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Fostering Interaction with Cultural Heritage Material via Annotations: The FAST-CAT Way

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Bridging Between Cultural Heritage Institutions (IRCDL 2013)

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This paper describes the innovative annotation facilities of the CULTURA portal for digital humaties, which are aimed at improving the interaction of non specialist users and general public with cultural heritage contents. The annotation facilities are comprised by two modules: the FAST annotation service as back-end and the CAT Web front-end integrated in the CULTURA portal.

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  2. Trinity College, The University of Dublin, Ireland

    Gary Munnelly, Cormac Hampson & Owen Conlan

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  1. Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Tiziana Catarci

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Antonella Poggi

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Ferro, N., Munnelly, G., Hampson, C., Conlan, O. (2014). Fostering Interaction with Cultural Heritage Material via Annotations: The FAST-CAT Way. In: Catarci, T., Ferro, N., Poggi, A. (eds) Bridging Between Cultural Heritage Institutions. IRCDL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 385. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54347-0_5

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