Skip to Main Content The new educational system in Greece, as
far as teaching of history is concerned, is characterized by a
shift away from sterile memorization and towards a critical
approach of historical facts and phenomena that would contribute
in both the development of pupils' historical concept and
conscience and the promotion of critical thought. This reflects
the globally accepted goals of teaching history courses. Such
teaching goals can be greatly supported by computer-based
applications, which can offer access to vast amounts of
historical texts and data to be used next to the main scholar
textbook and be analyzed by pupils. Still, existing applications
seem to be quite inadequate for this purpose, as they require
that the pupil be already informed on a matter, before the
initiation of a quest for data. We describe an intelligent
information system that is designed to facilitate browsing of
educational material and historical sources, thus allowing
pupils to efficiently retrieve information on to