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The Digital Humanities ToolKit : A python library for the Digital Humanities
2018 - 2020 (24 mois)
grant-giving organisation : UNIL (Switzerland)
Applicant : Davide Picca
The Internet is a great source for searching and retrieving this type of information and archives such as Project Gutenberg, Europeana, Archive.org and Similia provide many relevant datasets for researchers. However, many of these resources are organized and structured in different ways and are often incompatible, having different APIs and different metadata structures, which make these repositories difficult to exploit. With the introduction of the Digital Humanities Tool Kit (DHTK), we propose a new python library whose purpose is to overcome these limitations by providing an intuitive tool for large-scale study of large cultural databases, leveraging cutting-edge computational methods to support and simplify research in the Digital Humanities. Tool produced in the course of Programming for Human Sciences held by me
French Lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A Digital-Philological Approach
2020 - 2020 (12 mois)
grant-giving organisation : UNIL (Switzerland)
Applicant : Rory Critten
Other partners : Davide Picca
This project seeks to problematize the connection between language and nation that has become common in readings of the Auchinleck Manuscript. In particular, it considers the lexicon French used in the texts of the manuscript and the relative novelty of its appearance in Middle English contexts. Our main goal is to match the more than 17,000 lexical entries in the Auchinleck Manuscript with the lemmas in the Middle English Dictionary, in order to extract and sort information regarding the etymology of manuscript words and their earliest citation dates in Middle English. If it can be shown that a significant part of the lexicon of the Auchinleck Manuscript consists of recent French imports, to what extent can the manuscript be said to be "in English"?
Models of musician mobility and migrating musical patterns
2020 - 2020 (12 mois)
grant-giving organisation : CROSS - EPFL/UNIL (Switzerland)
Applicant : Michael Piotrowski
Other partners : Davide Picca
Drawing on a sample of composers from the period 1600-2000 from the corpus initiative of the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Laboratory (DCML), the project aims to develop formal metamodels of the multifaceted phenomenon of human mobility and mobility of ideas such as musical models. Unlike previous approaches, we seek to model mobility in ways that reflect its geopolitical complexity, take into account uncertainty and conflicting interpretations, and are computationally achievable using semantic Web technologies.
CROSSINGS: computational interoperability for intangible and tangible cultural heritag
2021 - 2021 (12 mois)
grant-giving organisation : CROSS - EPFL/UNIL (Switzerland)
Applicant : Davide Picca
Other partners : Alessandro Adamou, Sarah Kenderdine
Since UNESCO affirmed the importance of intangible heritage in 2003, efforts to shape folklore, tradition, experience and other forms of cultural heritage have been scarce. The primary objective of this project is to explore the potential for standardization of the consumption of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, by substantiating an intangible heritage use case for the Living Martial Arts Archive in Hong Kong (a collaboration between EPFL's Experimental Museology Laboratory and the Goushou International Association). It will do this by developing an ontological model of intangible heritage that combines aspects of haptics, pose and movement with traits of tradition and folklore, and generating a connected knowledge graph for Kung Fu heritage.
The Seven Sages of Rome in the Medieval World
2022 - 2022 (12 mois)
grant-giving organisation : UNIL (Switzerland)
Applicant : Rory Critten
Other partners : Davide Picca
This project aims to collect bibliographic data from a variety of sources to create a database of manuscripts and early prints containing the Seven Elders of Rome, along with the place and approximate date of their production. The data will be used to create a series of maps and other visual products showing the spread of the Seven Elders in the centuries following the Middle Ages. An overall objective will be to contribute to the current shift in medieval studies that move away from national histories and toward a new appreciation of the connections and transfer points that bind the wider pre-modern world.
