successfully reduces data complexity (which in
      collection interfaces, and points out options                    the CH context is often appreciated as its own reward),
      for future research.                                             thus throwing the baby out with the bath water. Rather
                                                                       than throwing the collection doors open and offering
 1. Introduction                                                       multiple ways of access, visitors have to enter a drab
                                                                       (search box) lobby, which asks them “yes, what?” –
 From things making them smart (like tools,                            and urges them to come up with demands towards the
 achievements, or information artifacts), to things lifting            unknown [Whi15].
 them up (art and entertainment) – cultures collect                       In contrast, more generous interfaces open up the
 things. To share and preserve them for future                         digital archives’ walls, tear down the drab lobbies, and
 generations, populations draw artful or useful objects                offer multiple ways in, where they foster free-roaming,
 (like texts, images, material objects, concepts, music,               browsing and exploring, and support rich,
 or films) together. These cultural heritage (CH)                      serendipitous discoveries [DCW11]. We build on the
 collections (libraries, galleries, museums, archives)                 multiply proven assumption, that information
 contain notable works and objects – as well as                        visualization (InfoVis) methods and techniques can
 associated knowledge and data.                                        strongly support such generous approaches. Yet
    With developing media technologies and                             according to our best knowledge, no systematic
 collaborations, large digital meta collections (e.g.                  collection of InfoVis approaches to CH collections has
                                                                       been undertaken until now. To close this gap, we
 Copyright © by the paper’s authors. Copying permitted only for
 private and academic purposes.
                                                                       review related work and outline a possible
                                                                       classification of InfoVis approaches and interfaces for
 In: W. Aigner, G. Schmiedl, K. Blumenstein, M. Zeppelzauer (eds.):    digital CH collections, which aims to consolidate the
 Proceedings of the 9th Forum Media Technology 2016, St. Pölten,
 Austria, 24-11-2016, published at http://ceur-ws.org
                                                                       growing research field and to inform future projects.
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         Figure 1: Common cultural object types (left) and common dimensions of object metadata (right).

 2 Design Patterns for Interfaces to Digital                   should not be underestimated as a major factor for the
                                                               overall success of any arts and culture mediation
 Object Collections                                            initiative.1 We focus on the question how to visualize
 If museums, libraries, or archives are the original           collection overviews and assemble relevant design
 three-dimensional display spaces for cultural object          patterns in the following sections, which will provide
 collections, their spatial arrangements are generated by      the categories for a more systematic recollection of
 a minimum of standard layouts: parallel tableaus on           InfoVis interfaces further down.
 museum floors or in showcases, and linear
 arrangements along walls or shelves, ordered mostly           2.1 Close-ups, Previews and Collection Overviews
 due to the metadata dimensions of date, style, artist, or
 place of origin. Procedures of digitization extend            Cultural object collections commonly contain much
 cultural collections (complementing physical objects          more objects than could be displayed in a parallel
 with digital ones) – and put their visual arrangement on      close-up perspective on a screen. This challenge is
 digital display spaces up for renegotiation. For that         commonly taken on by the design of macroscopic
 purpose, all available metadata dimensions could be           collection overviews – and their connection to vertical
 utilized – and furthermore encoded into novel                 drill down and horizontal browsing options on demand
 collection representations.                                   [DCW11, GMPS00].
     Figure 1 illustrates the multitude of possible digital        As a review of interfaces shows, collection
 object types (left), and a selection of prominent             overviews are usually following one of three design
 metadata dimensions (right), with the latter being            options: Whole object collections could be represented
 usually formatted due to a given documentation                as i) multitudes of miniature previews (thumbnails), or
 standard [Bac02]. This two-sided representation also
 mirrors the common dual nature of digital ob jects,           1
 duplicating an object into a realistic image of the object         Well knowing that the remote exploration of cultural
 (provided by a spatial layout-preserving scientific               collections on screens still “doesn’t compare to being
 visualization procedure), and a (semi)structured, multi-          there“ [RHQ14], digital interfaces mostly strive to augment
 dimensional metadata entry. While the realistic image             and enrich traditional in situ-interaction with collections.
                                                                   This includes the design of approaches i) to provide
 allows to study cultural objects in a close up-
                                                                   macroscopic perspectives on high-volume collections in
 perspective, their accessibility in a larger collection is
                                                                   which patterns and relations become visible, ii) to extend
 either provided by a search functionality – or by
                                                                   visitors’ working memory to grasp large, complex datasets
 alternate, more generous approaches to interface                  often for the first time, iii) to add to richer, contextualized
 design, including a wide variety of InfoVis images and            observations through linked data dimensions, or iv) to
 methods. With interfaces thus taking over the role of             reduce collectors’ and curators’ biases and to facilitate
 museums or exhibition halls, their design determines              more inclusive representations, suited for a broader user
 an online collections’ accessibility and impact, and              group [Sul13, GMD15].




