Building Knowledge Landscapes Across the Digital Humanities
/DH.arc and DHLab in dialogue
Three days of seminars and workshops, exploring key research and practices in Digital Humanities, establishing a methodological exchange between two leading research centers, the /DH.arc (Bologna) and the DHLab (Amsterdam). Designed for researchers, students, cultural heritage professionals, and information and knowledge engineers.
Attendance is free, but spots are limited.
Reserve your place via the form below or by contacting know.land.unibo@gmail.com.
The seminar will also be streamed online. Please note that registration via the form is required to receive the streaming link.
The form closes October 20th.
Day 1
November 5, 2025
Opening and Keynote
Keynote Chair: Paola Italia
10:00 - 10:30
Welcome
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Prof. Francesca Tomasi
SESSION I: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND VISUALIZATION
Session Chair: Joris van Zundert
11:00 - 11:20
Literary Constraints and Combinatory Structures: Towards a Semantic Model
Enrica Bruno
/DH.arc
11:20 - 11:40
Encoding documents as Graphs using Markup
Ronald Haentjens Dekker
DHLab
11:40 - 12:10
Coffee Break
12:10 - 12:30
Copyright and Computation: Rethinking Gadda through Open Data and Visualization
Lorenzo Sabatino, Martina Pensalfini
/DH.arc
12:30 - 12:50
Analyzing semantic change through centuries in Cultural Heritage documents
Jiaqi Zhu
DHLab
12:50 - 13:00
Q&A
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break
SESSION II: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND VISUALIZATION II
Session Chair: Marijn Koolen
14:30 - 14:50
From Words to Images: A Framework for Modeling Ekphrasis
Maria Francesca Bocchi, Carlo Teo Pedretti
/DH.arc
14:50 - 15:10
Tracing the Art Market: A Digital-Semantic Workflow for the Zeri Foundation’s Historical Auction Records (1879-1929)
Valentina Rossetti, Valentina Pasqual
/DH.arc
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Experimenting a semi-automatic approach based on online surveys to formalise unstructured knowledge in linked data
Arianna Moretti, Sebastian Barzaghi
/DH.arc
16:00 - 16:20
From Data to Meaning: Narrative Visualization for Critical Thinking in Semantic Web Learning
Giulia Renda
/DH.arc
16:20 - 16:40
Representing Born-digital Archives: from File Systems to Knowledge Graphs
Lucia Giagnolini
/DH.arc
SESSION III: Open debate
Debate Chair: Paolo Bonora
16:40 - 17:30
Q&A and Final Discussion
17:30
Conclusion
Day 2
November 6, 2025
Opening and Keynote
Keynote Chair: Francesca Tomasi
10:00 - 10:30
Welcome
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Marieke van Erp
SESSION I: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION
Session Chair: Fabio Vitali
11:00 - 11:20
Hardships in Narratological Modeling and Literary Language Processing
Joris van Zundert
DHLab
11:20 - 11:40
Knowledge Extraction of Digital Hermeneutics: the Case of the Van den vos Reynaerde
Andrea Schimmenti
/DH.arc
11:40 - 12:10
Break
12:10 - 12:30
Formulaic language in historical political-administrative corpora
Marijn Koolen
DHLab
12:30 - 12:50
Automatic Extraction and Diachronic Analysis of Olfactory Language
Teresa Paccosi
DHLab
12:50 - 13:00
Q&A
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Break
SESSION II: KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES
Session Chair: Ivan Heibi
14:30 - 14:50
Understanding questions: natural language queries and knowledge graphs
Remo Grillo
/DH.arc
14:50 - 15:10
Research in Action: Practical Approaches to Archival Data
Gauri Bhagwat
DHLab
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
Scholarly Primitives Revisited (again): Building a Taxonomy of Scholarly Digital Objects
Laurent Fintoni
/DH.arc
16:00 - 16:20
Visualizing the Humanities: a survey of visualization practices, narrativity, and critical approaches in Digital Humanities projects
Tommaso Battisti
/DH.arc
SESSION III: Open debate
Debate Chair: Teresa Paccosi
16:20 - 17:30
Q&A and Final Discussion
17:30
Conclusion
Day 3
November 7, 2025
Workshops' Day
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome
09:30 - 11:00
Workshop: Semantic Annotation with INCEpTION
Curated by Teresa Paccosi
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00
Workshop: Analysing multilingual dataset of online book reviews
Curated by Marijn Koolen, Joris van Zundert
13:00 - 13:15
Feedback and Conclusion
The Building Knowledge Landscapes Across the Digital Humanities: /DH.arc & DHLab in Dialogue is a three-day seminar dedicated to relevant topics such as Knowledge Organization, Representation, Visualization, and Extraction within Humanities and Cultural Heritage Domain. Throughout the seminar, particular emphasis will be placed on examining approaches and practices adopted within the Digital Humanities to highlight how diverse perspectives can address similar challenges in the field.
At the core of the initiative is the methodological exchange between two prominent Digital Humanities research centers: the /DH.arc - Digital Humanities Research Center of the University of Bologna and the Digital Humanities Research Lab of Amsterdam. The format alternates between contributions from local speakers and invited guests, creating spaces for open debates and discussions. This structure aims to foster meaningful dialogue between international scholars while creating concrete opportunities for collaborative research development in DH. The series concludes with interactive workshops designed to bridge theoretical frameworks with practical applications in DH research.
The initiative is open to researchers at any level, students, cultural heritage professionals, and information and knowledge engineers. The contributions presented will reflect research at different stages of development, ranging from exploratory ideas and pilot studies to established tools and mature projects.
The first two days will be dedicated to talks following a conference-style format. Each day will open with a keynote introducing the main theme, delivered by the two leading figures of the partner research centers: Prof. Francesca Tomasi (/DH.arc, University of Bologna) and Dr. Marieke van Erp (DHLab, Amsterdam). Day one will explore Knowledge Organisation and Visualisation, while day two will focus on Knowledge Extraction and, more generally, on Knowledge Practices.
The third and final day will be entirely dedicated to two practical workshops. The first workshop will introduce methods of text annotation showing how to build specific datasets from textual data using RDF. The second workshop will explore different technologies for extracting and analysing reading experiences in online book reviews.
This seminar is being organised by PhD students at the University of Bologna as part of the BolDH - Bologna Digital Humanities ecosystem of the University of Bologna, in collaboration with the /DH.arc - Digital Humanities Research Center of the University of Bologna and the Digital Humanities Research Lab of Amsterdam.
