Authors:
Annamaria Goy
1
;
Cristina Accornero
2
;
Dunia Astrologo
3
;
Davide Colla
1
;
Matteo D’Ambrosio
3
;
Rossana Damiano
1
;
Marco Leontino
1
;
Antonio Lieto
1
;
Fabrizio Loreto
2
;
Diego Magro
1
;
Enrico Mensa
1
;
Alice Montanaro
4
;
Valeria Mosca
3
;
Stefano Musso
2
;
Daniele P. Radicioni
1
and
Cristina Re
4
Affiliations:
1
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Torino and Italy
;
2
Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università di Torino, Torino and Italy
;
3
Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci, Torino and Italy
;
4
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy, Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci, Torino and Italy
Keyword(s):
Intelligent Information Systems, Semantic Web, Multidisciplinary Approach, Digital Humanities, Historical Archives.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
;
Data Engineering
;
Digital Libraries
;
Intelligent Information Systems
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
In this paper we present the mid-term results of the PRiSMHA project, aimed to contribute in building a digital “smart archivist”, i.e., a web-based system providing an innovative access to historical archives. Such a system is endowed with a semantic layer over existing archival metadata, including computational ontologies and a knowledge base, containing a formal description of the content of the documents stored in the archives. The paper focuses on the fruitful synergies employed to reach its goal. In particular, it explains the steps of the “spiral” process implemented for creating a full-fledged formal semantic model, through the interaction between computer scientists, historians, and archivists. The paper also presents some “core side-effects” of this process: an analytical card for each document has been produced, all selected documents have been digitized, OCR-ized (when possible), and linked to a record on the archival platform. This experience enabled us to define a virtu
ous procedural model, from the paper documents up to the digital “smart archivist”, based on a close collaboration between universities and cultural and historical institutions.
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