Engineering a semantic desktop for building historians and architects
René Witte, Petra Gerlach, Markus Joachim, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, Praharshana Perera · 2005
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.