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Email:alberto.campagnolo@gmail.com
Alberto Campagnolo (orcid.org/0000-0002-8672-8400) trained as a book conservator (1998-2001) in Spoleto, Italy and has worked in that capacity in various institutions, among which the Vatican Library. He studied Conservation of Library and Archive Materials (2001-2006) at Ca’ Foscari University Venice and then read for an MA in Digital Culture and Technology (2007-2009) at King’s College London. He received his PhD (2010-2015) on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures from the Ligatus Research Centre (University of the Arts, London). He was a Forschungsverbund Marbach-Weimar-Wolfenbüttel Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities (2016) at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Germany), CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Medieval Studies (2016-2018) at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), Le Studium–Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies Research Fellow (2022-2023) at the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (Université de Tours, France), and he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Codicology of Carolingian Bindings (2021-2024)at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and guest professor at KU Leuven. He was an adjunct professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Udine, Italy (2018-2021) and the Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France (2022-2023). Alberto has been collaborating (2013-ongoing) with Dot Porter (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania) on VisColl, a modelling and visualization tool for the gathering structure of books in codex format. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Paper Conservation, and a member of the Executive Board of IADA (International Association of Book and Paper Conservators).
Experience with manuscripts and conservation
Experience with manuscripts and conservation
International conservation experience on a range of library and archive materials working as a conservator in several institutions and collections:
Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales (various projects between 2001 and 2006)
‘Marciana’ National Library, Venice, Italy (2003)
Palace Green Library, University Library, Durham (2003-2004): probate and Sudan collections.
Imperial War Museum, London (2006-2007)
Guildhall Library, City of London Corporation (2007-2008)
London Metropolitan Archives, City of London Corporation (2008-2010): Sun Insurance company archive; Digital Humanities specialist for the preliminary stages of the Great Parchment Book project.
Ligatus - St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, Egypt, Library Research Project phase II (2009): visiting conservator.
Vatican Apostolic Library (2013-2015), Heydar Aliyev Foundation project, Phase II: Conservation of 20 manuscripts (15th to 19th cent.).
Collaborative projects on imaging and manuscript material characterization:
Conservation and Digital Humanities Consultant (2010-2014) for the Great Parchment Book Project, London Metropolitan Archives.
Conservation advisor (2011-2014) for Dr Alejandro Giacometti’s PhD research work on Evaluating multispectral imaging processing methodologies for analysing cultural heritage documents. Dataset available at: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/publication/1037060/1.
Co-PI (2017-2018), with Dr Erin Connelly and Heather Wacha, of Labeculae Vivae, Building a Reference Library of Stains for Researching Medieval Manuscripts, a CLIR-sponsored pilot research project. Dataset available at: http://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/stains/root/.
Projects on modelling and visualizing book structures:
PhD (2010-2015) on an automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures based on the dataset of bookbinding descriptions from the Library of the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, Egypt: Transforming structured descriptions to visual representations. An automated visualization of historical bookbinding structures.
Collaborator for the Language of Bindings Thesaurus, Ligatus Research Centre, University of the Arts London.
Co-lead with Dot Porter (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries) for VisColl, Manuscript Collation project.
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