A mobile app to learn about cultural and historical associations in a closed loop with humanities experts
Authors: Daif, Abdullah 
Lopez Nores, Martin 
Gonzalez Soutelo, Silvia 
Bassani, Maddalena 
Antoniou, Angeliki 
Gil Solla, Alberto 
Ramos Cabrer, Manuel 
Pazos - Arias, Jose Juan 
Dahroug, Ahmed 
Publisher: MDPI
Issue Date: 20-Dec-2018
Journal: Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Keywords: Cultural heritage, Reflective topics, Semantic associations, Storytelling, Visualization
Abstract: 
The Horizon 2020 project CrossCult aims to highlight historical and cultural associations between different characters, locations, events, venues, or artworks, to develop new strategies with which to promote intercultural and cross-border aspects of history and heritage. This paper presents a pilot app that provides graph-based visualizations of those associations, arranged by Humanities experts in relation to several reflective topics, and glued together by narratives that may present the same facts from diverse points of view. After querying a knowledge base that brings together several Linked Data resources, the associations are curated by the experts using a dedicated tool, to ensure that only meaningful associations appear on the mobile app. In turn, the app users can contribute new associations in the form of written text, which the experts can turn into new concepts and properties in the knowledge base. Here, we present the design of the mobile app and the experts' tool, together with the results of early experiments aimed at assessing the instructional value of the proposal.
ISSN: 20763417
DOI: 10.3390/app9010009
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/681
Type: Article
Department: Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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