@misc{Benardou2015,
title = {Cultural Heritage in an interactive landscape: User experience workshops at Norwegian Museum of Technology and Sciences, Norway, and the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., Greece},
author = {Agiatis Benardou and Alexandra Angeletaki and Eliza Papaki},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-09-01},
abstract = {In this paper we seek to investigate the impact of digital technology applications in the field of the contemporary museum and cultural heritage practice using data from workshops held in the last 4 years at our 3D laboratory in Trondheim as well as in the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., in Athens.

Digitization of cultural heritage collections, gaming and interactive use of cultural information on the Web has established digital heritage as a new field of theory and practice, but has also created new challenges and opportunities. Users seem to be increasingly involved in the digital landscape of their immediate interest field. Different kinds of devices have been used effectively in public spaces such as museums. Our main question is whether the use of technology by a wider range of specialists has created a new set of relations between them. Does a digital visit realize itself differently in an immersive cultural landscape where the person visiting a site or an exhibition is active in seeking knowledge?

Our paper is based on workshops organized in collaboration with museums and schools in Norway and Greece. In our study we analyze data on how school children interact, work and learn in the context of educational workshops, through observation, discussions, and direct surveys, interviews of the students, system log-files and performance tests. The broader impact of the study contributes to the discussions on issues pertaining to educational activities from the users’ perspective.
},
howpublished = {Paper presented at the 2015 EAA Glasgow Conference},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Garnett2015,
title = {Exploring user requirements through the use of digital tools in Humanities and Social Sciences’ research in the light of Europeana Research},
author = {Vicky Garnett and Caspar Jordan and Ilze Lace and Eliza Papaki},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-01},
abstract = {This poster reports on work conducted during 2013 in the context of the project Europeana Cloud ‘Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud’. Its purpose is to present the methodology followed in documenting actual use of innovative digital tools and services in the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities illustrated in three main Case Studies in the disciplines of Education, Art History and Sociology, further complemented by satellite cases.},
howpublished = {Poster presented at the First Early Career Digital Humanities Conference, King’s College London},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Angelis2015,
title = {Documenting and reasoning about research on ancient Corinthia using the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO)},
author = {Stavros Angelis and Agiatis Benardou and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Panos Constantopoulos and Costis Dallas and Lorna Hughes and Leonidas Papachristopoulos and Eliza Papaki and Vayianos Pertsas},
url = {http://nemo.dcu.gr/resources/usecases/UseCaseCAA2015.pdf},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-04-01},
abstract = {Analyzing and modeling research processes is a major component of the endeavor of understanding and charting the digital humanities practice, which broadly involves content, tools and methods. The need for a formal model of scholarly research activity was identified as early as the preparatory phase of DARIAH. An evidence-based model based on grounded theory analysis of researcher interviews was proposed, subsequently validated, and extended in EHRI (Benardou et al., 2013). This work is now taken forward in NeDiMAH, through development of the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO). NeMO is CIDOC CRM - compliant, and represents explictly dimensions of agency (actors and goals), process (activities and methods) and resources (information resources, tools, concepts) in scholarly research. It incorporates existing relevant taxonomies of scholarly methods and tools (TaDIRAH, Oxford ICT, DHCommons, CCCIULA-UPF and DiRT) through appropriate mappings a semantic backbone of NeMO concepts. It thus enables integration of different perspectives, vocabularies and documentation on scholarly methods and practice (Hughes et al. forthcoming).

