Off-Lod

Academic Year: 2021/2022
The OFF-LOD project aims at portraying through the tools of linked open data (LOD) one of the most important poems of the Italian literary tradition. It provides an overview on the cultural humus surrounding the production of the Orlando furioso and reconstruct the most relevant reinterpretation of Ariosto’s masterpiece through different media and artistic languages from the Cinquecento to present days.

NoStos Nella Pelle!

Academic Year: 2021/2022
“NoStos nella pelle!” is a gamification project for children which is focused on the frieze of Jason and Medea by the brothers Carracci, held at Palazzo Fava, Bologna (Genus Bononiae). Its outcome is a tablet (Android) application where the myth of the Argonauts is retold and interpreted into a ludic and user-centered framework to strengthen the relationship between younger generations and local heritage. As it is thought for children resident in Bologna, the project is in Italian.

Nice To MET You!

Academic Year: 2022/2023
The project aims at reconstructing the provenance of the Italian paintings collection at the MET Museum in New York on the basis of MET OpenAccess CSV and Zeri&LODE. The datasets have been analysed and compared with archival and bibliographical resources to reconstruct the history of the masterpieces, artists and art dealers involved in this process. The website can be enjoyed by a variety of users who want to explore the secrets of one of the most important Italian art collections in the world.

Songs TO Poems

Academic Year: 2021/2022
Through a compared analysis of the musical album "Non al denaro, non all'amore, né al cielo" and the anthology "Spoon River", obtained by extracting data with different Python libraries (e.g.: BERTopic), we worked onto establishing the main topics. Then we build an ontology based on our discoveries through Protégé and created some SPARQL queries, to confront the different similarities and analyze the differences, between these two works.

The WWWaste Land SDE

Academic Year: 2021/2022
The WWW Waste Land SDE: The Waste Land Original Drafts aims to provide an effective depiction of the early stages of the poem's creation by analysing T. S. Eliot's original manuscript-typescript. This documentary digital edition recovers the valuable content of the original drafts of The Waste Land, a typescript-manuscript now held at the New York Public Library.