List of Contributors
Anastasia Axaridou
is a R&D engineer at the Centre for Cultural Informatics and at the Information Systems Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, since 2003. She holds a BSc in Physics, University of Crete, and a MSc in Information Systems, Hellenic Open University. Her main interests lie in the area of knowledge representation, linked data, and semantic web technology. She has been a team member in several projects funded by the EU and the Greek government. Her main activity concerns the development of modern applications in the field of digital libraries, archival documentation, and terminology alignment/thesauri mapping, for the research, education, and cultural heritage sectors.
Matteo Barbano
completed his PhD in the Department of Antiquities, Philosophical and Historical Studies (DAFIST) at the University of Genoa in 2016. He is currently a post-doc researcher for the ERC Starting Grant “Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s–1920s (SeaLiT)”. In this context, his studies switched to the “long nineteenth century”, focusing on the economic, social, cultural, and political aspects of the transition from sail to steam navigation in the Mediterranean, mainly observed through the evolution of the Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company.
Eduard Page Campos
completed his PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2022. He earned an undergraduate degree in history, and he has specialized in late modern history with a master’s degree. His interests are focused on the social history of the Industrial Revolution, specifically in the fields of maritime and urban history. His doctoral project studies the transformation of the maritime district of Barcelona, la Barceloneta, during the transition from sail to steam navigation, between 1840 and 1900. The demographic transition, the changes on mobility patterns and on labour markets, and the trajectory of the shipbuilding sector are some of the main topics addressed.
Apostolos Delis
is Researcher and founding member of the Centre of Maritime History in the IMS/FORTH. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERG STG 2016 project “Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping, 1850s–1920s (SeaLiT)” and is author of the monograph Mediterranean Wooden Shipbuilding. Economy, Technology and Institutions in Syros in the Nineteenth Century (Leiden: Brill, 2015). His research interests include the history of the sailing ship and the steamship, the shipbuilding industry, the history of navigation, maritime labour, and maritime economic history.
Katerina Galani
PhD Oxford University (2011), is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies and teaches economic and social history at the Hellenic Open University. In 2012, she was awarded the Frank Broeze Prize by the International Maritime History Association. Her first monograph, British Shipping in the Mediterranean During the Napoleonic Wars was published by Brill in 2017. Her recent work involves looking at the formation of the port-city of Piraeus during industrialization, and the naval and merchant fleet during the Greek War of Independence (1821–31).
Korina Doerr
is a product and systems design engineer at the Centre for Cultural Informatics and at the Information Systems Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, since 2012. She obtained her Engineer’s Diploma in 2010 from the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean (Greece). She has participated in a large number of European and national projects, with the role of designing the interfaces of products and systems, communicating with end-users, as well as designing information structures.
Martin Doerr
is Researcher Emeritus at the Information Systems Laboratory and Honorary Head of the Centre for Cultural Informatics at ICS-FORTH. He has led, or participating in, a series of national and international projects on cultural information systems. His research interests fall within the areas of ontology engineering, conceptual modelling, digital libraries, information integration, and scientific argumentation. His long-standing interdisciplinary work and collaboration with the International Council of Museums, on modelling cultural-historical information, has resulted, among other things, in the ISO Standard 21127:2014, a core ontology for the purpose of schema integration across institutions.
Enric Garcia Domingo
is a researcher interested in maritime history with a broad scope, including maritime labour history, the ship building industry, shipping companies, maritime culture and heritage, etc. He has a degree in history (Universitat de Barcelona) and a PhD in contemporary history (Universitat de Barcelona). His dissertation topic was labour in the Spanish merchant marine in the transition from sail to steam, between 1834–1914. He has published several books and articles, and has given many papers at national and international meetings. He is currently the Director of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, and a member of the research group TIG Treball, Institucions i Génere (Labour, Institutions, and Gender) at the Universitat de Barcelona.
Pavlos Fafalios
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Cultural Informatics and the Information Systems Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, since 2019, currently working as principal investigator on the project “ReKnow” (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, ID: 890861). He obtained his Engineer’s Diploma in 2009 from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of University of the Aegean (Greece), and his MSc and PhD in 2012 and 2016, respectively, were from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete (Greece). His research interests fall in the areas of information retrieval, the semantic web, knowledge representation, and knowledge engineering. The results of his research have been published in more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Jordi Ibarz
is Professor of Modern History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Barcelona, and is a member of the research group “Labour, Institutions, and Gender”. He is coordinator of the Ibero-American Research Network in Maritime Communities (RIICoMa) and co-coordinator of the Maritime Labour Working Group of the European Labour History Network. His main research interests are in labour history, especially the history of dock and glass workers. He has recently published “Labor Mobility and Migrations in the Barcelona Docks, c. 1900–1950”, in Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940, ed. Christina Reimann, Martin Öhman, (New York and Oxon: Routledge 2021).
