Teachers | Digital Tools for Humanists

	Fabio Carrara is a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia and Humanities Laboratory (AIMH) of the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the Italian CNR in Pisa. He received a Master’s Degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa (Italy) respectively in 2015 and 2019. His research interests include deep learning for multimedia data with a focus on visual perception, image classification, content-based and cross-media image retrieval and analysis.
	Vittore Casarosa graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa and spent a few years at a research center of the Italian National Research Council, doing research on “Electronic Computers” (that center is today ISTI, the Institute for Science and Technology in Informatics). He then joined IBM, spending many years in the R&D laboratories of IBM in Italy, France and in the US, doing and managing research mostly in image processing and networking. Since 2000 he is Senior Research Associate of the Italian National Research Council at ISTI, where he is associated with the activities of the Multimedia Laboratory in the field of Digital Libraries; from 2000 to 2007 he has been Deputy Director of DELOS, the Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries. Vittore has been teaching at the University of Pisa (Department of Engineering), at the University of Parma (Department of Philosophy) and at the Open University of Bolzano (department of Computer Science). Presently he is teaching a course on Digital Libraries at the University of Pisa (department of Digital Humanities).
	Augusto Ciuffoletti retired from the University of Pisa upon reaching the mandatory retirement age. Presently Augusto continues to engage actively in research, focusing on advancements in Geographic Information Systems and distributed data management. During his tenure at the University of Pisa, he taught courses on Computer Networks and Web Design as part of the Digital Humanities program. His research experience includes collaborations with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Open Grid Forum, along with contributions to international projects such as Coregrid and OGF-Europe, supported by European Union funding.
	Fabrizio Falchi is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia and Humanities laboratory (AIMH) of the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of CNR in Pisa, where he coordinates the activities of the Computer Vision and Deep Learning research group. He has a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa and a Ph.D. in Informatics from the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University of Brno. He also received an M.B.A. from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, to which he is also associated. He has been a lecturer in Multimedia Information Retrieval and Computer Vision, Multimedia Information Management, Enterprise Information Management, Deep Learning for Multimedia Retrieval & Analysis, and Computer Vision for various Master’s programs, summer schools, and second-level postgraduate masters. For more information: http://www.fabriziofalchi.it.
	Francesca Frontini obtained a PhD the University of Pavia with a thesis on corpus linguistics; she was a postdoctoral researcher the Institute for Computational Linguistics in Pisa ILC-CNR), working on several European projects with a focus on computational lexicography and natural language processing, and later an associate professor in computational linguistics at Université Paul-Valéry & CNRS in Montpellier. Today she is a Research Scientist at ILC-CNR; her research interests lie in Language Resources, Named Entity Recognition and textual analysis as well as linguistic knowledge representation. She collaborates with the CLARIN infrastructure and has published extensively on issues relating to language resource documentation, preservation and standardization. She leads WP8 of the national H2IOSC project, dedicated to Open Science and Training in cultural heritage and humanities.
	Michele Mallia is a research technologist at the Antonio Zampolli Institute of Computational Linguistics in Pisa. He holds a degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa and is responsible for the technological aspects of WP 7.2 Pilot LLOD in the H2IOSC project. In his previous studies, he explored various topics ranging from computational linguistics to virtual reality, focusing in recent years on web design and the study of the semantic web applied to linguistics. In 2020, he participated as a Research Fellow in the PRIN Italia Antica project, where he worked on developing a web platform for creating linguistic resources of Ancient Italy and a system linking digital lexicons to epigraphic inscriptions encoded in TEI-Epidoc. In December 2023, he was hired as a Level III Technologist (fixed-term) for the H2IOSC project, tasked with designing, in collaboration with an external company, a platform for creating and evaluating linguistics linked open data.
	Nicola Messina is a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities Laboratory (AIMH) of the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the Italian CNR in Pisa. He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering in 2018 at the University of Pisa and his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the same university in 2022. He is presently researching deep learning methods for relational understanding in multimedia data, with particular emphasis on transformer-based architectures for effective and efficient cross-modal analysis and retrieval on images, texts, and videos. He is also interested in attentive deep learning models for anomaly detection, visual counting, and open-vocabulary object detection.
	Monica Monachini is a Research Director at CNR-ILC and the head of LaRI, the Language Resources and Infrastructures group at ILC. She is also the national coordinator of CLARIN-IT, the Italian node of the CLARIN-ERIC European research infrastructure. Her research interests include language resources with emphasis on lexicons, ontologies, terminologies also including metadata, standards, models and formats for publishing Linguistic Linked Open data. She currently represents CNR in the UNI Terminology Committee and in the EOSC task force Community Engagement. She has participated and participates in many national and international INFRA-EOSC initiatives. She is a member of the PhD Board “Technologies and the Humanities” at the University of Macerata and carries out training Activities.
	Giulia Pedonese is a Research Technologist at CNR-ILC working on the design of FAIR training materials to enhance the knowledge of CLARIN linguistic resources within the H2IOSC project. She obtained a PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Pisa with a thesis on Dante Alighieri’s language; she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, where she contributed to the ERC project Lila-Linking Latin, working on refining and extending the Latin Wordnet and the Latin Valency Lexicon; she was also involved in the linguistic annotation of other resources, such as UDante. The lexicographic data from her PhD thesis were published as a LLOD resource called Dante Latin Loanwords and linked to the LiLa Knowledge Base. She contributed for five years to the lexicographic project called “Vocabolario Dantesco Latino”, developed with the Crusca Academy. Her research interests lie in Language Resources, Digital Lexicography and Linguistic Annotation.
