Hello! I'm Marilena Daquino, assistant professor (RTDb) at the University of Bologna

I work at the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc) of the University of Bologna. I have a PhD in Library and Information Science + Computer Science. My research focuses on the application of Semantic Web technologies to Humanities research data.

2013

My background is in history and library and information science. I am fond of archival studies + semantic web!

2014

Since 2014 I am a researcher in digital humanities at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, where I'm a member of the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre.

2017

I used to work as a metadata specialist and ontology engineer at the Multimedia Research Centre (CRR-MM) of the University of Bologna for three years. I was a visiting PhD student at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University (UK).
Since 2017 I am a member of the editorial board of Umanistica Digitale, the Italian Journal of Digital Humanities.

2019

My PhD is on digital hermeneutics, specifically, on the usage of Linked Open Data belonging to art historical photo archives to compare and recommend authoritative artwork attributions. During this period I had the pleasure to collaborate with several universities, consortia of museums (Linked.art) and photo archives (PHAROS).

Now

I teach Information Visualization and Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna.
Within the /DH.arc centre, I offer consultancy to scholars on knowledge organisation and data management.

if you want to know more, have a look at my CV

last update: september 2020

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What I like to work on (with plenty of awesome colleagues!)

  • Art, Archives, Ontologies - more
  • Text, Editions, Linked Open Data - more
  • Scholarly data, Citations, Open Science - more
  • Music and Programming - more
  • in progress - more


Art, Archives, Ontologies

ARTchives

An ongoing project to create the knowledge graph of art historians’ archives for historiographical research purposes. It is based on a native Linked Open Data cataloguing system bespokely developed for the project (an early version of CLEF), that leverages on-the-fly data integration with Wikidata and NLP techniques to enrich cataloguers' descriptions with structured data. Several institutions contribute to the project, namely: the Federico Zeri Foundation (Bologna, Italy), University Roma Tre (Rome, Italy), Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy), Biblioteca Hertziana (Rome, Italy), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Florence, Italy), Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, USA). Recently, we leveraged the dataset to develop a recommending system for relations discovery, so as to understand which historians and collections are likely to be connected.

github
homepage
article (DSH 2022)

mAuth

mAuth is a proof-of-concept semantic crawler and recommending system of artwork attributions. It allows to explore art historians' attributions - including motivations, bibliographic references, and images - about artworks of the Modern Art (15-16th centuries). It evaluates the methodology underpinning decisions made by art historical data providers, and ranks attributions according to their authoritativeness.

github
homepage (under maintainance)
book
PhD thesis

Federico Zeri's catalogue Linked Open Dataset

The Linked Open Dataset of the Federico Zeri's photo archive. The dataset includes cataloguing data about 30K photographs depicting around 19K artworks from the Modern era, detailed information about artists and photographers, and the complete list of competing artwork attributions provided by the historians that visited the archive over time.

homepage
article (JOCCH 2017)

HiCO ontology

An extension of the PROV Ontology for describing hermeneutical aspects underlying scholars' competing attributions, such as motivations, sources, and relations with other claims. Currently used to describe art historians' attributions in the Zeri's dataset, in the digital edition of Paolo Bufalini's notebook, and Vespasiano da Bisticci's letters (and more!)

ontology
article (2015)

FEntry and OAEntry ontology

The ontologies developed to describe cataloguing records issued by the Federico Zeri's Foundation about photographs (FEntry) and artworks depicted in photographs (OAEntry). The ontologies are an extension of CIDOC-CRM, and include several other existing ontologies, such as the SPAR Ontologies, PROV-O, and HiCO.