This paper introduces NeMO, applies it on the documentation of scholarly research conducted in the course of a synthetic study of the social and economic history of Classical Corinthia (Benardou 2007), and discusses how NeMO can support both a structured documentation of, and reasoning about, archaeological and historical research practice. The case study concerns the functions of the urban centre of Corinth as part of its surrounding countryside. It addresses Corinthian society throughout the 5th century BC. On the basis of geographical and temporal parameters, it examines settlement patterns and networks, and relates them with cultural and economic factors. Using NeMO, we demonstrate how research activities of specific types, organized in methodological steps, use, produce and curate specific information resources as they are carried out with specific methods and tools. Our study highlights the importance of overall goals and research questions in shaping scholarly process. Generation of semantic paths connecting concepts in NeMO enables support for associative queries and reasoning about the research activities, methods followed, and their context. Indexing terms are drawn from taxonomies incorporated in NeMO. This work contributes to methodological reflexivity, better understanding of the research process, and improved communication on research methods in archaeology. Future work includes the streamlining of interaction processes using NeMO and semantic publishing of related information.
},
howpublished = {Paper presented at the CAA 2015 Conference},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Papachristopoulos2014,
title = {Φιλολογία και Ψηφιακές Ερευνητικές Υποδομές: Από τη Θεωρία στην Πράξη},
author = {Leonidas Papachristopoulos and Nephelie Chatzidiakou},
url = {http://www.lis.upatras.gr/events/?event_id_1=25},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-10-01},
abstract = {Στο πλαίσιο των Ευρωπαϊκών ερευνητικών έργων Preparing DARIAH και DARIAH καθώς και στο εθνικό έργο υποδομής ΔΥΑΣ (Δίκτυο Υποδομών για την Έρευνα στις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες), η Μονάδα Ψηφιακής Επιμέλειας (Ερευνητικό Κέντρο «ΑΘΗΝΑ») διενήργησε ποιοτική και ποσοτική έρευνα με αντικείμενο την κατανόηση και ανάλυση των ερευνητικών πρακτικών των ερευνητών στις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες προκειμένου να εξάγει συμπεράσματα και να ιεραρχήσει τις πληροφοριακές ανάγκες του χρήστη (User Requirements) τις οποίες οι μελλοντικές ψηφιακές υποδομές καλούνται να εξυπηρετήσουν. Στην εν λόγω παρουσίαση, θα προσεγγίσουμε στοχευμένα το ζήτημα των ερευνητικών πρακτικών της κοινότητας των φιλολόγων και κατ’ επέκταση θα επιχειρήσουμε να καθορίσουμε με μεγαλύτερη ασφάλεια τις πληροφοριακές ανάγκες της συγκεκριμένης ερευνητικής κοινότητας. },
howpublished = {Παρουσίαση στην Ημερίδα Ψηφιακές Τεχνολογίες και Νεοελληνική Φιλολογία, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Benardou2014,
title = {What’s in a Discipline? Research Practices, Use of Tools and Content in the Humanities and Social Sciences - The web-based questionnaires of EHRI and Europeana Cloud},
author = {Agiatis Benardou and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Eliza Papaki},
url = {http://dharchive.org/paper/DH2014/Poster-735.xml},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-07-01},
abstract = {This poster reports on work conducted during 2010-2012 in the context of EHRI – the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, as well as work in progress in the context of Europeana Cloud - Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud. Its purpose is to investigate any differentiations between the research practices of humanists and social scientists as identified within the User Requirements work conducted in the context of those two Projects (Benardou et.al. 2013, Benardou et.al. 2010).},
howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2014 Digital Humanities Conference},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Benardou2014,
title = {Archaeology, History and Digital Research Infrastructures: From theory to practice},
author = {Agiatis Benardou and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Eliza Papaki},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-03-03},
abstract = {Στο πλαίσιο των Ευρωπαϊκών ερευνητικών έργων Preparing DARIAH και Europeana Cloud, η Μονάδα Ψηφιακής Επιμέλειας (Ερευνητικό Κέντρο «ΑΘΗΝΑ») διενήργησε ποιοτική και ποσοτική έρευνα αντίστοιχα, με αντικείμενο την κατανόηση και ανάλυση των ερευνητικών πρακτικών των ερευνητών στις Ανθρωπιστικές Επιστήμες, προκειμένου να εξάγει συμπεράσματα και να ιεραρχήσει τις πληροφοριακές ανάγκες του χρήστη (User Requirements) τις οποίες οι μελλοντικές ψηφιακές υποδομές θα κληθούν να εξυπηρετήσουν. Στην εν λόγω παρουσίαση, θα προσεγγίσουμε στοχευμένα το ζήτημα των ερευνητικών πρακτικών της ερευνητικής κοινότητας των αρχαιολόγων και των ιστορικών και κατ’ επέκταση θα επιχειρήσουμε να καθορίσουμε με μεγαλύτερη ασφάλεια τις πληροφοριακές ανάγκες των συγκεκριμένων ερευνητικών κοινοτήτων.},
howpublished = {Paper presented at the CAA-GR Conference},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Dallas2013,
title = {The ARIADNE interoperability framework, component architecture and registry service},
author = {Costis Dallas and Dimitris Gavrilis},
url = {file:///C:/Users/DCU-12/Downloads/CHNT-2013_14_DGavrilis-CDallas_ARIADNE-interoperability_20131113.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-01},
abstract = {We present the ARIADNE approach towards integration of heterogeneous archaeological resources and tools into a digital research infrastructure capable of addressing the needs of cutting-edge and emerging technology-enabled archaeological research across Europe. Drawing from a comprehensive workplan, which involves conceptual and technical work regarding the planned research infrastructure and culminates in large scale trialling and transnational community engagement, we will address:

Firstly, our methodological approach, based on evidence-based analysis of actual and prospective user needs and requirements analysis, reliance on semantic technologies, and standards conformance.

Secondly, preliminary results on the specification of the ARIADNE architecture, focusing on:

1)the ARIADNE interoperability framework, including the internal (API-based) and external (human) interfaces to the infrastructure and consisting of: a) Repository management, catering for metadata, metadata schemas, vocabularies, thesauri, gazetteers, and datasets, b) Metadata registry, providing a catalog of metadata schemas, with elements semantically organized according to ISO11179, c) Import service, ingesting metadata schemas and thesauri to the registry, d) Harvester, gathering metadata from archaeological collections, e) Aggregator, and f) Service Orchestrator,

2) planned integrated services, including a) Ingestion, b) User interface components, c) User authentication and authorization services, d) Visualization services, and e) Long-term digital preservation services, and,

3) the architecture and functional specifications of the ARIADNE metadata registry, driven by an evidence-based survey and analysis of metadata schemas, existing mappings between them and from/to CIDOC CRM, and SKOSified archaeological thesauri and vocabularies, and based on the ISO 11179 and ISO 15000-3 standards, as well as on frameworks defined by the DESIRE, ROADS and Open Metadata Registry-NSDL projects.

