Lucia Giagnolini is an archivist at the Historical Archive of the University of Bologna, where she completed her PhD in the programme "Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem" in March 2026, with a research project on the representation of digital-born author archives. She holds a degree in Digital Humanities and a Diploma in Archival Science, Palaeography, and Diplomatics awarded by the State Archive of Modena. Her research interests encompass the modelling and representation of archival data — particularly within the context of the Semantic Web — as well as the processes of acquisition, management, preservation, and valorisation of born-digital personal archives. Throughout her academic career, she has presented her work at conferences and symposia in the fields of Digital Humanities and Archival Science.
Since March 2023, she has collaborated with the Centro Manoscritti of the University of Pavia on the management of the Pavia Archivi Digitali (PAD) project, an experience that gave rise to the volume: Antonelli, Giuseppe, Lucia Giagnolini, and Francesco Milone. The Intangible Papers: Authorial Philology and Born-Digital Texts. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2025.
She has contributed to several scientific and digital projects, including:
- The Digital Library of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) at the University of Bologna.
- The ARTchives platform, developed for the Zeri Foundation, for the analysis and visualisation of historical archival data through Semantic Web technologies.
- The Digital WHOmanities project, dedicated to critical reflection on professional identity within the field of Digital Humanities.
She has also engaged in teaching and seminar activities, delivering lectures on topics related to digital archival science and the representation of cultural data at the University of Siena (November 2024), the University of Pisa (November 2024), the School of Archival Science, Palaeography, and Diplomatics of Mantua (May 2024), and the University of Bologna (February 2024), the University of Turin (December 2025) and the University of Rome La Sapienza (March 2026).
Since 2022, she has served as a teaching tutor for the Master's degree programme in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna.
She is a member of /DH.arc – the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre at the University of Bologna, and serves on the scientific committee of the Istituto di Storia Contemporanea della Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino.
