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University of Basilicata 2
ITA | ENG
Project
“Editing Medieval and MOdern Documents on a Digital Support (EMMODDIS): digitization, ontology management, indexing and editing of texts and collections” falls within the philological and literary field. It deals with the digitization, ontology management and markup, indexing and digital critical editing of texts and documentary collections, mainly written in the vernacular of the medieval and modern periods, in order to set up databases for the enhancement of cultural heritage. The project focuses on new information representation and coding methods specific to the humanities: texts and their interpretative frameworks, considered as complex and structured cultural products, subject to interpretation and having their own intertextual and paratextual dimensions; methods of production, identification, manipulation, management, distribution, retrieval and preservation of information over time.
Financial Resources
The project was funded by the NOP Research and Innovation 2014-2020 under action “Innovative Industrial Doctorates”, Cycle XXXIV - Academic Year 2018-2019. For the implementation of this initiative, the University of Basilicata, which received 92.338,68 euro in funding, established a 3-year doctoral scholarship in History, Culture and Knowledge of Mediterranean Europe from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age at the Department of Humanities.
Impact
The project falls within the “Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Creative Industry” specialization area and has a high degree of innovation since it deals with an under-explored sector and aims to encourage reflection on the exportability of metadata in order to create innovative and performing services for the cultural industry and enhance the local cultural product within the international context. The project intends to train professionals able to develop projects for the management of Big Data, documentary databases and digital collections through markup and indexing processes. This is a fast growing field of application both in the private and public sector: this professional qualification can find application in the broad field of semantic web services, i.e. documentary and book archives, conservation and production of both public and private virtual documents and materials, which need to be accessible and functional. The information and scientific potential is huge also in terms of applications and can be exploited for any type of document, cultural object, material product or object of interest.
The project includes a 6-month placement at @cult srl, a company offering next-generation technology for research, organization and management of information, with a focus on Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities, and a 12-month placement at the University of Utrecht, a research centre engaged in one of the main European projects for the digitization and cataloguing of documents from the early modern period: “Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society” (SKILLNET).
08/11/2021