Operational and scientific facilities

Laboratories

Department of Cultural Heritage (DBC) laboratories:

• aDNA Lab
• BONES LAB
• Jewish epigraphy and codicology
• FrameLAB. Multimedia & Digital Storytelling
• ”MESE” Byzantine studies laboratory
• Diagnostic laboratory
• Music laboratory
• LUDI - University Documentation and Information Laboratory
• PAST - Public Archaeology and Social Transmission

Department of Physics and Astronomy (DIFA) laboratories
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences (BiGeA) laboratories
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM) laboratories
Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" (CHIM) laboratories

Library holdings

The Campus Library is divided between two sites: Palazzo Corradini (anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, library science, conservation and restoration, law, building engineering, music, oriental studies, history, literary and linguistic studies) and the Environmental Sciences site (biology, chemistry and related sciences, environmental law, ecology, geology, hydrology, meteorology, oceanography, environmental sciences).

Special collections: “Agostino Pertusi”, “Asmussen”, “Gershevitch”, “Tumidei”.

Ravenna Campus Central Library – University of Bologna: 743 periodicals in the National Collective Archive of Periodicals (ACNP), of which 222 currently active.

E-RESOURCES

Databases

• All humanities-related databases provided by the University of Bologna, including those developed by DBC teachers, such as Corago – Repertory and archive of Italian opera librettos from 1600 to 1900
• Corago LOD (Linked Open Data)
• RePIM - Repertory of Italian Poetry set to Music 1500-1700
• DBC’s collections of music recordings

Software specific to the research areas covered

• Software for Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and System Dynamics Geomagic Design X (3D modelling)
• Avizo (tomographic data segmentation)
• Viewbox (geometric morphometry analysis)
• CAD (Computer-Aided Design)
• Medtool (trabecular biomechanics analysis)
• “LCA for Expert” software for modelling and assessing the environmental impact of products and processes through Life Cycle Assessment
• 3D processing and modelling software (from digital photogrammetry and different types of scanning)

Spaces and resources for PhD students and electronic computing

• Computer and Multimedia Laboratory
• Virtual Anthropology Section (at the Osteoarchaeology and Palaeoanthropology Laboratory)
• Study with two computers reserved for PhD students
• Shared workspaces are available to PhD students at the Sartori Laboratories in via S. Alberto 163
• Laboratories with high-performance workstations