2023, Working paper, ENG
Salerno E.
Digital Humanities have been evolving throughout the parallel evolution of computers, software and networking techniques, as well as the different attitudes of the interested scholars. Since the earliest historical phases of this research field, scholars have been debating on whether it can be considered to be a new academic discipline and whether it is revolutionary in nature. About twenty years ago, the early denotation of Humanities Computing evolved to the present one, and deep changes intervened in digital information technologies, as well as in their humanities applications. This paper accounts for the relevant scholarly debate, distinguishing between the early period and the most recent years, then tries to frame this process in a model of scientific revolution.
2021, Annual report, ENG
Aloia N.; Amato G.; Bartalesi V.; Benedetti F.; Bolettieri P.; Cafarelli D.; Carrara F.; Casarosa V.; Coccomini D.; Ciampi L.; Concordia C.; Corbara S.; Di Benedetto M.; Esuli A.; Falchi F.; Gennaro C.; Lagani G.; Massoli F.V.; Meghini C.; Messina N.; Metilli D.; Molinari A.; Moreo A.; Nardi A.; Pedrotti A.; Pratelli N.; Rabitti F.; Savino P.; Sebastiani F.; Sperduti G.; Thanos C.; Trupiano L.; Vadicamo L.; Vairo C.
The Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities laboratory (AIMH) has the mission to investigate and advance the state of the art in the Artificial Intelligence field, specifically addressing applications to digital media and digital humanities, and taking also into account issues related to scalability. This report summarize the 2021 activities of the research group.
2021, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Cristofaro, Salvatore; Sanfilippo, Emilio M.; Sichera, Pietro; Spampinato, Daria
Knowledge and data in the human sciences are sometimes expressed in hypothetical or even incompatible terms. One wonders therefore how to make sense of them in ontological modeling frameworks. Accordingly, we present in the paper some preliminary ideas to make ontologies for the Digital Humanities able to deal with hypothetical and incompatible scholarly statements, which we call claims. Our proposal builds on existing works in the state of the art. The results are still preliminary; the contribution is more on the definition of the problem and identification of the challenges rather than on the modeling itself, therefore future work to strengthen our proposal is necessary.
2021, Contributo in pubblicazione non scientifica, ENG
Schiettecatte J.; Rossi I.
Presentation of the ANR project 'Maparabia' and of its three online research outputs: Digital atlas of ancient Arabia, Gazetteer of ancient Arabia, Thematic Dictionary of Ancient Arabia (TDAA).
2020, Annual report, ENG
Aloia N.; Amato G.; Bartalesi V.; Benedetti F.; Bolettieri P.; Carrara F.; Casarosa V.; Ciampi L.; Concordia C.; Corbara S.; Esuli A.; Falchi F.; Gennaro C.; Lagani G.; Massoli F.V.; Meghini C.; Messina N.; Metilli D.; Molinari A.; Moreo A.; Nardi A.; Pedrotti A.; Pratelli N.; Rabitti F.; Savino P.; Sebastiani F.; Thanos C.; Trupiano L.; Vadicamo L.; Vairo C.
Annual Report of the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities laboratory (AIMH) research activities in 2020.
2019, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Corbara S.
The Epistle to Cangrande is one of the most debated documents in the production of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. For more than a hundred years scholars have been debating over its real paternity, whether it should be considered a work by Dante or a malicious forgery by an unnamed author. In this work, we try to address this philological problem through the methodologies of computational authorship verification and machine learning, by training a classifier on a dataset of medieval Latin prose texts and by using a set of authorship-related features. Although the project is still in a preliminary phase, the early results seem to confirm the hypothesis of a forgery.
2019, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Lame M.; Pittet P.; Ponchio F.; Markhoff B.; Sanfilippo E.M.
In this paper, we present an online communication-driven decision support system to align terms from a dataset with terms of another dataset (standardized controlled vocabulary or not). Heterotoki differs from existing proposals in that it takes place at the interface with humans, inviting the experts to commit on their definitions, so as to either agree to validate the mapping or to propose some enrichment to the terminologies. More precisely, differently to most of existing proposals that support terminology alignment, Heterotoki sustains the negotiation of meaning thanks to semantic coordination support within its interface design. This negotiation involves domain experts having produced multiple datasets.
