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In this article we present the first achievement of the Index Medii Aevi Geographiae Operum (IMAGO)—Italian National Research Project (2020–23), that is, the ontology we have created in order to formally represent the knowledge about the geographical works written in Middle Ages and Renaissance (6th–15th centuries). The IMAGO ontology is derived from a strict collaboration between the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and the scholars who are involved in the project, who have supported ISTI-CNR in defining a conceptualization of the domain of knowledge. Following the re-use logic, we have selected as reference ontologies the International Committee on Documentation CRM vocabulary and its extension FRBRoo, including its in-progress reformulation, LRMoo. This research is included in a wider project context whose final aim is the creation of a knowledge base (KB) of Latin geographic literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Humanism in which the data are formally represented following the Linked Open Data paradigm and using the Semantic Web languages. At the end of the project, this KB will be accessed through a Web application that allows retrieving and consulting the collected data in a user-friendly way for scholars and general users, e.g. tables, maps, CSV files.
Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Nicolò Pratelli; Paolo Pontari. Towards a knowledge base of medieval and renaissance geographical Latin works: The IMAGO ontology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Daniele Metilli, Nicolò Pratelli, Paolo Pontari. Towards a knowledge base of medieval and renaissance geographical Latin works: The IMAGO ontology. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Nicolò Pratelli; Paolo Pontari. 2021. "Towards a knowledge base of medieval and renaissance geographical Latin works: The IMAGO ontology." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , no. : 1.
This paper presents a knowledge representation framework and provides tools to allow the representation and presentation of the tangible and intangible dimensions of culinary tradition as cultural heritage including the socio-historic context of its evolution. The representation framework adheres to and extends the knowledge representation standards for the Cultural Heritage (CH) domain while providing a widely accessible web-based authoring environment to facilitate the representation activities. In strong collaboration with social sciences and humanities, this work allows the exploitation of ethnographic research outcomes by providing a systematic approach for the representation of culinary tradition in the form of recipes, both in an abstract form for their preservation and in a semantic representation of their execution captured on-site during ethnographic research.
Nikolaos Partarakis; Danae Kaplanidi; Paraskevi Doulgeraki; Effie Karuzaki; Argyro Petraki; Daniele Metilli; Valentina Bartalesi; Ilia Adami; Carlo Meghini; Xenophon Zabulis. Representation and Presentation of Culinary Tradition as Cultural Heritage. Heritage 2021, 4, 612 -640.
AMA StyleNikolaos Partarakis, Danae Kaplanidi, Paraskevi Doulgeraki, Effie Karuzaki, Argyro Petraki, Daniele Metilli, Valentina Bartalesi, Ilia Adami, Carlo Meghini, Xenophon Zabulis. Representation and Presentation of Culinary Tradition as Cultural Heritage. Heritage. 2021; 4 (2):612-640.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNikolaos Partarakis; Danae Kaplanidi; Paraskevi Doulgeraki; Effie Karuzaki; Argyro Petraki; Daniele Metilli; Valentina Bartalesi; Ilia Adami; Carlo Meghini; Xenophon Zabulis. 2021. "Representation and Presentation of Culinary Tradition as Cultural Heritage." Heritage 4, no. 2: 612-640.
This work regards the digital representation of tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage crafts, towards craft preservation. Based on state-of-the-art digital documentation, knowledge representation and narrative creation approach are presented. Craft presentation methods that use the represented content to provide accurate, intuitive, engaging, and educational ways for HC presentation and appreciation are proposed. The proposed methods aim to contribute to HC preservation, by adding value to the cultural visit, before, and after it.
Xenophon Zabulis; Carlo Meghini; Nikolaos Partarakis; Cynthia Beisswenger; Arnaud Dubois; Maria Fasoula; Vito Nitti; Stavroula Ntoa; Ilia Adami; Antonios Chatziantoniou; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Nikolaos Stivaktakis; Nikolaos Patsiouras; Paraskevi Doulgeraki; Effie Karuzaki; Evropi Stefanidi; Ammar Qammaz; Danae Kaplanidi; Ilka Neumann-Janßen; Ulrike Denter; Hansgeorg Hauser; Argyro Petraki; Ioannis Stivaktakis; Eleni Mantinaki; Anastasia Rigaki; George Galanakis. Representation and Preservation of Heritage Crafts. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1461 .
