Building Knowledge Landscapes Across the Digital Humanities: /DH.arc & DHLab in Dialogue
This three-day seminar establishes a methodological exchange between two prominent Digital Humanities research centers: the DHLab (Amsterdam) and the DHARC (Bologna). The program brings together leading scholars to examine and compare approaches in Knowledge Extraction, Organization, Production, and Visualization within Humanities and Cultural Heritage domains.
Seminar Program
Day 1
November 5, 2025
Opening and Keynote
09:30 - 10:30
Welcome
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Prof. Francesca Tomasi
SESSION I: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND VISUALIZATION
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
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
tbd - knowledge organization del catalogo Zeri
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
Born Digital Archives
Lucia Giagnolini
DH.ARC
SESSION III: Open debate
16:40 - 17:30
Q&A and Final Discussion
17:30
Conclusion
Day 2
November 6, 2025
Opening and Keynote
10:00 - 10:30
Welcome
10:30 - 11:00
Keynote
Dr. Marieke van Erp
SESSION I: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION
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 of the Van den vos Reynaerde
Andrea Schimmenti
DH.ARC
11:40 - 12:10
Coffee 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
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
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
