Supervisors info:
Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Πληροφορικής και Τηλεπικοινωνιών, Εθνικό Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Summary:
The current thesis focuses on the development of a web application for text annotation, relevant to cultural heritage. In more detail, the web application adds labels to words, groups of words, and entire units. The annotation, at the level of words, is achieved by finding links with the controlled vocabulary, while the annotation, at the level of sections, is a result of the set of tags of the annotated words of this section. This thesis uses as content, for the evaluation and the demonstration of the application, the material, which was created in the research project Pros-eleusis. The project aims to highlight aspects of the cultural heritage of Eleusis, through texts of ancient and modern life in the city.
Initially, for the development of the application, existing controlled vocabularies related to cultural heritage were studied, as well as, existing applications for annotating texts with general content. Then, after defining the technologies for the implementation of the application, its design and development began. The detailed description of the final application is part of this thesis, which concludes with the evaluation of the application by users, the conclusions that emerged from the users, as well as, the presentation of some ideas for future extensions of the application.
