Viewsari is a research platform built as part of doctoral research at the
Institute for Information Service Engineering (ISE) at FIZ Karlsruhe and the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
The project investigates artwork entity recognition and linking in
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
(1568 edition, De Vere English translation). It combines a formal ontology, an
LLM-based extraction pipeline (ObliquER), a manually annotated gold-standard corpus,
and a populated knowledge graph to make Vasari's artwork references computationally
accessible and explorable.
This project would not have been possible without the support, expertise, and encouragement
of many wonderful people. Heartfelt thanks to
Prof. Dr. Anna Schreurs-Morét,
Dr. Grischka Petri,
Dr. Ulrike Blumenthal,
Dr. Mareike König,
Annika Leuschner,
Brechje Bakker,
Etienne Posthumus,
Georg Schelbert, and
Torsten Wübbena
for their invaluable contributions.
And a very special thank you to Dr. Cedric Möller —
for listening to me vent and ramble, the patient debugging sessions and explaining to me how to maneuver Docker, and for being
my partner in every sense of the word. ❤
And to my best friends Sarah and Raya —
thank you for always being there and for keeping me sane throughout this journey.
Raya — a note just for you: thank you for showing up every single day,
for the care packages from Austria that always arrived exactly when I needed them most, every note in lilac and red that made me smile,
and for the Dead by Daylight sessions that kept me going. ❤