AMA StyleXenophon Zabulis, Carlo Meghini, Nikolaos Partarakis, Cynthia Beisswenger, Arnaud Dubois, Maria Fasoula, Vito Nitti, Stavroula Ntoa, Ilia Adami, Antonios Chatziantoniou, Valentina Bartalesi, Daniele Metilli, Nikolaos Stivaktakis, Nikolaos Patsiouras, Paraskevi Doulgeraki, Effie Karuzaki, Evropi Stefanidi, Ammar Qammaz, Danae Kaplanidi, Ilka Neumann-Janßen, Ulrike Denter, Hansgeorg Hauser, Argyro Petraki, Ioannis Stivaktakis, Eleni Mantinaki, Anastasia Rigaki, George Galanakis. Representation and Preservation of Heritage Crafts. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (4):1461.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXenophon Zabulis; Carlo Meghini; Nikolaos Partarakis; Cynthia Beisswenger; Arnaud Dubois; Maria Fasoula; Vito Nitti; Stavroula Ntoa; Ilia Adami; Antonios Chatziantoniou; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Nikolaos Stivaktakis; Nikolaos Patsiouras; Paraskevi Doulgeraki; Effie Karuzaki; Evropi Stefanidi; Ammar Qammaz; Danae Kaplanidi; Ilka Neumann-Janßen; Ulrike Denter; Hansgeorg Hauser; Argyro Petraki; Ioannis Stivaktakis; Eleni Mantinaki; Anastasia Rigaki; George Galanakis. 2020. "Representation and Preservation of Heritage Crafts." Sustainability 12, no. 4: 1461.
The paper presents a vision about a new paradigm of data integration in the context of the scientific world, where data integration is instrumental in exploratory studies carried out by research teams. It briefly overviews the technological challenges to be faced in order to successfully carry out the traditional approach to data integration. Then, three important application scenarios are described in terms of their main characteristics that heavily influence the data integration process. The first application scenario is characterized by the need of large enterprises to combine information from a variety of heterogeneous data sets developed autonomously, managed and maintained independently from the others in the enterprises. The second application scenario is characterized by the need of many organizations to combine information from a large number of data sets dynamically created, distributed worldwide and available on the Web. The third application scenario is characterized by the need of scientists and researchers to connect each others research data as new insight is revealed by connections between diverse research data sets. The paper highlights the fact that the characteristics of the second and third application scenarios make unfeasible the traditional approach to data integration, i.e., the design of a global schema and mappings between the local schemata and the global schema. The focus of the paper is on the data integration problem in the context of the third application scenario. A new paradigm of data integration is proposed based on the emerging new empiricist scientific method, i.e., data driven research and the new data seeking paradigm, i.e., data exploration. Finally, a generic scientific application scenario is presented for the purpose of better illustrating the new data integration paradigm, and a concise list of actions that must be performed in order to successfully carry out the new paradigm of big research data integration is described.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Costantino Thanos. Big Research Data Integration. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2019, 23 -37.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini, Costantino Thanos. Big Research Data Integration. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2019; ():23-37.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Costantino Thanos. 2019. "Big Research Data Integration." Communications in Computer and Information Science , no. : 23-37.
We present a preliminary study to introduce narratives as a first-class functionality in digital libraries. The general idea is to enrich those libraries with semantic networks of events providing a meaningful contextualisation of the digital libraries’ objects. More specific motivations are presented through a set of use cases by different actors who would benefit from using narratives for different purposes. Then, we consider a specific digital library, Europeana, the largest European digital library in the cultural heritage domain. We discuss how the Europeana Data Model could be extended for representing narratives, and we introduce an ontology for narratives. We also present a semi-automatic tool, which, on the basis of the ontology, supports the creation and visualisation of narratives, and we show how the tool has been employed to create a narrative of the life of the painter Gustav Klimt as a case study. In particular, we focus our attention on the functionality of the tool that allows extracting and proposing to the user specific digital objects for each event of the narrative.
Carlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 2019, 29, 7 -16.
AMA StyleCarlo Meghini, Valentina Bartalesi, Daniele Metilli, Filippo Benedetti. Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. 2019; 29 (1):7-16.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. 2019. "Introducing narratives in Europeana: A case study." International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 29, no. 1: 7-16.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli; Mirko Tavoni; Paola Andriani. A web application for exploring primary sources: The DanteSources case study. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 2018, 33, 705 -723.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini, Daniele Metilli, Mirko Tavoni, Paola Andriani. A web application for exploring primary sources: The DanteSources case study. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2018; 33 (4):705-723.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli; Mirko Tavoni; Paola Andriani. 2018. "A web application for exploring primary sources: The DanteSources case study." Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 33, no. 4: 705-723.