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 as ii) multitudes of abstracted visual marks only (e.g.         features traditional ways of (multi)linear aggregations,
 dots representing objects), whose arrangement                   the center right column lists methods for the visual
 principles are laid out in section 2.2. As a third option       encoding of spatial (i.e. cross-sectional, non-temporal)
 (iii), overviews can abstract from displaying separated         metadata aspects. Here “spatial” not only refers to
 objects, but encode selected object attributes into the         geographic aspects of metadata, but also to their
 visual variables of various diagrams (cf. 2.2.5), which         distributions in algebraic or vector spaces.
 opens up the field for the use of a wide spectrum of
 InfoVis methods, that can support further collection            2.2 Encoding of Spatial Data Dimensions
 exploration too.
      From a user and interaction perspective, overviews         Following a distinction by Kerracher et al. [KKC14],
 feature as natural starting or entry points to a                we distinguish methods of encoding spatial data
 collection. They provide initial orientation, and               dimensions from encoding methods for temporal (i.e.
 commonly enable further operations of zooming,                  longitudinal) data aspects, which we consider to play a
 filtering, and browsing to study details and close-ups          crucial role for the omnipresent time-orientation of CH
 on demand. While these transitions between micro and            collection data. Distributed across both sides of this
 macro perspectives pose a central challenge for                 distinction, we refer to the most prominent traditional
 interaction design, we turn to prominent arrangements           spatial arrangement principle of object collections as
 for macroscopic overviews first. As mentioned above,            (multi)linear arrangements (2.2.1), which are also
 this is where various dimensions of object metadata             frequently chosen for digital collection interfaces.
 (like place of origin, date of origin, artist, topics, or
 styles) come into play.                                         2.2.1 Lists, Slideshows, Grids and Mosaics
      Figure 2 shows prominent arrangement principles            Mirroring the sequential arrangements in physical
 for collection overviews: While the center left column          exhibitions along walls or shelves, vertical lists or




         Figure 2: Principles for the visualization of cultural collections, from close-ups (left), to (multi-)linear
            aggregations (center left) to spatial (center right) and temporal (right) visual encoding methods.




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 horizontal slideshows arrange object collections in an         charts [IF:SCE], ring charts [IF:DDBV], scatter plots
 unilinear sequence of previews on computer screens             [Man09, ABO12, IF:CG], and many more.
 [IF:HTA]. As multilinear arrangements, grids and                   These different diagrams again could be integrated
 mosaics arrange previews in multiple rows, to raise the        into multiple coordinated views by CH collection
 item-screen-ratio (Fig. 2, center left). In contrast to        dashboards [UTA10]. As an interesting crossover
 physical hangings, the guiding aspect for (multi)linear        approach, diagrams could also be synthesized from
 arrangements can often be freely chosen amongst                object previews, allowing for seamless micro-macro
 existing metadata dimensions, so that either date of           transitions [IF:PVWF].
 origin, alphabetical sequence, or even user metrics
 (like item popularity) determine the visible sequence of       2.3 Encoding of Temporal Data Dimensions
 objects on screens [IF:GCI]. Furthermore, grids and
 mosaics can be dynamized, so that tiles represent              While maps, networks, set and other diagrams provide
 object categories or subcollections and change their           specific insights into spatial data aspects and
 content over time, to enable also passive contemplation        distributions, they initially offer static images for
 without clicking and scrolling [Whi15, para 39]. Going         aggregated data only. Yet with temporal aspects (like
 beyond (multi)linear arrangements, several InfoVis             date of origin) playing a crucial role in the domain of
 methods support the visual encoding and exploration            CH data, most interfaces have to encode temporal
 of spatial (non-temporal) data aspects for whole               information too.
 collections.
                                                                2.3.1 (Linked) Timelines
 2.2.2 Geographic Maps
                                                                One prominent option is to represent time linearly,
 As place of origin counts among the most frequently            which is done with linear timelines as singular views,
 documented data dimensions of cultural objects and             or with linked timelines, usually implemented as
 artifacts, geographic maps often serve as a                    coordinated temporal view in addition to spatial
 visualization method to show the spatial distribution of
                                                                representations [Kra16, IF:DGB, IF:HTA, IF:MOTW,
 artifacts’ origins [BGSvdB14, IF:DGB, TO:GBDE,
 TO:PAL, TO:VS].                                                IF:NL, IF:PAN, TO:VS].

