Visual Exploration of Digital Cultural Artifacts (short paper)

This work presents the extended abstract of the doctoral thesis about the Visual Exploration of digital cultural artifacts. We exploited the synergy between semantic technologies and knowledge exploration tools for digital libraries, proposing a system which includes: semantic enrichment of textual content; a user interface for search and exploration of a digital library through visual navigation of a knowledge graph of topics; the extensions of the central system to leverage the extracted knowledge. For example, interface components hide complex queries to find interesting topics for users; an integrated system to semi-automatically manage the knowledge contained in the images, generating video trailers of books; and a collaborative system to improve extracted data quality.