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

After decades of digitization, the web hosts a large scale museum, consisting of millions of digital cultural objects. To balance the drawbacks of parsimonious search-centric interfaces, various approaches have been developed to enable also visual access to these collections, and to browse and explore the cultural richness of existing archives. This paper reviews information visualization approaches to digital cultural heritage collections, reflects on prominent arrangement principles and design choices for digital collection interfaces, and points out options for future research.

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