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Agora Project Review

Posted on December 13, 2012 by mvanerp

Today, Agora is presenting the project results to the International Scientific Advisory Board of the CATCH program. The slides give a comprehensive overview of the project so far. AGORA Project: Final Review 2012 from Lora Aroyo

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Results first user studies: focus group and secondary school pupils

Posted on July 31, 2012 by mvanerp

Master’s student Ardjan van Nuland has finished his master’s project in the context of the Agora project that was focused on the user perception of the Agora platform and interface. He conducted interviews with people with a Dutch-Indies background in … Continue reading →

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Research Visit to Eurecom

Posted on July 31, 2012 by mvanerp

Two weeks ago Agora team member Marieke visited the Eurecom research lab in France to discuss ideas for entity recognition and event presentation. We have collaborated before with them on the organisation of the DeRiVE workshop and we thought to … Continue reading →

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Agora Slides Semantic Web Meetup NYC 31 May 2012

Posted on June 1, 2012 by mvanerp

On Thursday 31 May, Lora presented the Agora project at the Semantic Web Meetup NYC. Semantic Web Meetup NYC 31 May 2012 View more presentations from Lora Aroyo

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Agora User Studies Part 2: Secondary School Pupils

Posted on May 24, 2012 by mvanerp

One of the hypotheses we are investigating in Agora is whether enriching museum collections with event and narrative information aids the understanding and interpretation of museum objects and their historical context. One user group who could benefit from this is … Continue reading →

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Agora project at CMN’12

Posted on May 21, 2012 by mvanerp

Chiel will be presenting the Agora paper “Understanding Objects in Online Museum Collections by Means of Narrative” at the Computational Models of Narrative workshop in Istanbul, May 26-27. This workshop is co-located with LREC 2012. The program and list of … Continue reading →

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Agora User Studies Part 1: Eyewitnesses and Interested Lay People

Posted on May 7, 2012 by mvanerp

As Agora is going into its last year soon, we are working towards turning our current demo into the social platform that we envision in order to facilitate digitally mediated public history. To gain better insights into the social aspects … Continue reading →

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Slides Presented at First User Interview Session

Posted on May 7, 2012 by mvanerp

Here is an overview presentation (in Dutch) of the Agora project so far and our future plans. Agora User Interviews View more presentations from MvanErp.

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MW2012 Presentation online

Posted on April 15, 2012 by mvanerp

The slides of our Museums and the Web 2012 paper ‘Sharing Cultural Heritage the Linked Open Data Way: Why you should sign up‘ can be found here: Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way: why you should sign up … Continue reading →

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LDL2012 Recap

Posted on March 12, 2012 by mvanerp

Although there have been language processing tracks at semantic web conferences. The LDL2012 workshop was the first workshop at a linguistics venue in which linked data was specifically addressed, so it was a bit of a surprise how it would … Continue reading →

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