GREEK INTO ARABIC, A RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE BASED ON COMPUTATIONAL MODULES TO ANNOTATE AND QUERY HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL DIGITAL TEXTS Part ii. System components and features

Computer technology nowadays allows users to build simple and effective tools designed to meet the needs of researchers and institutions in various fields of research. Since its reation, the World Wide Web prompted the existence of an environment that breaks down the boundaries of time (i.e. synchronous activity) and space (i.e. location of activities), a prerequisite for the design of tools enabling the collaboration among users. Over the past years text processing systems have become part and parcel of the daily language of scholars working in the field of Humanities, despite some objections raised against this type of technology because of their apparent lack of simplicity of usage, appropriateness, and flexibility. Usage requires special attention with respect to the interface between the information system and the user, while appropriateness and flexibility have not been sufficiently taken into account, not to mention that they two desiderata almost seem to be in contrast to each other. Therefore, it is not easy to plan and implement a text processing system which is suitable for specific types of research and at the same time as flexible as to operate in various fields of research.