Adele Gorini

Adele is a PhD Student at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna. She conducts research in archival science, with a particular focus on the management, description, and preservation of born-digital personal archives.

Graduated in Modern Literature in 2020 from the University of Bologna, in 2022 she obtained with honors a Master's Degree in Book and Document Science from the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna, with a thesis titled "The Formation of Digital Archives of Design Professionals."
In March 2024, she earned a Level II Master’s Degree in Training, Management and Preservation of Digital Archives (FGCAD) from the University of Macerata with a final grade of 110 cum laude.
She also attended the Advanced Training Course in Contemporary Archival Studies at the Central State Archives for the academic year 2023/2024.

Since October 2024, she has been engaged in research at the Centro Manoscritti of the University of Pavia, where she contributes to the creation of archival inventories for born-digital fonds of contemporary writers as part of the PAD (Pavia Archivi Digitali) project.

As a PhD candidate, she collaborates with the International Research Center on Born-Digital Personal Archives and the ALDiNa Group – Archivi Letterari Digitali Nativi.

In April 2024, she was appointed to the Expert Group on Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness (EGEMDP) of the ICA – International Council on Archives.

She participated in the ADISPRO Working Group on the digital and hybrid archives of design studios, organized by ANAI, contributing to the drafting of the "Guidelines for the Formation, Management, and Preservation of Digital and Hybrid Archives of Design Studios" (2023).
(Available at: https://anai.org/vita-associativa/gruppi-di-lavoro-e-di-coordinamento/ )

• A. Gorini, L. Giagnolini, "Under the Surface: Interpreting Technical Metadata as Archival Narrative", in iPRES2025: The 21st International Conference On Digital Preservation, Wellington (Nuova Zelanda), 04/11/2025. [expected]
• S. Allegrezza, A. Del Bianco e A. Gorini, “Archiving Born-Digital Correspondence: Challeges and Strategies for Managing and Preserving Instant Messaging in Personal Digital Archives” in International Council on Archives Barcellona Congress 2025, Barcellona (Spain), 30/10/2025.
• S. Allegrezza, A. Del Bianco e A. Gorini, “Il paradosso del digitale”, in Macerata Humanties Festival, Macerata (Italy), 16/10/2025.
• A. Gorini, “Archivi nativi digitali di persona: sfide e prospettive per la gestione e conservazione”, in PhD City Fest, Ravenna (Italy), 26/09/2025.
• A. Gorini, M. Catapano, "From Creation to Preservation: How to Safeguard Contemporary Electronic Music Compositions", in 2025 International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Congress, Salizburg (Austria), 11/07/2025.
• A. Gorini, "Conferire il digitale: due approcci a confronto" in AIDUSA – Associazione Italiana Docenti Universitari Scienze Archivistiche, Macerata (Italy), 29/05/2025.
• S. Allegrezza, F. Boschetti, E. Carbé, A. Del Bianco, L. Giagnolini, M. Giglio, A. Gorini, T. Mancinelli and F. Tomasi, “Mapping for Understanding: the ALDiNa Project”, in BDCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives And Memory, London, 03/04/2025.
• A. Gorini, “Carte dalle Miniere: tipologie documentarie e prospettive di ricerche”, in Archivi: Miniere di Futuro, Sassoferrato (Italy), 21/03/2025.
• S. Allegrezza, A. Del Bianco, A. Gorini, “Verso un futuro digitale sostenibile: come ottimizzare l’uso di e-mail, social e instant messaging”, in Notte Europea dei Ricercatori, Ravenna (Italy), 27/09/2024.
• A. Gorini e M. Catapano, “Dealing with Software: Archiving Challenges in the World of Electronic Music Composition”, in International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives’ 55th Annual Conference, Valencia (Spain), 26/09/2024.
• A. Gorini, “Digital Preservation e Sostenibilità Ambientale”, in: Me.Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti, Venezia, Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, 2024, pp. 9-14 - 416 (atti di: Me.Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti, Catania, 28-30 maggio 2024).
• A. Gorini, The role of libraries for PDA, in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS, «CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS», 2024, 3643, pp. 226-230 (atti di: 20th Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science, IRCDL 2024, Bressanone - Brixen, Italia, 2024).

Since 2023, she has been a tutor at the Summer School in Web and Social Media Archiving and Preservation at the University of Bologna.

She has participated in numerous projects for the arrangement and inventorying of private, institutional, and municipal archives, including:

• Fondo “Comitato per l’Edizione Nazionale degli scritti di Renato Serra”, Cesena

• Fondo “Ing. Luciano Ravaglia”, Forlì

• Fondo “Prof. Biagio Dradi Maraldi”, Cesena

• Fondo “Cino Pedrelli”, Cesena

• Records management archive of the Municipality of Comacchio, Comacchio

• ANMIG Archive – Rimini Section, Rimini

• Since 2022, member of ANAI

• Since 2024, member of ICA and AIUCD