2019, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Corbara S.; Moreo A.; Sebastiani F.; Tavoni M.
The Epistle to Cangrande is one of the most controversial among the works of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. For more than a hundred years now, scholars have been debating over its real paternity, i.e., whether it should be considered a true work by Dante or a forgery by an unnamed author. In this work we address this philological problem through the methodologies of (supervised) Computational Authorship Verification, by training a classifier that predicts whether a given work is by Dante Alighieri or not. We discuss the system we have set up for this endeavour, the training set we have assembled, the experimental results we have obtained, and some issues that this work leaves open.
2018, Articolo in rivista, ENG
Grifoni E.; Legnaioli S.; Nieri P.; Campanella B.; Lorenzetti G.; Pagnotta S.; Poggialini F.; Palleschi V.
3D multi-band/multi-spectral reconstruction is a technique, which allows the use of images taken in different spectral bands for the reconstruction of spectrally-resolved 3D models of paintings. In this work, we propose a procedure for constructing and comparing 3D multi-band models obtained starting from a variety of input data (RGB and IR images, UV-induced fluorescence images, etc.) and/or acquired with different instruments. The procedure has been tested on two case studies, with the aim to highlight the critical issues associated to the specificities of the subject and of the environmental constrains: a 14th century panel painting signed by Barnaba from Modena, preserved at the Museum of San Matteo in Pisa, Italy and a 15th century panel painting preserved at the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Bellomo in Syracuse, Italy. RGB, IR and UV-VIS fluorescence models obtained with a conventional digital camera (RGB and UV) and a multisband camera (IR) were realized and compared, for revealing differences at sub-millimeter level.
2018, Linee Guida (Guide lines), ITA
Russo, Ada
Linee guida e sommario su cosa fare e come per realizzare contenuti culturali digitali
2017, Contributo in volume, ENG
Bocconi, Stefania
In formal education settings, innovation is often regarded as a highly demanding challenge and usually meets resistance because of its intrinsic complexity. In order to bring about transformative changes to education, the role of technology should be disruptive, changing both individuals and organizational practices. In this short paper, the use of technologies to enable effective digital-age learning is discussed, exploring innovative pedagogies in the field of digital humanities and focusing on their potential to boost both students' and organizations' digital competence.
2017, Articolo in rivista, ENG
Hanif M.; Tonazzini A.
Archival, ancient manuscripts constitute a primary carrier of information about our history and civilisation process. In the recent past they have been the object of intensive digitisation campaigns, aimed at their preservation, accessibility and analysis. At ISTI-CNR, the availability of the diverse information contained in the multispectral, multisensory and multiview digital acquisitions of these documents has been exploited to develop several dedicated image processing algorithms. The aim of these algorithms is to enhance the quality and reveal the obscured contents of the manuscripts, while preserving their best original appearance according to the concept of "virtual restoration". Following this research line, within an ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship, we are now studying sparse image representation and dictionary learning methods to restore the natural appearance of ancient manuscripts affected by spurious patterns due to various ageing degradations.
2017, Contributo in volume, ENG
Meghini C.; Bartalesi V.; Metilli D.
Currently, Digital Libraries (DLs) provide simple search functionalities to respond to the user's queries, which return a ranked list of the resources included in the DLs. No semantic relation among the returned objects is usually reported that could help the user to obtain a more complete knowledge on the subject of the search. The introduction of the Semantic Web and in particular of the Linked Open Data has the potential of improving the search functionalities of DLs. In this context, the long-term aim of our study has been to introduce the narrative as new first-class search functionality of DLs. We intend narratives as semantic networks of events that are linked to the objects of the DLs and are endowed with a set of semantic relations that connect an event to another. In this paper, we report an overview of the main ontologies for representing events and of the tools developed in the Semantic Web field to visualize events and narratives. This overview is needed for achieving the first goal of our research, that is the development of an ontology for representing narratives and, on the top of this ontology, a tool to construct and visualize narratives using the digital objects included in DLs.
