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FAST CAT: Collaborative Data Entry and Curation for Semantic Interoperability in Digital Humanities

Authors:

Pavlos Fafalios,

Kostas Petrakis,

Georgios Samaritakis,

Athina Kritsotaki,

Yannis Tzitzikas,

Martin DoerrAuthors Info & Claims

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Volume 14, Issue 4

Article No.: 45, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/3461460

Published: 16 July 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Descriptive and empirical sciences, such as History, are the sciences that collect, observe and describe phenomena to explain them and draw interpretative conclusions about influences, driving forces and impacts under given circumstances. Spreadsheet software and relational database management systems are still the dominant tools for quantitative analysis and overall data management in these these sciences, allowing researchers to directly analyse the gathered data and perform scholarly interpretation. However, this current practice has a set of limitations, including the high dependency of the collected data on the initial research hypothesis, usually useless for other research, the lack of representation of the details from which the registered relations are inferred, and the difficulty to revisit the original data sources for verification, corrections or improvements. To cope with these problems, in this article we present FAST CAT, a collaborative system for assistive data entry and curation in Digital Humanities and similar forms of empirical research. We describe the related challenges, the overall methodology we follow for supporting semantic interoperability, and discuss the use of FAST CAT in the context of a European (ERC) project of Maritime History, called SeaLiT, which examines economic, social and demographic impacts of the introduction of steamboats in the Mediterranean area between the 1850s and the 1920s.

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FAST CAT: Collaborative Data Entry and Curation for Semantic Interoperability in Digital Humanities
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Information integration

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DOI:10.1145/3476246

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Published: 16 July 2021

Accepted: 01 April 2021

Revised: 01 December 2020

Received: 01 September 2020

Published in JOCCH Volume 14, Issue 4

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