FEntry ontology
OAEntry ontology
article (JOCCH 2017)

PROles ontology

An ontology for the description of political relationships between people. Building upon existing ontological models, such as the Publishing Roles Ontology (PRO), PROV-O and the N-ary Participation ontology design pattern, PRoles provides a clear ontological characterisation of political roles and related events, establishing a link between the description of such concepts and the documents from which this information is extracted.

article (IRCDL 2014)

Scripting ontology

An ontology for describing the design and the execution of citizen curation activities, such as engagement activities with museum visitors, web applications for eliciting users' interpretations (e.g. via storytelling, question answering), social media interactions.

ontology

Text, Editions, Linked Open Data

Paolo Bufalini's notebook edition

A digital scholarly edition of the notebook of Paolo Bufalini that leverages Semantic Web technologies for creating, serving and analysing data underlying the full-text of the notebook. The dataset is based on ontologies such as the SPAR ontologies, HiCO, PROV-O, and the Nanopublication data model to (1) represent intertextual and intratextual relations, and (2) trace cited authors' opinions and claims on the history of literature. The web application is currently being restyled to experiment generous interfaces while close reading the text.

homepage
article (UD 2019)

Vespasiano da Bisticci's letters

A digital scholarly edition of the correspondance of Vespasiano da Bisticci. Data are served as Linked Open Data and include detailed information on the network of addressees, places, debated manuscripts, and peculiarities of the lexicon.

homepage
article (griseldaonline 2021)

Past collaborations as metadata expert and web developer

IGCyr-GVCyr

The database of the Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica. It includes two corpora of XML/Epidoc documents, namely: The Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica (IGCyr) and the Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica (GVCyr).

homepage

La Dama Boba

The digital edition and archive of Lope de Vega's works. Based on XML/TEI documents of 3 witnesses and a critical edition.

homepage

Scholarly data, Citations, Open Science

The Open Citations Data Model (OCDM)

The OpenCitations Data Model (OCDM) was initially developed in 2016 to describe the data in the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC). In recent years OpenCitations has developed other datasets while OCDM has been adopted by external projects. OCDM has been expanded to accommodate metadata requirements of the Open Biomedical Citations in Context Corpus project (CCC).

ontology
documentation
article (ISWC 2020)

The Open Biomedical Citations in Context corpus (CCC)

CCC is a Linked Open Dataset funded by the Wellcome Trust that enriches the OpenCitations Corpus (OCC) with detailed information on in-text references and their semantic context, making it possible to analyse references that are cited together at different points of the article (e.g. Introduction, Methods), and to distinguish the function of the citation.

homepage
SPARQL endpoint
REST API

RAMOSE, an API manager over SPARQL endpoints

A tool to create REST APIs over SPARQL endpoints via source-specific textual configuration files which enable the querying of SPARQL endpoints via Web RESTful API calls that return either JSON or CSV-formatted data. The objective is to hide the complexity of SPARQL and RDF from Web users.

github
article (Sem Web 2022)

BCITE

BCite is a web interface to support journal editors in the management and correction of bibliographic references, and allows the creation of open citation data compliant with the OpenCitations Data Model

github
article (ISWC 2018)

Music and Programming

The Polifonia webportal

A web portal for music heritage discovery based on Linked Open Data produced by several pilot projects, reconciled with major data sources (e.g. Wikidata). The portal offers generous interfaces to foster serendipitous discovery and support lay users in the engagement with music heritage data.

portal

CLEF - Crowdsourcing Linked Open Data

CLEF is a Linked Open Data native platform that allows anonymous and registered users to contribute with cataloguing data to an open access catalogue. The platform is easy to install and can be reused in any project with any ontology. It offers a number of useful features, e.g. field autocompletion from online sources (Wikidata, geonames, etc.), Named Entity Recognition, web archiving (via Internet Archive). Currently it is used in three project, namely ARTchives, musoW, and GEL (a digest of bibliographic data for education and learning)

musoW
GEL catalogue
article (JOCCH 2022)

MELODY - make me a Linked Open Data story

MELODY is an online platform for data storytelling that leverages Linked Open Data to realise blog-alike stories, which are published for free on an online catalogue. The original motivation for MELODY was to integrate stories made by music experts in the context of the Polifonia H2020 project. Nonetheless the platform is open to any user, and stories can be published online for free or downloaded.

dashboard
catalogue

musoW - A crowdsourced catalogue of musical data on the web

musoW is an online catalogue based on a Linked Open Data native platform called CLEF, that allows anonymous and registered users to contribute with cataloguing data on music data sources available online. It supports music journalists, scholars, and developers to retrieve sources, services, and their access rights.

homepage
article (JOCCH 2022)

musoW survey

A survey of online musical resources served as Linked Open Data via a preliminary catalogue. The initial catalogue is now superceeded by musow 2.0.

