Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (http://www.uniroma1.it/) Department of Information Systems "Antonio Ruberti" (DIS) (http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/) Prof. Tiziana Catarci
Participants in the NoE from Università di Roma have a long tradition of working on user interaction related issues. Their overall contribution can be regarded as one of the first and most significant examples of deep analysis and formalization of the interaction between the user and the database, which takes in consideration both usability issues and language related aspects. Currently, the research mainly concentrates on the following main topics: information access, information visualization, visual interfaces, usability, semantic web, cooperative information systems, data integration, data quality, ontology management. The UniRoma group has also implemented several prototypes of visual interfaces for database access and have been involved in many international projects on related topics. Among these projects LAURIN,a recently completed Telematics projectworked to establish a network of digitised newspaper clipping archives accessible through the Internet in a centralised fashion, for searching and for retrieving clippings; SEWASIE, which started in 2002, is designing and implementing an advanced search engine enabling intelligent access to heterogeneous data sources on the web via semantic enrichment to provide the basis of structured secure web-based communication. |