Methods of personalising a collection of images using linking annotations

This paper reports the results of an ongoing project that deals with the development of a digital archive of drawings and illustrations of historic documents for research purposes, but also as a tool that can be used to disclose cultural heritage contents to the general public. The digital archive is currently used as a case study to provide innovative tools for researchers and scholars active in the preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage. In particular, we investigate the use of linking annotations to express the relations between images. We represent annotations with a hypergraph structure and we exploit this information to personalize the way images are presented to the final users.