Research

Research Areas

IMIS focuses on the following research areas:

• Web Information Systems

• Management of spatial and spatiotemporal data

• Distributed Information Systems

• Data provenance and preservation

• Privacy preservation

• Information integration and interoperability

• Personalized Data Management Systems

• Curation of digital resources

Moreover, IMIS is competent in the following areas:

• Data warehouses

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Research Activities

Research Infrastructures is a group of autonomous but complementary systems that aim to develop and maintain a set of services supporting the activities of the greek research community (in greek).

The GEOCROWD Platform: geoblogging as a tool to capture user experiences by means of collecting and organizing images, audio, video and text in relation to space and time. Application Detailed description Thematic tags: Crowdsourcing, User-generated content, Web data management, Geospatial data

GoNTogle: Semi-automatic semantic classification of documents, and search based on ontology annotations (in greek). Thematic tags: Semantic annotation

Applications for the efficient management, processing, and retrieval of Bioscientific data: DIANA microT and DIANA mirGen (in greek). Thematic tags: Scientific databases

Creative search: a platform for collecting and organizing scientific material, based on the concept of MindMaps (in greek). Thematic tags: Creativity search

MOPSEUS: a repository system for the curation and the long-term preservation of digital collections, based on open-source software (in greek). Thematic tags: Digital preservation, Digital curation, Digital libraries, Digital repositories

GIS services and algorithms for navigation and dynamic routing in road networds. Detailed description Thematic tags: Geospatial data, Routing methods, Spatiotemporal data, Transportation networks

WASabi is an innovative web-based system for recording and analysing work practices. The current implementation focuses on research practices of human sciences (in greek).

Advanced services for data collection and management from social networks. Thematic tags: Graph databases, Social data, Temporal data

OPACIAL is a system for accessing digital library catalogues, which uses Web 2.0 technologies for allowing users to exchange views through annotations about the catalogue resources (in greek).

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