homepage
article (ISWC 2017)

Semantic Web MIDI tape

CLI application to query and add data to the MIDI knowledge graph by playing your MIDI instrument and transforming MIDI tracks into Linked Open Data. After playing, the tool recommends related resources to users.

github
article (ISWC 2018)
poster (DLFM 2018)

in progress

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2024

Journal article MArco Grasso, Giulia Renda, Marilena Daquino. 2024. From Data Complexity to User Simplicity: A Framework for Linked Open Data Reconciliation and Serendipitous Discovery. Umanistica Digitale (in press)

Journal article Roberto Balzani, Sebastian Barzaghi, Gabriele Bitelli, Federica Bonifazi, Alice Bordignon, Luca Cipriani, Simona Colitti, Federica Collina, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Fabbri, Bruno Fanini, Filippo Fantini, Daniele Ferdani, Giulia Fiorini, Elena Formia, Anna Forte, Federica Giacomini, Valentina Alena Girelli, Bianca Gualandi, Ivan Heibi, Alessandro Iannucci, Rachele Manganelli Del Fà, Arcangelo Massari, Arianna Moretti, Silvio Peroni, Sofia Pescarin, Giulia Renda, Diego Ronchi, Mattia Sullini, Maria Alessandra Tini, Francesca Tomasi, Laura Travaglini, Luca Vittuari. 2024. Saving temporary exhibitions in virtual environments: The Digital Renaissance of Ulisse Aldrovandi–Acquisition and digitisation of cultural heritage objects. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 32.

2023

Journal articleGiulia Renda, Marilena Daquino, Valentina Presutti. 2023. Melody: A Platform for Linked Open Data Visualisation and Curated Storytelling. Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext.

Journal article Lucia Giagnolini, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Mambelli, and Francesca Tomasi. 2023. Exploratory methods for relation discovery in archival data. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38:1. DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqac036.

Journal article Marilena Daquino, Mari Wigham, Enrico Daga, Lucia Giagnolini, and Francesca Tomasi. 2022. Clef. a linked open data native system for crowdsourcing. JOCCH 16:3.

Book chapter Sofia Baroncini, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Tomasi. 2023. "Are domain-specific theoretical approaches valuable for the application of new computational methods?". Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen: Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023, Berlin, 23.-26.5.

2022

Journal article Tommaso Battisti, Marilena Daquino. 2022. Gli autori della letteratura italiana contemporanea sul grande e piccolo schermo. Un’analisi quantitativa. Umanistica digitale, 13.

Conference proceedings Simone Persiani, Marilena Daquino, Silvio Peroni. 2022. A Programming Interface for Creating Data According to the SPAR Ontologies and the OpenCitations Data Model. European Semantic Web Conference. Springer:Cham.

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, Ivan Heibi, Silvio Peroni, and David Shotton. 2022. Creating Restful APIs over SPARQL endpoints with RAMOSE. Semantic Web Journal, 13:2. DOI: 10.3233/SW-210439.

2021

Conference proceedings Marilena Daquino, Valentina Pasqual, Francesca Tomasi, Fabio Vitali. 2021. Expressing Without Asserting in the Arts. IRCDL 22.

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena, Lucia Giagnolini, and Francesca Tomasi. 2021. ARTchives: a Linked Open Data Native Catalogue of Art Historians’ Archives. Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), vol 3019.

Journal article Daga, Enrico, Luigi Asprino, Rossana Damiano, Marilena Daquino, Belen Diaz Agudo, Aldo Gangemi, Tsvi Kuflik, Antonio Lieto, Anna Maria Marras, Delfina Martinez Pandiani, Paul Mulholland, Silvio Peroni, Sofia Pescarin, and Wecker, Alan. 2021. Integrating citizen experiences in cultural heritage archives: requirements, state of the art, and challenges. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15:1.

Journal article Baroncini, Sofia, Marilena Daquino, and Francesca Tomasi. 2021. Modelling Art Interpretation and Meaning. A Data Model for Describing Iconology and Iconography. AIDAinformazioni

Journal article Daquino, Marilena. 2021. Linked Open Data native cataloguing and archival description. JLIS.it 12:3, pp. 91-104.

