Manolis Peponakis

Research Interests

“…research as a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education” [1]

• Knowledge Representation: focus on modeling sociocultural information for the semantic web
• Computational Social Anthropology and Computational Ethnography
• Knowledge Organization Systems and Ontologies
• Semantic interoperability
• Cultural Heritage Institutions’ Metadata (Libraries and Museums)

Publications (refereed)

International Journals

• Peponakis, M., Kapidakis, S., Doerr, M., & Tountasaki, E. (2024). From calculations to reasoning: history, trends and the potential of Computational Ethnography and Computational Social Anthropology. Social Science Computer Review, 42(1), 84–102. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231167692
• Peponakis, M., Mastora, A., Kapidakis, S., & Doerr, M. (2019). Expressiveness and machine processability of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS): An analysis of concepts and relations. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 20(4), 433–452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-019-00269-0
• Mastora, A., Peponakis, M., & Kapidakis, S. (2017). SKOS Concepts and Natural Language Concepts: An Analysis of Latent Relationships in KOSs. Journal of Information Science, 43(4), 492–508. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551516648108
• Peponakis, M. (2016). In the Name of the Name: RDF literals, ER Attributes and the Potential to Rethink the Structures and Visualizations of Catalogs. Information Technology and Libraries, 35(2), 19–38. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v35i2.8749
• Peponakis, M. (2013). Libraries’ Metadata as Data in the Era of the Semantic Web: Modeling a Repository of Master Theses and PhD Dissertations for the Web of Data. Journal of Library Metadata, 13(4), 330–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2013.846618
• Peponakis, M. (2012). Conceptualizations of the Cataloging Object: A Critique on Current Perceptions of FRBR Group 1 Entities. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 50(5–7), 587–602. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2012.681275

International Conferences

• Kapidakis, S., Mastora, A., & Peponakis, M. (2012). Query Expansion of Zero-Hit Subject Searches: Using a Thesaurus in Conjunction with NLP Techniques. In P. Zaphiris, G. Buchanan, E. Rasmussen, & F. Loizides (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: Second International Conference, TPDL 2012, Paphos, Cyprus, September 23-27, 2012: Proceedings (Vol. 7489, pp. 433–438). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_48
• Peponakis, M., Sfakakis, M., & Kapidakis, S. (2011). FRBRization: Using UNIMARC link fields to identify Works. World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly. http://eprints.rclis.org/16679/

Education

• PhD candidate in Knowledge Representation (Ionian University)
  The research interest is based on an interdisciplinary approach which targets the issues of modeling and representing anthropological information through the methods and rationale of information science. The main aim is to encode and represent sociocultural information in order to be effectively processed in the ecosystem of the semantic web.
• MSc in Information Science (Ionian University)
• Bachelor degree in Social Anthropology (Panteion University of Athens)
• Bachelor degree in Library Studies and Information Systems (Technological Educational Institute of Athens)

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Note:

[1] Kuhn, Thomas S. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. 2ed edition enlarged. University of Chicago, 1970: p. 5