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 showcases 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 use case is the recovery of history from news digital content.
Watch the PAPYRUS Film for the general vision of the project:
To find out more, watch the interviews below providing: a general overview, a technical perspective and a view from the historians.
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Nikos Sarris, ATC
Papyrus Coordinator
Nikos outlines the challenges, aims and ambitions of Papyrus
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Vivi Katifori, NKUA
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
Vivi analyses the technical objectives
of the project
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Katerina Vlantoni, NKUA
Philosophy and History of Science Department
Katerina describes the benefits
of Papyrus to historians
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For a quick demonstration of the Papyrus prototype platform in action, watch the following videos: