Abstract
The goal of the ATLAS is to create a knowledge graph of the international scholarly research on Digital Humanities and Italian Cultural Heritage leveraged in a Web portal that fosters users’ interpretation and engagement. Indeed, Digital Humanities (DH) is a research field focused on the realisation of Web-based projects wherein to collect authoritative data related to our heritage. However, research outputs are often not easy to discover, and risk obsolescence if not well documented and based on shared guidelines and standards. Moreover, projects are often self-referential, do not follow metadata standards and best practices, and users’ experience is limited in exploration, since interlinking and explanations - including contradictory statements or disagreement - are missing. In this project we want to show the potential deriving from having shared protocols, good practices, guidelines and evaluation frameworks in the Humanities. A pool of selected resources were harvested, mined, and reengineered with state-of-the-art Semantic Web technologies and Natural Language Processing methods in order to define guidelines for excellent projects and create a golden set of reference projects in the Digital Humanities. Resources include those produced in the international academic context, such as digital textual corpora and editions (mostly based on the TEI/XML standard) as well as datasets following Linked Open Data principles and databases, but also ontologies and tools adopted in the community. The result is a set of guidelines (https://dh-atlas.github.io/guidelines) and a White book (https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8808), presenting results of the pilot study, recommended metadata, and suggested methods for creating FAIR digital resources in the Digital Humanities. Data extracted from the selected resources have been be reconciled with international authority records (e.g. VIAF) and open data sources (e.g. Wikidata) to facilitate reuse and the development of mashup applications. Enhanced data are preserved and leveraged in a dedicated platform, i.e. the Atlas catalogue (https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/atlas/), which collects, enriches, and provides information extracted from aforementioned online resources to support exploration and discovery of the landscape of DH projects. The ATLAS leverages existing digital heritage resources (e.g CLEF, https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/479251315) to develop an innovative system wherein scholarly projects are findable in new non-native environments, while allowing scholars, teachers, and students to perform data-driven meta-research on high-quality scholarly data. New digital resources can be added on the platform by the broader public, which are admitted into the Atlas on the basis of a peer review process.
Dettagli del progetto
Responsabile scientifico: Marilena Daquino
Strutture Unibo coinvolte:
Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica
Coordinatore:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Contributo totale di progetto: Euro (EUR) 176.415,00
Contributo totale Unibo: Euro (EUR) 60.095,00
Durata del progetto in mesi: 24
Data di inizio
17/10/2023
Data di fine:
16/10/2025