 2.2.3 Network Diagrams                                         2.3.2 Animation

 As for relational data (e.g. influences, references, inter-    Further options for encoding temporal data aspects
 artifact relations) network diagrams allow users to            build on the abovementioned spatial visualizations and
 explore the proximities and distances of artifacts or          add temporal information in a hybrid, spatiotemporal
 cultural actors in relational or topological spaces            way. Among these, animation is frequently used,
 [HSC08, IF:DDBV, IF:ECB, IF:IA, IF:HG, IF:EDG,                 mapping time to time [IF:DGB, IF:PAN].
 TO:PAL].
                                                                2.3.3 Superimposition
 2.2.4 Set Diagrams
                                                                Superimposition approaches merge multiple temporal
 Given different thematic or stylistic classifications of       layers or snapshots into one visualization, with
 cultural artifacts, set diagrams or treemaps offer             temporal data aspects often being distinguished by
 insights into categorically and often also hierarchically      different colors [BGSvdB14], or visualization of
 structured object metadata constellations [XEJJ14,             movement trajectories [TO:NL].
 UPM12, IF:PAN].
                                                                2.3.4 Space-Time Cube
 2.2.4 Other Diagrams
                                                                Space-time cube representations build on 2D planes of
 When overviews abstract from single objects and focus          encoded spatial data dimensions (like maps or
 on data distributions in different metadata dimensions,        networks), and map time to an additional spatial
 a wide variety of further InfoVis diagrams can provide         dimension, i.e. the orthogonal z-axis. Cultural object
 overview on selected collection aspects, including area        collections thus arrange as characteristically shaped 3D




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 point clouds, according to various spatio-temporal           [Dru13]. Due to the relevance of this design principle,
 layouts [Kra05, WMS*16].                                     the following collection primarily takes approaches
                                                              and interfaces into account which have been
 2.4 Multi-Method Interfaces                                  implementing a multi-method approach.
 As the assembly of approaches and interfaces in table 1
 shows, multiple spatial encoding methods have already        3 Assembling Information Visualization
 been implemented in the CH data domain – often also
 as multi-method interfaces to enable the combination
                                                              Approaches to Digital CH Collections
 of different exploratory views on the data. The same         Table 1 provides an overview of prominent InfoVis
 holds true for different temporal encoding methods: It       approaches to digital CH collections. Interfaces are
 is well known that different temporal encoding               classified and specified according to four main
 methods show different strengths and weaknesses. Due         categories. While the first two categories make the
 to this reason, advanced InfoVis interfaces increasingly     chosen spatial and temporal encoding methods visible
 combine multiple temporal and spatial encoding               (cf. 2.2 und 2.3), the third column specifies the focus
 techniques, to compensate their drawbacks and add up         of interest, which predominantly is either a certain type
                                                              of cultural objects, or a focus on cultural actors (FCA),
 their complementary benefits [KKC14]. This equals
                                                              or a focus on cultural topics or styles. The fourth
 the provision of multiple access points and overviews        column points out whether the approach is of
 [THC12], which form complementary composites,                conceptual and prototypical nature, or whether it
 revealing different “parallax” views of a collection         provides an open, web-based interface [IF:XYZ] or a

      Table 1: Information visualization approaches and interfaces to digital cultural object collections, ordered
      according to their chosen method of spatial encoding, temporal encoding, entity focus, and type of project.




