RESEARCH / Projects
On this page you can find a list of academic projects I've been working on in the last years. Click on an item to find out more information about it; alternatively, you can download this page as plain text.
Current:
The Breaking of Britain: cross-border society and Scottish independence 1216-1314. A prosopographical database containing information about people active in that historical area, and the events related to them.
The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stone Carving and Carvers in the Roman World. An online resource around a unique and unpublished photographic collection documenting the tools, techniques and working practices of Roman stone carvers.
Past:
Shipping Archives and Integrated Logbooks of Ships: Linking WW1 Naval Records. A prototype ontology-based system for allowing semantic interoperability between digitized WW1 naval records.
Early Modern London Theatres: a bibliographic database representing the transmission history of pre-1642 documents related to professional performance in the London area.
Paradox of Medieval Scotland: a prosopographical database that provides biographical information about all known people in Scotland between 1093 and 1286.
PhiloSURFical: an e-learning web application for enhanced browsing of a semantically-encoded version of a classic text in twentieth century philosophy, Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Cohere: an "idea management tool" that allows people to weave meaningful connections between ideas, for personal, team or social use.
The Internet Reasoning Service: a semantic web services framework.
Aqualog: an ontology based question answering system for the semantic web.