- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Topic Modeling
- Data Management and Algorithms
- Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Research Data Management Practices
University of Pisa
2024
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo"
2022-2024
National Research Council
2023-2024
Digital maps greatly support storytelling about territories, especially when enriched with data describing cultural, societal, and ecological aspects, conveying emotional messages that describe the territory as a whole. Story are interactive online digital narratives can beyond its map by enriching text, pictures, videos, other multimedia information. This paper presents semi-automatic workflow to produce story from textual documents containing data. An expert first assembles one...
Western thought in European history was mainly affected by the image of world created during Middle Ages and Renaissance. The most popular reason to travel taking a pilgrimage. Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela were destinations. It is not surprising that lot works written travellers as guides for pilgrims exist. By beginning Renaissance, more precise defined, thanks discovery ancient geographical models, especially work Ptolemy. Italian National Research Project (PRIN) IMAGO --- Index...
The paper presents the Story Map Building and Visualizing Tool (SMBVT) that allows users to create story maps within a collaborative environment usable Web interface. It is entirely open-source published as free-to-use solution. uses Semantic technologies in back-end system represent stories through reference ontology for representing narratives. builds up user-shared semantic knowledge base automatically interconnects all seamlessly enables building. Finally, it operates an Open-Science...
The United Nations forecast a significant shift in global population distribution by 2050, with rural populations projected to decline. This decline will particularly challenge mountain areas' cultural heritage, well-being, and economic sustainability. Understanding the economic, environmental, societal effects of is important Europe, where mountainous regions are vital for supplying goods. present paper describes geospatially explicit semantic knowledge graph containing information on 454...
Narratives play a crucial role in human communication, serving as means to convey experiences, perspectives, and meanings across various domains. They are particularly significant scientific communities, where narratives often utilized explain complex phenomena share knowledge. This article explores the possibility of integrating large language models (LLMs) into workflow that, exploiting Semantic Web technologies, transforms raw textual data gathered by communities narratives. In...