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The CENDARI Infrastructure

Authors:

Nadia Boukhelifa,

Nataša Bulatović,

Jean-Daniel Fekete,

Milica Knežević,

Carsten ThielAuthors Info & Claims

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Volume 11, Issue 2

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3092906

Published: 12 April 2018 Publication History

Abstract

The CENDARI infrastructure is a research-supporting platform designed to provide tools for transnational historical research, focusing on two topics: medieval culture and World War I. It exposes to the end users modern Web-based tools relying on a sophisticated infrastructure to collect, enrich, annotate, and search through large document corpora. Supporting researchers in their daily work is a novel concern for infrastructures. We describe how we gathered requirements through multiple methods to understand historians’ needs and derive an abstract workflow to support them. We then outline the tools that we have built, tying their technical descriptions to the user requirements. The main tools are the note-taking environment and its faceted search capabilities; the data integration platform including the Data API, supporting semantic enrichment through entity recognition; and the environment supporting the software development processes throughout the project to keep both technical partners and researchers in the loop. The outcomes are technical together with new resources developed and gathered, and the research workflow that has been described and documented.

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The CENDARI Infrastructure
1. Applied computing
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Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage Volume 11, Issue 2

June 2018

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ISSN:1556-4673

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DOI:10.1145/3199679

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Published: 12 April 2018

Accepted: 01 May 2017

Revised: 01 May 2017

Received: 01 April 2016

Published in JOCCH Volume 11, Issue 2

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