2017, Articolo in rivista, ENG
Bartalesi Lenzi V.; Meghini C.
This paper describes a digital library developed within the "Towards a Digital Dante Encyclopaedia" project, a three years Italian National Research Project that aims at building services supporting scholars in creating, evolving and consulting a digital encyclopaedia of Dante Alighieri's works. The digital library is based on a knowledge base storing knowledge on the primary sources that Dante refers to in his works, i.e. the works of other authors Dante refers to in his texts. At present, this information is scattered on many paper books, making it difficult to systematically overview the cultural background of Dante and to obtain a well-founded perception of how this background was gradually set up in time. The same applies also to other authors, therefore the applicability of our work extends well beyond the specific author we are considering in our project. The digital library that we are building is based on an ontology for representing the knowledge on one author's works and on the primary sources embedded in the commentaries to these works. Following this approach, a semantic network of Dante's works and of references to primary sources of these works was created. Furthermore, a web application allowing users to explore the semantic network in various ways and to visualize statistical information about the references as charts and tables was developed.
2016, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alfredo Cosco, Fabrizio Butini, Roberta Giacomi, Vinicio Serafini
TRAME is a research infrastructure for medieval manuscripts. The TRAME engine scans a set of sources for searched terms and retrieves links to a wide range of possible information, from simple reference, to detailed manuscript record, to full text transcriptions. Currently, it is possible to perform queries by: free-text, shelfmark, author, title, date, copyst or incipit, on more than 80 selected scholarly digital resources across EU and USA. Since 2014 September 1st, TRAME has entered a new phase and the current work is focused on: extending the meta-search approach to other web resources, leveraging the users interaction to define an ontology for medieval manuscripts, re-designing the front-end towards a new UX approach.
2016, Contributo in atti di convegno, ENG
Bartalesi Lenzi V.; Meghini C.; Metilli D.
Narrative is emerging as a notion that may enable overcoming the limitations of the discovery functionality (only ranked lists of objects) offered by information systems to their users. We present preliminary results on modelling narratives by means of formal ontology, by introducing a conceptualization of narratives and a mathematical expression of it. Our conceptualization tries to capture fundamental notions of narratives as defined in narratology, such as fabula, narration and plot. A validation of the conceptualization and of its mathematical specification is ongoing, based on the Semantic Web standards and on the CIDOC CRM ISO standard ontology.
2015, Articolo in rivista, ITA
Mazzola Roberto
Google books and the (post) Humanities. This article examines some steps of the evolution of the relationship between computer science and humanities and focuses on the activity of Google in the digitization, preservation and dissemination of cultural assets. In particular it critically analyzes the role of Google Books and the meaning of the Big Data in the Digital Humanities.
2015, Rapporto tecnico, ENG
Locuratolo E.I.; Bartalesi Lenzi V.
The approach followed for the identification and the implementation of visualization diagrams able to support the knowledge acquisition on Dante's works is described. Two high level structures and an implementation model are proposed. An example of citation histogram is given; one of its possible refinements is considered. The article is part of the Towards a Digital Dante Encyclopedia, a three-year Italian National Project which aims to build a digital library endowed with services to support scholars in creating, evolving and consulting an encyclopedia on Dante Alighieri and on his works.
2015, Curatela di atti di convegno (conference proceedings), ENG
Guidi G.; Scopigno R.
These two volumes contain the papers presented at DigitalHeritage 2015, Granada (Spain), Sept. 28th - Oct. 2nd. This is the second edition of a multidisciplinary and federated event, aimed at gathering in a single location multiple communities working on the application of digital technology to the documentation, conservation, exhibition, and understanding of humanity's shared past. Following the approach developed in 2013, the scientific program has been selected through a single call for papers and a single review process, endorsed by all of the federated events. The scientific papers included in these proceedings are the result of a complex process that involved the conference chairs, scientific reviewers, and the conference management staff.