Seminars/Distinguished lectures cycle: Elena Spadini, "Dall’idea al progetto: percorsi nella testualità digitale”

https://www.dh.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/prof_dr_spadini_elena/index_ger.html

This series of lectures is dedicated to digital textuality, considered both as an object and as a method of study. 

Programme

First lesson: The Swiss National Science Foundation's Starting Grant project “Bit Philology” (2025-2030) will be presented, illustrating its content and the application process. The aim is to offer participants a behind-the-scenes look at a research project, while introducing the main scientific issues addressed by the project.

Second lesson: Ontologies for digital philology will be explored in depth, with a particular focus on GENO, an ontology developed for author philology and applied to various case studies. This work will be placed in the broader context of the use of semantic web technologies in critical editions.

Third lesson: Through the analysis of case studies, we will show how knowledge of text technologies – from manuscripts to print to digital – and their modes of application allows us to enhance the material aspects of documents, which are sometimes necessary for an accurate understanding and contextualisation of texts and creative processes. In addition, the question of how digital textuality – in particular, early 20th-century experiments in information organisation and late 20th-century experiments in hypertext systems and electronic literature – can offer methodological tools for modelling and representing data in the digital humanities will be addressed.

Elena Spadini is an assistant professor of digital humanities at the University of Bern. Prior to arriving in Bern, she worked in research and research support in Amsterdam, Lausanne, and Basel. She has a background in Romance philology, and her research interests range from medieval manuscripts to contemporary authors. She is currently leading the "Bit Philology" SNSF Starting Grant project, which explores born-digital holdings in literary archives in Switzerland and the methodological shift involved in working with born-digital sources instead of paper ones. She is a guest editor of RIDE (https://ride.i-d-e.de/) and has published work on various aspects of digital philology and digital humanities, such as automatic collation, the semantic web, tool criticism, data modeling, and reuse. 
For a list of the main publications, please visit: https://www.dh.unibe.ch/about_us/people/prof_dr_spadini_elena/index_eng.html.