Cultural and historical digital libraries dynamically mined from news archives

PAPYRUS DIT-PRJ-08-016

Status NOT active project
DISI role Partner
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2007-12-17
Start date 2008-03-01
End date 2010-09-01
SAP code 40101320

Project details

Project astract Past and existing work for digital recapturing and preservation of European cultural<br/>and scientific heritage has consumed significant effort and resources for the<br/>digitisation, characterisation, and classification of content. Digital libraries have thus<br/>emerged providing electronic access for many communities of users to available<br/>information of their discipline. What has never been targeted, however, is a digital<br/>library that draws content from one domain and makes it available to the users of<br/>another.<br/>Our project approaches this need by introducing the concept of a cross-discipline<br/>digital library engine. Papyrus intends to be a dynamic digital library which will<br/>understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline, look for content in a<br/>domain alien to that discipline and return the results presented in a way useful and<br/>comprehensive to the user. The consortium intends to showcase this approach with a<br/>specific pair of disciplines which can be illustrated as an apparent need and may<br/>prove to be an immediate exploitation opportunity even on its own. This proposed<br/>use case is the recovery of history from news digital content.<br/>To realise these objectives Papyrus brings together expertise from 6 EU countries,<br/>joining: 4 research organisations with specific expertise in knowledge management,<br/>artificial intelligence and semantic multimedia analysis; two research organisations<br/>experts in the history of science; two worldwide leaders in the provision of news; a<br/>coordinator experienced in realising such research and commercial projects and the<br/>world leader in the market of search engines.
Keywords Digital Libraries, Ontologies, Interoperability
Fundings 2200000 €
Partners
  • University of Athens
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • CINECA
  • Foundation for the History of Technology
  • DIT - UniTN
  • Athens Technology Center
  • Autonomy Systems Ltd
  • Agence France-Presse
  • Deutsche Welle

DISI Sub-project details

Fundings 262718 €
Manager Yannis Velegrakis