Abstract

We analyse the requirements for an advanced semantic support of users—building historians and architects—of a multi-volume encyclopedia of architecture from the late 19th century. Novel requirements include the integration of content retrieval, content development, and automated content analysis based on natural language processing.

We present a system architecture for the detected requirements and its current implementation. A complex scenario demonstrates how a desktop supporting semantic analysis can contribute to specific, relevant user tasks.

Reference

René Witte, Petra Gerlach, Markus Joachim, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Praharshana Perera, Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects. 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop – Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), November 6, 2005, Galway, Ireland. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

Bibtex entry (also for download):

@InProceedings{WGJKKP05,
  author =       {Ren{\'{e}} Witte and Petra Gerlach and Markus Joachim and Thomas Kappler 
                 and Ralf Krestel and Praharshana Perera},
  title =        {{Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects}},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the Semantic Desktop Workshop at the ISWC},
  pages =        {138--152},
  year =         {2005},
  volume = 	 {175},
  series = 	 {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  month =        {November 6},
  address =      {Galway, Ireland},
  note =         {\url{http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-175/34_witte_engineeringsd_final.pdf}},
  annote = 	 {ISSN 1613-0073}
}

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