Alkiviadis Kapokakis
is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete, in co-supervision with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH) in Rethymnon. He has been a PhD Fellow since June 2019 for the ERC STG 2016 project SeaLi
Petros Kastrinakis
completed her PhD at the History Department of the University of Crete in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH) in Rethymnon. He graduated and holds an MA in Ottoman History also from the same department. His main field of research is urban and maritime history, specializing in late Ottoman Crete. His PhD thesis is focused on the port of Ottoman Chania in the nineteenth century, examining the role of local communities (Muslim, Christian, Jewish) in the commercial and shipping activities of the island. He has worked on several research projects at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH) between 2015–21.
Athina Kritsotaki
is a graduate of the Department of Archaeology and Art History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a MSc in Computer Science. Her scientific interests are focused on knowledge representation, conceptual modelling, thesauri, ontology engineering and development, archaeological theories of prehistory, and argumentation systems and reasoning. She has been working on cultural documentation and development for the Centre of Cultural Informatics in FORTH for over fifteen years.
Luca Lo Basso
is Professor of Modern History at the Department of History of the University of Genoa and head of the Laboratorio di Storia Marittima e Navale (NavLab). His main research interests lie in various aspects of the Ligurian maritime history in the Early Modern Period. Recently, as a head of the group of the project SeaLiT in the University of Genoa he published also works on the transition from sail to steam such as his monograph Dal Vento Al Carbone. Le metamorfosi del lavoro marittimo in Italia nell’età della transizione (1880–1920), (Genova: Città del Silenzio 2020).
Kostas Petrakis
is a R&D engineer at the Information Systems Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, Greece. He received his BSc at the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, Greece in 2011, and his MSc in Graphic Arts and Multimedia at the Hellenic Open University, Greece in 2016. His MSc focused on ubiquitous computing, IoT, and home automation. He is also interested in web development, the semantic web, conceptual modelling, and knowledge representation. Currently he works on the design, implementation, and development of web applications and services in support of European and Greek projects.
Daniel Muntané
is a PhD student and a member of the research group “Treball, Institucions i Gènere” (TIG) at the Universitat de Barcelona where he graduated in History (2016) and specialized in modern history through a master’s degree (2017). His field of study is the fishing sector, and especially fishermen’s associations in eastern Spanish during the transition from the sail to the motor (1864–1923).
Georgios Samaritakis
is an R&D engineer at the Centre for Cultural Informatics and at the Information Systems Laboratory of ICS-FORTH, since 2004. He holds a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras. He has taken part in several national and international projects. His main interests lie in the areas of information retrieval and manipulation, web design, the semantic web, knowledge representation, and natural language processing.
Leonardo Scavino
is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Genoa, and a member of NavLab. He is also a Teaching Assistant of Atlantic History and Maritime History at the University of Genoa. In 2020, he was awarded the European PhD Label at the University of Genoa within the ERC SG project SeaLiT (“Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s–1920s”), coordinator Apostolos Delis (IMS-FORTH, Crete). His main research interests deal with global and Mediterranean maritime history in the age of transition from sail to steam, maritime labour history, and Atlantic history.
Anna Sydorenko
studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her PhD in the History Department at the Ionian University (2017). She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH. Her research interests involve port history, the social and economic history of eastern Europe, and the history of the Greek diaspora. She has participated in several research projects on maritime history.
Kalliopi Vasilaki
completed her PhD at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete in 2022 and has been a PhD Fellow of the ERC STG 2016, SeaLiT project at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH), since July 2017. She holds a master’s degree in History (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences/École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2012), and a bachelor degree in History and Archaeology (University of Crete, 2010). Her research focuses on the study of the maritime communities in the French Mediterranean, in particular in the port of La Ciotat, during the transition from sail to steam shipping.
Andrea Zappia
PhD, is a Teaching Assistant in Modern History at the University of Genoa. He participated in the ERC project “Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping During Globalization, 1850s–1920s” (SeaLiT) dealing with social security in Genoa in the second half of the nineteenth century. The author of two monographs (Mercanti di uomini (Città del Silenzio, 2018), and Il miraggio del Levante (Carocci, forthcoming)), his interests mainly focus on maritime and Mediterranean history between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on North African society, Jewish communities, the phenomena of privateering, captivity, and consular and missionary activity.