Prof. P. Constantopoulos Panos Constantopoulos is Professor in the Department of Informatics and former Dean of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business. He is also affiliated with the Institute for the Management of Information Systems of the “Athena” Research Centre, where he heads the Digital Curation Unit. He has previously been Professor and Chairman in the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete (1986-2003) and Head of the Information Systems Laboratory and the Centre for Cultural Informatics at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (1992-2003).
His scientific interests include: knowledge representation and conceptual modelling, ontology engineering, semantic information access, process mining, knowledge management systems, decision support systems, cultural informatics, digital libraries, digital curation and preservation.
He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1978), a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University (1979) and a Doctor of Science in Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983).
He has been principal investigator or scientific responsible on the part of his affiliation in 40 national or international research and development projects, in 13 of which project coordinator.
He has published over 100 articles in scientific journals, conference proceedings or as book chapters.
APOLLONIS is the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, recently formed by the union of two existing ESFRI-related national research infrastructures: clarin:el, the CLARIN-related Greek network for language resources, technologies and services; and DARIAH-GR/DYAS, the DARIAH-related Greek network for digital research in the Humanities.
The development of the APOLLONIS infrastructure advances the existing clarin:el and DARIAH-GR/DYAS services within a common framework that will ensure interoperability and reach to broader user communities, as well as promoting open science principles.
Clarin:el will provide a permanent, stable infrastructure for accessing language resources and language processing web services, will support all kinds of language-related activities (regardless of subject), and collaborative workspace for application development environment. DARIAH-GR/DYAS will provide access to curated digital resources and services for the development, analysis and visualization of data, best practice guidelines, and dissemination and training activities on the use of digital methods and tools in the Humanities. A Digital Humanities Observatory will monitor the penetration of digital practices in the Humanities.
Establishing a unified, open virtual workspace that will enable access to interoperable digital resources, curation and editing tools, good practice guidelines and support, APOLLONIS will allow Greek humanities research and education communities, as well as professionals in the media, culture and tourist industry, to carry out their creative activities more efficiently and less costly. Furthermore, through the clarin:el and DARIAH-GR/DYAS national networks, APOLLONIS will continue Greece’s participation to the european infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, respectively.
The development of APOLLONIS is being carried out by a consortium comprising: Athena Research Centre (coordinator), Academy of Athens, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, GRNET, University of Athens, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens School of Fine Arts, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, University of the Aegean, and Ionian University.