The overall goal is to facilitate both understanding the importance of the computational methodology within the humanities research and studies and offer a tool to experiment, practice and customize this methodology within the different disciplines and across them. In order to make this possible the project Pinakes3 will release an application (Alpha version – experimental) for free on the web within March 2007.
This application will be distributed under the regulation of the so called General Public License and will undergo the rules of the copyleft. This means that anyone interested in using it as it is will be authorized to do so and that anyone interested to participate to its further development will be authorized to do so by participating into the Pinakes3 eveloper and user community.
This web application is divided in two main functional areas:
a. The management area where, on the basis of the existing methods in the application, the user can define:
- how detailed he wants the description of the objects are being described;
- what type of relations his objects can have with other objects;
- what kind of indices he wants to use and where to create them;
- what can be published on the web and what not;
b. The classification area where the user can:
- input the data using his own definition and in case if needed re-edit them according to the given methods;
- refine the definition of information and knowledge domain according to new needs encountered in the research;
- browse and use data belonging to other projects that may be relevant for its on own research;
- use and/or offer other projects relations and indices definition if needed;
- access to the digital repository of all projects and use, under the Intellectual Property constrain, all digital objects (images, moving pictures, music, etc.);
- define a data navigation for the purpose of editing them;
- access through the web to other databases in order to capture data and import them in a given project (this according to the rules of the Intellectual Property);
- access to external (out of the Pinakes 3.0) project) digital repositories to capture new resources or refer to them through the automatic creation of a web address (this according to the rules of the Intellectual Property and copyright);
c. The navigation area where the user can:
- The navigation area where the user can have access to all data produced controlling the publication of its own data and if needed go back to the input to edit them.
This application will be able to manage all type of data: text, scientific objects (such as tables, graphs, mathematical expressions, etc.), structured texts (such HTML, XML, etc.) and digital objects (such as images, moving pictures, 3D objects etc.).