Finally, the innovative potential of the ARIADNE infrastructure, as substantiated by an evidence-based approach to functional specifications, a strong emphasis on interoperability, semantic technologies and standards, and support for digital preservation and active data curation by data custodians and archaeologists.
},
howpublished = {Presentation at the 18th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Dallas2013,
title = {DYAS: The Greek research Infrastructure network for the humanities},
author = {Costis Dallas and Panos Constantopoulos},
url = {http://www.chnt.at/dyas/

http://www.slideshare.net/ariadnenetwork/dyas-the-greek-research-infrastructure-network-for-the-humanities},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-11-01},
abstract = {The mission of DYAS, the Greek Research Infrastructure Network for the Humanities, is to support the Greek communities of humanities researchers in advancing their work using ICT and in exchanging knowledge and working practices; to broaden the scope of and opportunities for research through the interconnection of various distributed digital resources; and to promote the access, use, creation and long-term preservation of research data, both primary and secondary, in digital form. DYAS is also charged to operate as the Greek component of the European Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities, DARIAH. DYAS is designed as a distributed infrastructure with members at distinct levels of involvement: management nodes, providing the services of the infrastructure and setting the specifications for digital resources( currently, the Academy of Athens and the DCU, R.C. Athena); curators, responsible for specific collections and added-value repositories; affiliates, providing selected metadata for ingestion by the management nodes. In addition to members, external users can subscribe to specific services of the network, thus widely offering the benefits of DYAS and DARIAH services to researchers, educators and collection managers. By promoting standards, interoperability frameworks, common practices, authorities and services, DYAS intends to foster multidisciplinary activities and to establish links with thematic infrastructures, such as ARIADNE. The services being developed by DYAS fall in four groups: (1) sharing digital resources through a set of data, person, metadata, vocabulary and software registries; (2) support for resource development, through a series of guidelines and specialized tools; (3) contributing to DARIAH services, by participating in specific tasks of the Virtual Competency Centres; and (4) a digital humanities observatory to support continuous monitoring and recording of the advances in the field and to undertake dissemination actions.

The service architecture involves layers of common curation and interoperability services and employs cloud computation and data management services. ”
},
howpublished = {Presentation at the 18th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Angelis2010,
title = {A curation-aware repository supporting information-intensive scholarly research},
author = {Stavros Angelis and Agiatis Benardou and Panos Constantopoulos and Costis Dallas and Dimitris Gavrilis},
url = {http://dcu.gr/admin/getfile.php?type=3&id=1},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-12-06},
abstract = {Poster presentation and discussion of MOPSEUS, a curation-aware repository supporting information-intensive scholarly research. The latter has been analysed and mapped in the context of DCU's work on Preparing DARIAH},
howpublished = {Poster presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Konstantopoulos2008,
title = {INDIGO: Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robot},
author = {Stasinos Konstantopoulos and Ion Androutsopoulos and Haris Baltzakis and Vangelis Karkaletsis and Colin Matheson and Athanasios Tegos and Panos Trahanias},
url = {http://www.dcu.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/INDIGO-Interaction-with-Personality-and-Dialogue-Enabled-Robots.pdf},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
abstract = {The subject of this demonstration is human-robot interaction, focusing on robotic personality modelling and dialogue management. These are demonstrated in a museum guide use-case, operating in a simulated environment. The main technical innovations presented are the robotic personality model, the dialogue & action management system, and the robotic integration & simulation platform.
},
howpublished = {Demonstration presented at the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@misc{Karakatsiotis2008,
title = {NaturalOWL: Generating Texts from OWL Ontologies in Protégé and in Second Life},
author = {George Karakatsiotis and Dimitrios Galanis and Ion Androutsopoulos},
url = {http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/docs/ecai2008_naturalowl.pdf},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
abstract = {NaturalOWL is an open-source natural language generation engine written in Java. It produces descriptions of individuals (e.g., items for sale, museum exhibits) and classes (e.g., types of exhibits) in English and Greek from OWL DL ontologies. The ontologies must have been annotated in RDF with linguistic and user modeling resources. We demonstrate a plug-in for Protégé that can be used to produce these resources and to generate texts by invoking NaturalOWL. We also demonstrate how NaturalOWL can be used by robotic avatars in Second Life to describe the exhibits of virtual museums. NaturalOWL demonstrates the benefits of Natural Language Generation (NLG) on the Semantic Web. Organizations that need to publish information about objects, such as exhibits or products, can publish OWL ontologies instead of texts. NLG engines, embedded in browsers or Web servers, can then render the ontologies in multiple natural languages, whereas computer programs may access the ontologies directly.
},
howpublished = {Demonstration presented at the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}