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 tool [TO:XYZ], with which external DH collection             indispensable as a medium for knowledge
 data could be visually explored [cf. Pos16].                 communication. Despite restricted budgets of local
                                                              collectors and institutions, efforts for digitization and
 3.1 Interpretation                                           dissemination will continue, as will the development of
 While looking at single approaches helps to specify          web-based interfaces.
 their implemented combination of methods, parsing of             From an InfoVis perspective, we consider the field
 columns helps to explore the prominence of encoding          of CH data, users and tasks, to be a specifically
 methods or object types. With regard to the overall          productive one, revolving around grand design
 distribution, well-established InfoVis techniques can        challenges. While CH data is often characterized by
 be identified, as well as structural holes, which might      massively heterogeneous and time-oriented data
 deserve closer attention by future interface design and      complexity, its audiences approach it with
 research. Exemplarily, the distribution of temporal          heterogeneous, underspecified tasks [MFM*16].
 encoding methods shows a dominant use of (linked)            Besides the consideration of well-known principles of
 timelines, which again are known to evoke split              graphical excellence, such casual users require also
 attention effects [AS05]. To reduce cognitive, load          more aesthetics-oriented, entertaining approaches. In
 more spatio-temporally integrated encoding techniques        contrast to principles of parsimonious design and
 like space time-cube representations could be tested.        complexity minimization, the preservation of aesthetic
                                                              complexity and diversity matter in the CH domain, and
                                                              non-conclusive explorations provide their own reward.
 3.2 Limitations
                                                              Therefore, the value of methods supporting horizontal
 Aiming for the consolidation of the research field and       browsing, multiple access points and serendipitous
 for orientation of future approaches, we are still aware     insight creation is ranging high. This makes CH data a
 of two obvious limitations. As the interaction with          challenging research field, expanding and enriching the
 ‘cultural object collections’ is investigated in multiple    scope of consolidated playing fields for InfoVis
 academic domains, the current review is far from             research far beyond expert-oriented professional
 exhaustive. Yet by highlighting and comparing recent         applications.
 works and developments, we hope to lay ground for a
                                                                  Furthermore, we expect new options for interface
 more systematic and critical discussion – as well as for
 their future enrichment and refinement.                      design to emerge from the expansion and pervasion of
       Furthermore, we consider the chosen categories         linked data in the CH realm [KAR15, IF:CS], as well
 of classification to be relevant from an InfoVis             as the utilization of user data, which will open up new
 methods perspective, but are aware of possible other         ways to weigh, highlight, recommend, and tailor
 foci of attention. As such we exemplarily consider           interfaces for general audiences and specific user
 interaction and navigation techniques to provide             groups alike.
 productive categories or further analysis, as well as a          From a systematic point of view – which might be
 wide variety of ‘humanistic’ user experience and             most relevant because of its didactic implications – we
 design principles [Dru13, DCW12, Whi15], which               hope for a continued discussion and consolidation
 could help to shape the focus on relevant DH interface       process to accompany the outlined developments. We
 functions and features with even more precision.             consider such macroscopic reflections not only to be
                                                              relevant for integrating the state of the art on academic
 4. Conclusions and Outlook                                   grounds (informing new directions and approaches),
                                                              but also for introducing visitors to the workings of
 We presented a review of InfoVis approaches and
                                                              their new online museums and archives. In contrast to
 interfaces to digital CH collections, and arranged
                                                              traditional encounters with culture collections, their
 existing work by the means of a categorical
                                                              experiences and learnings will also depend on their
 framework, which we submit for critical examination
                                                              ability to comprehend and master the powerful (re-)
 and collective refinement.
                                                              arrangement, encoding and interaction techniques,
     We expect the field of CH collection visualization
                                                              which new interfaces are already providing us with.
 to further develop and diversify – not least due to the
 fact that the world wide web renders itself ever more




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