Shapes of Time: Visualizing Set Changes Over Time in Cultural Heritage Collections

Abstract
In cultural heritage collections, categorization is a central technique used to distinguish cultural movements, styles, or genres. For that end, objects are tagged with set-typed metadata and other information, such as time of origin. Visualizations can communicate how such sets organize a collection - and how they change over time. But existing interfaces fall short of a) representing an overview of temporal set-developments in an integrated fashion and b) of representing the set elements (i.e., the cultural objects) themselves to be contemplated on demand. Against this background, we introduce two integrated visualization techniques - a superimposition and a space-time cube view - depicting the development of sets and their elements over time. We share first results from a qualitative evaluation with casual users and outline open challenges for future research.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:eurp.20191142
, booktitle = {
EuroVis 2019 - Posters
}, editor = {
Madeiras Pereira, João and Raidou, Renata Georgia
}, title = {{
Shapes of Time: Visualizing Set Changes Over Time in Cultural Heritage Collections
}}, author = {
Salisu, Saminu
and
Mayr, Eva
and
Filipov, Velitchko Andreev
and
Leite, Roger A.
and
Miksch, Silvia
and
Windhager, Florian
}, year = {
2019
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-088-8
}, DOI = {
10.2312/eurp.20191142
} }
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