The current Digital Libraries (DLs) usually return as answer of a user’s query a ranked list of the resources included in the DLs but no semantic relation among the resources are reported. Using the Semantic Web technologies it is possible to improve these search functionalities introducing narratives as new search method. As narratives we intend semantic networks of events that are linked to the objects of the DLs and are endowed with a set of semantic relations that connect an event to another. These semantic networks may help the users to obtain a more complete knowledge on the subject of their searches. In this paper, we present a software architecture for building narratives in order to introduce them in DLs. Our architecture is composed of several tools (automatic and semi-automatic tools) for creating, storing and visualizing narratives. When possible, we reused open source components already available on-line, and for the software we developed, we freely distribute it for research aims.
Carlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. A Software Architecture for Narratives. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2017, 23 -29.
AMA StyleCarlo Meghini, Valentina Bartalesi, Daniele Metilli, Filippo Benedetti. A Software Architecture for Narratives. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2017; ():23-29.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. 2017. "A Software Architecture for Narratives." Communications in Computer and Information Science , no. : 23-29.
We present some preliminary steps towards the introduction of narratives as first-class citizens in digital libraries. The general idea is to enrich the digital libraries with events providing a rich contextualisation of the digital libraries’ objects. More specific motivations are presented in the paper through a set of use cases by different actors who would benefit from using narratives for different purposes. We then consider a specific digital library, Europeana, the largest European digital library in the cultural domain. We discuss how the Europeana Data Model should be extended for representing narratives. We present a tool supporting the creation and the visualisation of narratives and we show how the tool has been employed to create a narrative of the life of the painter Gustav Klimt.
Carlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. Introducing Narratives in Europeana: Preliminary Steps. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2017, 333 -342.
AMA StyleCarlo Meghini, Valentina Bartalesi, Daniele Metilli, Filippo Benedetti. Introducing Narratives in Europeana: Preliminary Steps. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2017; ():333-342.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi; Daniele Metilli; Filippo Benedetti. 2017. "Introducing Narratives in Europeana: Preliminary Steps." Communications in Computer and Information Science , no. : 333-342.
One of the main problems of the current Digital Libraries (DLs) is the limitation of the informative services offered to the users, who express their queries in natural language. Indeed, DLs provide simple search functionalities that return a list of the information objects contained in them. No semantic relation among the returned objects is usually reported, which could help the user in obtaining a more complete knowledge on the subject of the search. The introduction of the Semantic Web, and in particular of the Linked Data, has the potential of improving the search functionalities of DLs. In this context, our final aim is to introduce the narrative as new first-class search functionality. As output of a query, the new search functionality does not only return a list of objects but it also presents a narrative, composed of events that are linked to the objects of the library and endowed with a set of semantic relations connecting these events into a meaningful semantic network. This paper presents a study of the Artificial Intelligence literature, especially of the Event Calculus theory, in order to identify the formal components of narratives. Furthermore, the mapping between these components and the standard ontology CIDOC CRM is presented, in order to evaluate if it could be taken as reference vocabulary to create an ontology for narratives. On the top of this ontology, we will develop the new search functionality for DLs.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini. Formal Components of Narratives. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2017, 112 -121.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini. Formal Components of Narratives. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2017; ():112-121.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini. 2017. "Formal Components of Narratives." Communications in Computer and Information Science , no. : 112-121.
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Daniele Metilli; Carlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi. A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 2017, 12, 35 .
AMA StyleDaniele Metilli, Carlo Meghini, Valentina Bartalesi. A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies. 2017; 12 (1):35.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaniele Metilli; Carlo Meghini; Valentina Bartalesi. 2017. "A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM." International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 12, no. 1: 35.
Current Digital Libraries (DLs) are mostly built around large collections of scarcely related objects. We aim at enriching the information space of DLs by introducing narratives, consisting of two main components: networks of events related to one another and to the DL resources through semantic links, and narrations of those events in texts. In order to introduce narratives in DLs, we developed a conceptualisation based on narratology and we expressed it using the CIDOC CRM and CRMinf as reference ontologies. We used this expression to validate our conceptualisation, creating a narrative of the biography of Dante Alighieri as a realistic case study. To support this experiment, we developed a semi-automated tool that collects basic knowledge about objects and events from Wikidata. The developed ontology is general enough to be not limited to create biographies but other types of narratives as well.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli. A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 2017, 12, 35 .
