A Web-based Infrastructure for the philological domain

The preservation and transmission of ancient texts in the digital era require an infrastructure able to afford philological issues, such as the management of multiple editions of the same text, in a collaborative environment. The research activities necessary to develop the proposed infrastructure can be grouped into three blocks: Optical Character Recognition of printed editions and tools for collaborative editing of new editions, with particular attention to versioning. Term indexing, information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge representation using ontologies. Enterprise object oriented methodologies and design devoted to deal with resources in a distributed and collaborative Web-based environment (architectural modeling and formalization).