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Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Medieval Manuscript Research
Medieval manuscript research is a complex, fragmented, multilingual field of
knowledge, which is difficult to navigate, analyse and exploit. Though printed sources
are still of great importance and value to researchers, there are now many services
on the Web, some commercial and many in the public domain. At present, these
services have to be consulted separately and individually. They employ a range of
different descriptive standards and vocabularies, and use a variety of technologies to
make their information available on the Web. This chapter proposes a new approach to
organizing the international collaborative infrastructure for interlinking knowledge and
research about medieval European manuscripts, based on technologies associated with
the Semantic Web and the Linked Data movement. This collaborative infrastructure
will be an open space on the Web where information about medieval manuscripts can
be shared, stored, exchanged and updated for research purposes. It will be possible to
ask large-scale research questions across the virtual global manuscript collection, in a
quicker and more effective way than has ever been feasible in the past. The proposed
infrastructure will focus on building links between data and will provide the basis
for new kinds of services which exploit these data. It will not aim to impose a single
metadata standard on existing manuscript services, but will build on existing databases
and vocabularies. The article describes the architecture, services and data which will
comprise this infrastructure, and discusses strategies for making th challenging and
exciting goal a reality
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts. EVA 2013 Florence
Important Information Technology topics are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, protection of data, access to the content. Particular reference is reserved to digital images (2D, 3D) regarding Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, Palace – Monuments, Archaeological Sites). The main parts of the Conference Proceedings regard: Strategic Issues, EC Projects and Related Networks & Initiatives, International Forum on “Culture & Technology”, 2D – 3D Technologies & Applications, Virtual Galleries – Museums and Related Initiatives, Access to the Culture Information. Three Workshops are related to: International Cooperation, Innovation and Enterprise, Creative Industries and Cultural Tourism
Evaluating Digital Libraries: A Longitudinal and Multifaceted View
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The Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy (APIS) service
The Auroral Planetary Imaging and Spectroscopy (APIS) service, accessible
online, provides an open and interactive access to processed auroral
observations of the outer planets and their satellites. Such observations are
of interest for a wide community at the interface between planetology and
magnetospheric and heliospheric physics. APIS consists of (i) a high level
database, built from planetary auroral observations acquired by the Hubble
Space Telescope (HST) since 1997 with its mostly used Far-UltraViolet
spectro-imagers, (ii) a dedicated search interface aimed at browsing
efficiently this database through relevant conditional search criteria and
(iii) the ability to interactively work with the data online through plotting
tools developed by the Virtual Observatory (VO) community, such as Aladin and
Specview. This service is VO compliant and can therefore also been queried by
external search tools of the VO community. The diversity of available data and
the capability to sort them out by relevant physical criteria shall in
particular facilitate statistical studies, on long-term scales and/or
multi-instrumental multi-spectral combined analysis
From manuscript catalogues to a handbook of Syriac literature: Modeling an infrastructure for Syriaca.org
Despite increasing interest in Syriac studies and growing digital
availability of Syriac texts, there is currently no up-to-date infrastructure
for discovering, identifying, classifying, and referencing works of Syriac
literature. The standard reference work (Baumstark's Geschichte) is over ninety
years old, and the perhaps 20,000 Syriac manuscripts extant worldwide can be
accessed only through disparate catalogues and databases. The present article
proposes a tentative data model for Syriaca.org's New Handbook of Syriac
Literature, an open-access digital publication that will serve as both an
authority file for Syriac works and a guide to accessing their manuscript
representations, editions, and translations. The authors hope that by
publishing a draft data model they can receive feedback and incorporate
suggestions into the next stage of the project.Comment: Part of special issue: Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality
in Ancient Languages. 15 pages, 4 figure
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