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini, Daniele Metilli. A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies. 2017; 12 (1):35.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli. 2017. "A conceptualisation of narratives and its expression in the CRM." International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 12, no. 1: 35.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini. Using an ontology for representing the knowledge on literary texts: The Dante Alighieri case study. Semantic Web 2016, 8, 385 -394.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini. Using an ontology for representing the knowledge on literary texts: The Dante Alighieri case study. Semantic Web. 2016; 8 (3):385-394.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini. 2016. "Using an ontology for representing the knowledge on literary texts: The Dante Alighieri case study." Semantic Web 8, no. 3: 385-394.
In this paper we present DanteSources, a Digital Library of Dante Alighieri’s primary sources, i.e. the works of other authors that Dante cites in his texts. Currently, this information is scattered in many books, making it difficult for the scholars to retrieve it and also to produce a systematical overview of the cultural background of Dante. In order to overcome this problem, an ontology expressed in RDF/S was developed to represent this knowledge. Once the ontology had been defined, we populated it with the data included in authoritative commentaries to Dante’s works. We stored the resulting RDF graph into a Virtuoso triple store. Finally, on top of this graph, we developed DanteSources, which allows users to extract and display the knowledge stored in the knowledge base in the form of charts and tables. In this paper we present the results of a survey to collect suggestions and comments from end-users on their interactions with DanteSources in order to evaluate its usability.
Valentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli; Paola Andriani. Usability Evaluation of the Digital Library DanteSources. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2016, 191 -203.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Carlo Meghini, Daniele Metilli, Paola Andriani. Usability Evaluation of the Digital Library DanteSources. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2016; ():191-203.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Carlo Meghini; Daniele Metilli; Paola Andriani. 2016. "Usability Evaluation of the Digital Library DanteSources." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 191-203.
Our study aims at obtaining ePub accessibility for all, including screen reader users. Since an ePub document is made up of several (X)HTML files, we analysed and worked with those (X)HTML tags that affect the blind user’s experience in the reading. As a case study we developed an “enriched” ePub book which applies technical solutions (i.e. tags and attributes) with the purpose to overcome the accessibility and usability issues observed when interacting via screen reader. In this work we present the results collected through an online survey conducted with 25 users to evaluate the “enriched” ePub compared with the original PDF format in terms of accessibility and usability. Positive responses about the proposed solutions emerged from the survey: the easy access to the table of content, to the images, to the text and also the ease of navigation. In short, 88 % of the users preferred the ePub format instead of the PDF. This confirms that quite simple technical solutions can really improve the reading experience for not only visually impaired people. The results from the survey also showed accessibility issues and limitations of the screen readers and eBook reader software which still exist.
Valentina Bartalesi; Barbara Leporini. An Enriched ePub eBook for Screen Reader Users. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2015, 375 -386.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Barbara Leporini. An Enriched ePub eBook for Screen Reader Users. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2015; ():375-386.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Barbara Leporini. 2015. "An Enriched ePub eBook for Screen Reader Users." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 375-386.
We present a learning analytic tool for analyzing data collected during didactic sessions performed by children with autism, via software. The tool is a web application that automatically extracts, aggregates and visualizes the children’s performance data collected when they perform technology-enhanced exercises during didactic activities. The aim is to provide teachers with easy real-time monitoring of learning progress or difficulties over time, thus enabling continuous and personalized tuning of the didactic intervention. Extracted data can be visualized through tables and graphics, allowing the user to further explore them in an interactive modality. Educators were involved in the design phase of the tool, in order to define the most important analysis parameters to extract from the huge amount of collected data. The educators were also involved in the test phases to improve the system’s usability.
Valentina Bartalesi; Maria Claudia Buzzi; Marina Buzzi; Barbara Leporini; Caterina Senette. Monitoring Learning in Children with Autism. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2013, 8095, 593 -594.
AMA StyleValentina Bartalesi, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini, Caterina Senette. Monitoring Learning in Children with Autism. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2013; 8095 ():593-594.
Chicago/Turabian StyleValentina Bartalesi; Maria Claudia Buzzi; Marina Buzzi; Barbara Leporini; Caterina Senette. 2013. "Monitoring Learning in Children with Autism." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 8095, no. : 593-594.