Francesca Tomasi is Assistant Professor at the Department of
Classical Philology and Italian Studies (University of Bologna).
She has a degree in Preservation of cultural heritage (archive and
libraries), a postgraduate in the school of Palaeography,
Diplomatic and Archivist, a specialization in Computer
Science, a PhD in Italian Studies. Her main research interest
covers the study of digital text representation, computational
models for Web dissemination of textual documents and images and
implementation in information systems. She teaches, from 2006,
“Digital humanities”, “Archive and Computer” and “Multimedia
production” at the Faculty of Italian Studies. She is member of:
the scientific committee of the Italian Association on Digital
Humanities (“Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale”); the
PhD in Digital Humanties for Medieval Studies; the Scientific
Committee of the Research Center on Classic Reception (“La
permanenza del Classico”) University of Bologna; the Scientific
Committee of the Center for Research on Multimedia (CRR-MM),
University of Bologna; the Strategy Committee of Unibo Web Portal;
the Program committee of IRCDL (Italian Research Conference on
Digital Libraries) and the Scientific Committee of the Leipzig
School for Culture and Technology. She is also responsible for the
digital humanities section of the magazine Griseldaonline and she's
visiting researcher at DDH (Department of Digital Humanities) at
King's College London. In 2013 she organized the international
workshop DH-CASE 2013. "Collaborative Annotations in Shared
Environment: metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital
Humanities" (Co-located with doceng '13). She join now the project
"Authorship, variants, style: textual analysis between philology,
linguistics, mathematics and computer science" under grant
agreement FARB 2013. She participated in various conferences in
digital humanities and published several contributions in the
field, including the monographs: Metodologie informatiche e
discipline umanistiche, Carocci, Roma 2008; D. Fiormonte, T.
Numerico, F. Tomasi, L'umanista digitale, Il Mulino, Bologna
2010.
Academic profile
A.A.1996-1997: Degree in Preservation of Cultural
Heritage (archives and libraries) - University of Bologna with
honourable mention and dignity of press. Title: Computational
objectives in literary texts critic and analysis. Some
applications to Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti
Novelle Porrettane.
A.A. 1997-1998: Postgraduate in Archivist (School of
Palaeography, Diplomatic and Archivist - State Archive of
Modena).
A.A. 1998-1999: Specialization in Computer Science -
University of Bologna (Faculty of Computer Science).
A.A. 1999-2003: PhD in Italian Studies (Digital edition
of a collection of XV century letters written by Vespasiano da
Bisticci) - University of Bologna.
2001-2006: Computer Technician of the Department of
Classical Studies - University of Bologna.
From 2006 (underway):
Assistant Professor (Systems
of information elaboration) - University of Bologna.
