Workshop

"The ATLAS of Italian Digital Humanities: a dynamic knowledge graph of digital scholarly research on Italian Cultural Heritage"

22 September 2025. Sala B, Ca’ Bernardo, Dorsoduro 3199, Calle Bernardo, Venezia.

The closing workshop of the DH-ATLAS project will provide a space to present and evaluate the project’s outcomes, while also opening the floor to discussions on future research directions. Alongside the overview of results, the event will host hands-on activities and focus groups, fostering active engagement with the DH-ATLAS model and tools. PhD students will take part in the collaborative sessions, contributing to the assessment of achievements and to the exploration of innovative pathways for strengthening a sustainable and open research infrastructure dedicated to Italian Cultural Heritage.

PROGRAMME

The workshop will be held in presence. Official languages are Italian and English.

  • 11.00-11.05 Welcome address. Marina Buzzoni, University Ca' Foscari Venice
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  • 11.05-11.15 Overview of the ATLAS project. Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna
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  • 11.15-12.45 Deliverables:
    • Sebastiano Giacomini, University of Bologna; Marilena Daquino, University of Bologna; Francesca Tomasi, University of Bologna; Laurent Fintoni, University of Bologna. ATLAS catalogue + Q&A
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    • Giorgia Rubin, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); Alessia Bardi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); Riccardo Del Gratta, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); Angelo Mario Del Grosso, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). OpenAIRE gateway and API + Q&A
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    • Chiara Martignano, University Ca' Foscari Venice; Sebastiano Giacomini, University of Bologna. Ontology + Q&A
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    • Chiara Martignano, University Ca' Foscari Venice; Marina Buzzoni, University Ca' Foscari Venice; Franz Fischer, University Ca' Foscari Venice; Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, University of Turin. White book and Guidelines + Q&A
  • 12.45-18.45 PhD hands-on activities:
    • 12.45-13.45 Digital Lunch & Warm-up session with PhD students
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    • 13.45-16.30 Datathon & Focus Groups
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    • 16.30-16.45 Wrap-up session
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    • 16.45-17.15 Coffee break
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    • 17.15-18.15 ATLAS in the PhD students’ dissertations
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    • 18.15-18.45 Future perspectives and Conclusion

ORGANISERS

Local Chairs: Marina Buzzoni and Franz Fischer

Organisers: Roberto Rosselli del Turco (UNITO), Chiara Martignano (UNIVE), Alessia Bardi (CNR), Riccardo Del Gratta (CNR), Angelo Mario del Grosso (CNR), Giorgia Rubin (CNR), Sebastiano Giacomini (UNIBO), Marilena Daquino (UNIBO), Francesca Tomasi (UNIBO).

"Accessing Digital Humanities Research on the Cultural Heritage"

26 March 2025. Bologna, via Zamboni 34, Aula Affreschi

Accessing research data is fundamental to scholars in any scientific field. While several infrastructures, models, and frameworks exist to support findability and access to scholarly data, it is still hard to fully appreciate the landscape of Digital Humanities research.

Current data models for describing research products lack terms for describing peculiar endeavours in the Humanities (e.g. Digital Scholarly Editions) and platforms for accessing scholarly data rarely offer means for retrieving and analysing the wealth of interdisciplinary information that connects research products to the Cultural Heritage artefacts they are related to.

The objective of the workshop is to discuss strategies, practices, and models adopted in the broad Digital Humanities community. Five speakers will focus on good practices, existing solutions, and research lines that effective Open Access scholarly metadata in the Digital Humanities would foster. Secondly, a session will be dedicated to the presentation of the DH-ATLAS project and to hands-on activities. Participants will be using the DH-ATLAS data model and DH-ATLAS web prototype for the description of DH research products and projects, contributing to create the open graph of Digital Humanities projects on the Italian Cultural Heritage.

PROGRAMME

The workshop will be held in presence. Official languages are Italian and English.

  • 9.30-10.00 Welcome and introduction
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  • 10.00-10.30 Elena Spadini, University of Bern. Dati, comunità e riuso [slides]
  • 10.30-11.00 Paolo Manghi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). The OpenAIRE Graph: Cooking and Cutting the DH Slice! [slides]
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  • 11.00-11.15 Coffee break
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  • 11.15-11.45 Antonella Negri, Istituto Centrale per la digitalizzazione del patrimonio culturale - Digital Library. Ecomic: l’ecosistema digitale per la cultura e la sfida della Digital Library del MiC [slides]
  • 11.45-12.15 Arianna Ciula, King's College London. Un’infrastruttura digitale per la ricerca in ambito umanistico: strutture e processi del King’s Digital Lab [slides]
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  • 12.15-14.20 Lunch break
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  • 14.20-14.50 Sebastiano Giacomini, University of Bologna; Chiara Martignano, University Ca' Foscari Venice; Giorgia Rubin, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). The DH-ATLAS project and prototype [slides]
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  • 14.50-15.30 Datathon
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  • 15.30-15.45 Coffee break
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  • 15.45-17.00 Datathon, feedback, and conclusion

REGISTRATION

Everybody can attend the event for free. For logistics reasons, please register using this form. The deadline for applying is 10 March 2025.

ORGANISERS

Local Chairs: Marilena Daquino and Francesca Tomasi

Organisers: Sebastiano Giacomini (UNIBO), Alessia Bardi (CNR), Riccardo Del Gratta (CNR), Angelo Mario del Grosso (CNR), Giorgia Rubin (CNR), Marina Buzzoni (UNIVE), Franz Fischer (UNIVE), Roberto Rosselli del Turco (UNITO), Chiara Martignano (UNIVE).