{"id":467,"date":"2014-09-23T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T07:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/dh\/?p=467"},"modified":"2020-04-28T20:19:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:19:29","slug":"467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/2014\/09\/23\/467\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURA allows users to personalise history at Discover Research Night 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following from their success at the 2013 Discover Research Dublin night, the team behind the \u2018CULTURA\u2019 project (CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity) will once again be throwing open their doors to the public allowing users to \u2018personalise\u2019 their experience of Irish history on 26th September 2014.<\/p>\n

The CULTURA Virtual Research Environment (VRE) allows personalisation in a multitude of ways, including a recommendation of articles based on your current and previous user history. \u00a0This is not dissimilar to what you might already find on Google, often tailoring your searches based on previous searches.<\/p>\n

However, \u201cthe user is the most intelligent element in the system\u201d, explains CULTURA project coordinator, Owen Conlan. \u00a0\u201cThe CULTURA VRE allows the user to see this user-history (what CULTURA calls the \u2018user-model\u2019), and make changes to this by either \u2018pruning\u2019 out the items and articles you weren\u2019t really interested in, or enhancing the importance of the ones you were. \u00a0This will allow the users access to controls that will put them in the driving seat\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5238\"Discover Research Dublin at Trinity College Dublin is part of a European-wide EU Researchers\u2019 Night, where members of the general public, young and old, are invited to go into academic institutions across Europe to see just what researchers do. \u00a0Those who come along on Friday 26th September will be able use CULTURA to search through hundreds of letters, census records, photos and depositions from around Enniscorthy in Wexford during and just after the 1916 Rising. \u00a0Through a collaboration between TCD, the Military Archives and the National Archives, this vitally important and evocative part of Irish history will be available to explore and experience, and over time the team hope to expand this beyond Wexford to cover the whole island, providing an in-depth view of Ireland during one of its most turbulent eras.<\/p>\n

During the 2013 EU-Researchers\u2019 Night, TCD and the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group co-organised three sessions with secondary school teachers and students (aged between 15 and 17), from a range of Dublin schools. \u00a0Students completed a session on the VRE using the 1916 witness statements from Enniscorthy and narratives produced by experts in modern Irish history, followed by a period of semi-guided exploration of depositions taken in 1641 during the Rebellion against Cromwell\u2019s armies. \u00a0This event was a resounding success, with teachers and students alike responding with enthusiasm to the CULTURA Environment and the content presented to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of multi-disciplinary research is of huge importance to Ireland, and a personalised research space such as ours not only has commercial value, but simultaneously provides a new and deeper insight into the lives of those in Ireland around 100 years ago,\u201d reflects Owen. \u00a0\u201cAs we consider the events of the last century and their impact on today\u2019s Ireland, we hope to further show the relevance of digital tools for historical and humanities research\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following from their success at the 2013 Discover Research Dublin night, the team behind the \u2018CULTURA\u2019 project (CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity) will once again be throwing open their doors to the public allowing users to \u2018personalise\u2019 their experience of Irish history on 26th September 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,90,5,7,1],"tags":[26,27,30,13,25,16,29,28],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhcommunity","category-humanities","category-past-events","category-projects","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-communications","tag-cultura","tag-culture","tag-digital-humanities","tag-discover-research-dublin","tag-history","tag-research","tag-trinity-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}