20 September 2022
Padua, Italy
1st International Workshop on Digital Platforms and Resources for Access to Literary Heritage
a joint event of the 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)
A premier scientific forum aiming to disseminate the recent trends, innovative approaches and future challenges in research and development of digital platforms, resources, portals, algorithms and technologies for access and preservation of literary heritage.
Topic and Goals
In recent decades, the development of the digital technologies has made available and brought to the attention of even non-specialists an invaluable collection of excerpts, texts, documents, books, manuscripts and, in a broader sense, cultural information which can be related to our literary heritage. Such a process of digitisation has contributed extensively to improve the usability of that portion of information which otherwise would have remained the exclusive prerogative of the domain experts. In such a context, the design and development of innovative fruition modalities of the literary heritage, as well as intelligent approaches and knowledge representation methods applied to its digital form have become of prior importance for expanding the access to content and evolving the usability of literary spaces (museums, libraries and archives).
From all aforementioned, the 1st International Workshop on Digital Platforms and Resources for Access to Literary Heritage (DIPRAL 2022) aims to be an emerging forum for the dissemination of current research on digital platforms and portals, resources, approaches and new technologies for the access, knowledge discovery and preservation of the literary heritage.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Techniques for literary heritage elaboration and cataloguing
Augmentation of literary collections with digital items
Digital corpora
Recognition and enrichment of archival documents
Web portals for the fruition of digital literary heritage
Platforms for literary culture in museums, archives and art institutions
Language recognition systems for literary heritage
Techniques of data analysis for literary heritage
Intelligent systems for the conservation of literary heritage
Writer recognition from literary archives
Applications of mobile technologies for digital heritage and literary heritage
Methodologies and approaches to digitisation of literary heritage
Access to digital archives
Knowledge extraction and representation from literary heritage
Knowledge graphs and ontologies from literary archives
DIPRAL 2022 workshop includes goals and topics in knowledge creation, discovering science, publishing science, digital humanities and human-computer interaction related to literary heritage, which is a core aspect of the digital libraries.
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Organization Chairs
Program Committee
Francesco Berardi, University “G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Maria Careri, University “G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Marijana Cosović, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Radmila Janković Babić, Mathematical Institute of S.A.S.A., Serbia
Christian Morbidoni, University “G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Antonino Nocera, University of Pavia
Giulia Perucchi, University “G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Domenico Potena, Marche Polytechnic University
Carlo Tedeschi, University “G. d’Annunzio" Chieti-Pescara
Keynote
Prof. Carlo Tedeschi, University of Chieti-Pescara
Graff-IT, a ERC project to create the first online repository of post-Classical Graffiti
The ERC-2020-AdG Graff-IT project aims to develop a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of post-Classical graffiti (7th-16th c.) as a historical source, in order to allow a correct contextualization of graffiti within their space-time and social production frame. The data collection, as well as the storage of digital graffiti reproductions, will be guaranteed by the development of an opensource, organic digital archive, organized according to scientifically validated criteria, so that it can become the first ‘online repository’ of Italian graffiti. The edition of medieval and renaissance Italian graffiti, through an open access digital archive, will provide the scientific community with a corpus of texts covering a nine centuries chronological span. This will allow comparative investigations over the longue durée, and to concentrate on more specific themes and contexts. The Graff-IT project is destined to bring to our knowledge a huge quantity of unpublished texts (c. 4000 texts) which will serve as a basis for future interdisciplinary research, involving different fields of investigation.
Carlo Tedeschi is full Professor in Palaeography at the "G. D'Annunzio" University of Chieti and Pescara, Italy. He has carried out research on manuscripts, documents, epigraphs and graffiti between Late Antiquity and the Late Middle Ages. He is P.I. of the 2020 ERC Advanced Graff-IT project, "Writing on the Margins. Graffiti in Italy, 7th to 16th centuries”, part of the Horizon 2020 programme.
Location
Istituto Sant’Antonio Dottore
Main conference and workshops venue
Via S. Massimo, 25, 35129 Padua (PD), Italy
