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Dominic Oldman was the Head and Principal Investigator of the ResearchSpace project at the British Museum and a Senior Curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan. He is an interdisciplinary researcher with a focus on digital research methods and digital historiography. He is now a Director of Kartography CIC which develops and maintains the ResearchSpace system - a new type of contextualising knowledge base system promoting collaborative interdisciplinary research and allowing people to grow and synthesise knowledge that relates to and reveals different aspects of history and society. He is deputy co-chair of the CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) Special Interest Group and is currently a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, History Department. 

Lukas Klic is Head of Digital Humanities Research at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. With a background in Art History, Library Science, and Digital Humanities, his research focuses on digital tools that facilitate the accessibility and interpretation of cultural heritage, leveraging Linked Open Data (LOD) to allow for the cross-pollination of research data. At I Tatti he leads a number of projects involving Linked Open Data, computer vision, natural language processing, geospatial mapping, and digital publishing. He is the Technical Architect of Pharos, the International Consortium of Photo Archives, a group of fourteen North American and European art historical photo archives currently building an open and freely accessible digital research platform for the history of art. He has worked in the library system of Harvard University for over twenty years in various capacities, and holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from Simmons University and a PhD in Computer Science from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with a concentration in Digital Humanities.

Gianmarco Spinaci is a PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem and holds a Master’s in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Management from Università di Bologna. Since 2019, Gianmarco has been associated with Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, holding the position of Digital Humanities Research Associate and, from 2022, Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer, where he is building Digital Research Infrastructures for the NEH grant Metapolis and the ERC Starting Grant VeNiss: Venice’s Nissology. Among his interests are integrating advanced Artificial Intelligence methodologies into vast datasets within humanities domains, commitment to exploring the field of Linked Data, particularly in the context of cultural heritage data, and emphasizing ethical considerations such as openness of science. His initiatives revolve around knowledge discovery, encompassing the processes of mining, exploring, categorizing, and visualizing humanities data and establishing digital infrastructures.

Remo Grillo is a Phd candidate in the Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem programme at the University of Bologna, and a collaborator as Digital Humanities Researcher and Software Engineer at I Tatti - The Harvard university Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. He worked as a Full-stack Web Developer while attending the University of Naples Federico II and Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with a thesis on Logic, applied to a digital critical edition of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein. His research focuses on the application of state of the art Artificial Intelligence to knowledge graphs, as well as on algorithms related to language, music, and prototyping.

Laura Pandolfo is Assistant Professor at the University of Sassari. In 2017, Laura obtained her PhD from the University of Genoa. Her research interests include Semantic Web and Linked Data, Knowledge Representation, Ontology Design. Complementing her research activity, she has served as a reviewer of international conference and peer-reviewed journals, such as IJCAI and Semantic Web Journal, and in the organizing committee of different international conferences.

Alessandro Adamou is Digital Humanities Scientist at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History, where he plays a key role in the interoperability between the data infrastructures of the various projects within the Institute. His main expertise is in the field of data science, with a specialisation in the areas of the Semantic Web, knowledge graphs, ontological networks and their computational and cognitive applications to the humanities. At the Hertziana, he leads the [KG]^2 (Knowledge Graph|Kunstgeschichte) initiative. Alessandro's core research interests include identifying ways to formally model data about intangible aspects of cultural heritage, including human experience, tradition, and aesthetic interpretation. In collaboration with the Royal College of Music, he developed LED (AHRC), the first dataset on the documented experience of listening to music built through crowdsourcing and Linked Data; he also contributed formal models for the representation of reading projects with the READ-IT project (JPI-CH). He is also involved in various international dissemination activities for the digital humanities, including the organising committee of the HyperText conference (2023-24) and the WHiSe workshop series (2016-20). Previously, Alessandro was a lecturer in computer science at the University of Galway (Ireland) and a researcher at The Open University (Milton Keynes, UK) and at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Rome). In these prior posts, he explored transversal applications of Linked Data to several other domains, such as Learning and Education, Smart Cities—his work on which has attracted several awards and nominations—, Content Management, and Industry 4.0.

ICT expert, Director of Design and Implementation at Promoter S.r.l., Antonella Fresa has been working on European cooperation projects since the nineties of the past century. She currently coordinates the Eureka3D “European Union’s REKonstructed Contents in 3D” project, funded by the Digital Europe Programme and Networking Coordinator of SECreTour “Sustainable, Engaging and Creative Tourism as a driver for a better future in rural and remote areas” project, funded by the Horizon Europe Programme. Since 2002, Technical Coordinator, Communication and Networking Manager of projects in the field of digital cultural heritage, including: participatory approaches in culture, cultural heritage-led urban regeneration, cultural tourism, citizen science, smart cities, digital preservation, e-Infrastructures. From 1999 to 2002, Project Officer at the European Commission in Brussels. Previously, adviser of innovation agencies, Italian and European enterprises, universities and research centres. From 1980 until 1989 researcher at Olivetti in Pisa, Ivrea and Cupertino (CA, USA). She regularly serves as independent expert and evaluator for EC, national and regional programmes. Since 2021 Antonella is contracted Professor at the University of Pisa for the course of Territorial Politics for Tourism and Cultural Management. Vice-President of PHOTOCONSORTIUM International Association for Valuing Photographic Heritage and Accredited Aggregator of Europeana.

Etienne Posthumus is a Senior Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Information Service Engineering. Before that, he was responsible for Digital Publishing innovations at Brill Publishers from Leiden, The Netherlands. He is the creator and maintainer of the online ICONCLASS multi-lingual subject classification system for Digital Art History, and has extensive experience in cultural heritage computing applications and (meta)data. He has worked in industry as a consultant for SANOMA publishers, Mediahuis Nederland, PWC, Siemens Nixdorf, INET Bridge and in academia as a Research Software Engineer for Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and TU Delft. He completed a master's degree in Book History and Manuscript studies at the University of Amsterdam (2015), and a bachelor computer science (cum laude) at the University of Johannesburg (1994).
He likes to make simple solutions to complex problems.