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Value Identification in Multistakeholder Recommender Systems for Humanities and Historical Research: The Case of the Digital Archive Monasterium.net

Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, Bernhard C. Geiger, Georg Vogeler, Dominik Kowald

TL;DR

This paper offers an initial value identification of the multiple stakeholders that might be impacted by recommendations in Monasterium.net, a digital archive for historical legal documents, and discusses the diverse values and objectives of its stakeholders.

Abstract

Recommender systems remain underutilized in humanities and historical research, despite their potential to enhance the discovery of cultural records. This paper offers an initial value identification of the multiple stakeholders that might be impacted by recommendations in Monasterium.net, a digital archive for historical legal documents. Specifically, we discuss the diverse values and objectives of its stakeholders, such as editors, aggregators, platform owners, researchers, publishers, and funding agencies. These in-depth insights into the potentially conflicting values of stakeholder groups allow designing and adapting recommender systems to enhance their usefulness for humanities and historical research. Additionally, our findings will support deeper engagement with additional stakeholders to refine value models and evaluation metrics for recommender systems in the given domains. Our conclusions are embedded in and applicable to other digital archives and a broader cultural heritage context.

Value Identification in Multistakeholder Recommender Systems for Humanities and Historical Research: The Case of the Digital Archive Monasterium.net

TL;DR

This paper offers an initial value identification of the multiple stakeholders that might be impacted by recommendations in Monasterium.net, a digital archive for historical legal documents, and discusses the diverse values and objectives of its stakeholders.

Abstract

Recommender systems remain underutilized in humanities and historical research, despite their potential to enhance the discovery of cultural records. This paper offers an initial value identification of the multiple stakeholders that might be impacted by recommendations in Monasterium.net, a digital archive for historical legal documents. Specifically, we discuss the diverse values and objectives of its stakeholders, such as editors, aggregators, platform owners, researchers, publishers, and funding agencies. These in-depth insights into the potentially conflicting values of stakeholder groups allow designing and adapting recommender systems to enhance their usefulness for humanities and historical research. Additionally, our findings will support deeper engagement with additional stakeholders to refine value models and evaluation metrics for recommender systems in the given domains. Our conclusions are embedded in and applicable to other digital archives and a broader cultural heritage context.
Paper Structure (10 sections, 1 figure, 1 table)

This paper contains 10 sections, 1 figure, 1 table.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Charters as the Main Item Type for RecSys in Monasterium.net
  3. An Analysis of Monasterium.net Stakeholders and their Values
  4. Upstream Stakeholders
  5. Provider Stakeholders
  6. System Stakeholders
  7. Consumer Stakeholders
  8. Downstream Stakeholders
  9. Third-Party Stakeholders
  10. Conclusion and Future Work

Figures (1)

  • Figure 1: Example document: Recto side of a charter by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II to Babenberg Duke Frederick II containing the text of the Privilegium maius - itself a forged adaptation of the Privilegium minus by Frederick I -, confirming it, and extending its terms. Purportedly issued in Verona, Italy in June 1245, however forged in 1358/59. Its illegitimacy, identified by contemporaries and proven centuries later, had considerable historical and legal implications. Adapted from https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/detail.aspx?id=183092, re-published in https://www.monasterium.net/mom/AT-HHStA/AUR/AUR_1245_VI/charter.