Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects

Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects

Abstract. We analyse the requirements for an advanced semantic sup- port of users?building historians and architects?of a multi-volume en- cyclopedia of architecture from the late 19th century. Novel requirements include the integration of content retrieval, content development, and au- tomated content analysis based on natural language processing. We present a system architecture for the detected requirements and its current implementation. A complex scenario demonstrates how a desktop supporting semantic analysis can contribute to speci?c, relevant user tasks.