Applying the Semantic Web: The VICODI Experience in Creating Visual Contextualization for History.
Semantic Web applications in the humanities that visualize knowledge are still few and far between. The Visual Contextualization of Digital Content (VICODI) project brought together Semantic Web technologies with the concepts of contextualization and visualization of knowledge, an approach which we...
| Published in: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 327 - 350 |
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Sep2005
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