	Seamus Ross is a Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, doing researches in the domains of digital curation/preservation, knowledge representation and reasoning, and automated genre classification. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Information from 2009 through 2015, Interim Director of the Marshall McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology in 2015 and 2016, and Visiting Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) in 2016 and 2017. Before joining Toronto, he was Professor and Founding Director of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) (now Information Studies) at the University of Glasgow from 1997 through 2008 and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre in the U.K. (2004-2009). During his time at Glasgow his research benefitted from substantial funding from, among other funders, the European Commission for such projects as ERPANET (2001-2004), Digital Preservation Europe (DPE) (2006-2009), and Blogforever (2011 – 2013). His involvement with research into AI for knowledge representation began in the 1980s during his doctoral investigations in Archaeology at Oxford. It entailed an exploration into the application of knowledge-based systems for representing information and facilitating reasoning processes in the context of archaeological artifacts. During the past four years he has annually taught a graduate course on Human Values in Data Science which focus on investigating the moral and ethical challenges raised by AI and in particular machine learning (ML) in contemporary society. Since April 2023 he has been collaborating with colleagues at Toronto on a research project centred on “Writing For, Writing With, and Writing About AI” under the University of Toronto’s 2023 LEAF+ funding program on Generative AI in Teaching and Learning.
	Roberto Rosselli Del Turco is an Associate Professor at the Università degli studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, where he teaches Germanic Philology, Old English language and literature, and Digital Philology. He has published widely in the Digital Humanities and Anglo-Saxon fields of study. He is the editor of the Digital Vercelli Book, an ongoing project that aims at providing a full edition of this important manuscript (manuscript facsimile and selected texts available at http://www.collane.unito.it/oa/items/show/11). He is also co-director of the Visionary Cross project (http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/activities/visionarycross/), an international project aiming at producing an advanced multimedia edition of key Anglo-Saxon texts and monuments (beta version of the Ruthwell Cross: http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/cross/). He is the creator and project lead of Edition Visualization Technology (EVT), a software tool created at the University of Pisa to navigate and visualize digital editions based on the TEI XML encoding standard (http://evt.labcd.unipi.it/).
	Enrica Salvatori is Associated Professor in the Department of Civilization and Knowledge of at the University of Pisa, where she teaches Medieval History, History of Late Ancient and Medieval Settlements and Digital Public History. Vice President of the degree course in Informatica Umanistica (Digital Humanities) at the same University from 2006 to 2010; Visiting Professor at the University P. Valéry (Montpellier, France) in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015; from 2015 to 2021 Director of the Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale (LabCD, Digital Culture Laboratory – http://labcd.humnet.unipi.it/) and now scientific manager of the Multimedial Service of the University of Pisa. Previously in the board of AIUCD (Italian Association of Digital Culture; 2015-2021), she is now in the board of AIPH (Italian Association of Public History 2017-..) and of PHW (Public History Weekly). Her research interests are focused on Medieval History and Digital Humanities, in mutual connection. Much of his work has been on the medieval Mediterranean circulation, the evolution of the municipality in Italy and Provence and the history of Lunigiana (northern Tuscany), as well as the study of the Digital Public History as a discipline. In particular, she has led since 2011 a research team on the history and archeology of the landscape in Val di Vara and Lunigiana (http://tramonti.labcd.unipi.it/) and since 2014 the digital edition of the Pelavicino Code (http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it/), structured as a Digital Public History project.
	Salvatore Spina has been a research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, and presently is Ambassador for Italy at the Time Machine Organization (Austria) and Trainer for Transkribus (Austria). He has overseen the digital edition of the “Corrispondenza” section of the Biscari Archive (State Archive of Catania) by integrating computer tools into the project workflow, with a specific focus on artificial intelligence tools such as Transkribus and ChatGPT. He is the author of the handbook “Digital History: Computer Methodologies for Historical Research” (ESI editions) and has contributed several articles to prominent scholarly journals in the field. Through these publications, he actively engages in a discourse aimed at formulating the “digital” paradigm within the methodology of historical research.
	Rachele Sprugnoli obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Humanities Computing at the University of Pisa and her PhD in Information Technology at the University of Trento. She worked at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and at the University of Parma. Her research is mainly focused on linguistic annotation, evaluation of NLP tools and on how computational methods can be applied to the treatment of historical texts, in Italian, Latin and English. She is also publicity co-chair of AILC (the Italian association of Computational Linguistics).
	Irene Sucameli Irene earned her PhD in Computer Science in 2022, and she is now a researcher in the field of Natural Language Understanding, with a particular interest in Large Language Models, the development of textual corpora and tools for digital humanists, and the intersection of Ethics and AI. She has collaborated with various academic and corporate entities, both in Italy and internationally, including the University of Pisa, the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Wluper, BNova, the University of Edinburgh, and Heriot-Watt University. Since 2019, Irene has held several lectures and workshops related to her areas of interest and research.

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