Papyrus

Cultural and historical digital libraries dynamically mined from news archives

Past and existing work for digital recapturing and preservation of European cultural and scientific heritage has consumed significant effort and resources for the digitisation, characterisation, and classification of content. Digital libraries have thus emerged providing electronic access for many communities of users to available information of their discipline. What has never been targeted, however, is a digital library that draws content from one domain and makes it available to the users of another.
Our project approaches this need by introducing the concept of a cross-discipline digital library engine. Papyrus intends to be a dynamic digital library which will understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline, look for content in a domain alien to that discipline and return the results presented in a way useful and comprehensive to the user. The consortium intends to showcase this approach with a specific pair of disciplines which can be illustrated as an apparent need and may prove to be an immediate exploitation opportunity even on its own. This proposed use case is the recovery of history from news digital content.

Watch the PAPYRUS Film for the general vision of the project.

The PAPYRUS Vision

To find out more, watch the interviews below providing: a general overview by Nikos Sarris, a technical perspective by Akrivi Katifori and a view of the historians by Katerina Vlantoni.


Nikos Sarris, Senior IT consultant, ATC Coordinator of the PAPARUS project Nikos Sarris outlines the overall challenges, aims and ambitions of the PAPYRUS project	Vivi Katifori, Researcher, NKUA Department of Informatics & Telecommunications Vivi Katifori analyses the technical objectives of the PAPYRUS project	Katerina Vlantoni, Historian-PhD Candidate, NKUA Philosophy and History of Science Department Katerina Vlantoni describes the benefits of the PAPYRUS project for historians