2020

Journal article Mulholland, Paul, Enrico Daga, Marilena Daquino, Lily Díaz-Kommonen, Aldo Gangemi, Tsvi Kulfik, Alan J Wecker, Mark Maguire, Silvio Peroni, Sofia Pescarin. 2020. Enabling Multiple Voices in the Museum: Challenges and Approaches. Digital Culture and Society 6:2, pp. 259-266.

Edited book Cota, Giuseppe, Marilena Daquino, and Gianluca Pozzato. 2020. Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning. IOSPress.

Book chapter Carriero, Valentina, Marilena Daquino, Aldo Gangemi, Andrea G. Nuzzolese, Silvio Peroni, Valentina Presutti, Francesca Tomasi. 2020. The landscape of ontology reuse approaches. In Cota G., M. Daquino, and G. Pozzato (eds.), Applications and Practices in Ontology Design, Extraction, and Reasoning. IOSPress, pp. 21-38.

Book chapter Daquino, Marilena, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton, Giovanni Colavizza, Behnam Ghavimi, Anne Lauscher, Philipp Mayr, Matteo Romanello, and Philipp Zumstein. 2020. The OpenCitations data model. In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), pp. 447-463.

Journal article Daquino, Marilena. 2020. "A computational analysis of art historical linked data for assessing authoritativeness of attributions." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 71:7, pp.757-769.

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, Valentina Pasqual, and Francesca Tomasi. 2020. "Knowledge representation of Digital Hermeneutics of archival and literary sources." JLIS.it 10:3, pp. 59-76.

2019

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, Francesca Giovannetti, and Francesca Tomasi. 2019. "Linked Data per le edizioni scientifiche digitali. Il workflow di pubblicazione dell’edizione semantica del quaderno di appunti di Paolo Bufalini." Umanistica Digitale, 4:7. [ITALIAN]

Journal article Daquino, Marilena. 2019. "Art historical photo archives and Semantic Web. Problems, resources and research lines." JLIS.it 10:2, pp. 37-47.

Journal article Carriero, Valentina, Marilena Daquino and Francesca Tomasi. 2019. "Semantic alignment in museums, archives and libraries. The ontologies for describing relationships." JLIS.it 10:1, pp. 72-91.

2018

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena, Ilaria Tiddi, and Silvio Peroni 2018. "Creating Open Citation Data with BCite." In Demidova, E., A. J. Zaveri, and E. Simperl (eds.). Emerging Topics in Semantic Technologies: ISWC 2018 Satellite Events. AKA Verlag Berlin.

Conference proceedings Meroño-Peñuela, Albert, Reinier De Valk, Enrico Daga, Marilena Daquino, and Anna Kent-Muller. 2018. "The semantic web MIDI tape: An interface for interlinking MIDI and context metadata." In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Applications for Audio and Music. Paris:ACM, pp. 24-32.

Conference proceedings Meroño-Peñuela, Albert, Anna Kent-Muller, Reinier de Valk, Marilena Daquino and Enrico Daga. 2018. “A Large-Scale Semantic Library of MIDI Linked Data.” In Page, Kevin (ed.). DLfM '18 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Paris:ACM.

2017

Journal article Daquino, Marilena and Francesca Tomasi. 2017. “Linked Cultural Objects: dagli standard di catalogazione ai modelli per il web of data. Spunti di riflessione dalla Fototeca Zeri.” Umanistica Digitale 1.1

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, et al. 2017. “Enhancing semantic expressivity in the cultural heritage domain: exposing the Zeri Photo Archive as Linked Open Data.” Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) 10.4: 21.

Journal article Mambelli, Francesca and Marilena Daquino. 2017. “Zeri & Lode. Il patrimonio della Fondazione Zeri in Linked Open Data.” IBC 25:1, pp. 1-2.

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena et al. 2017. “Characterizing the Landscape of Musical Data on the Web: state of the art and challenges.” In Second Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web - WHiSe II, 21-25 Oct 2017, Vienna, Austria.

Book chapter Daquino, Marilena. 2017. “Le professioni del lavoro digitale.” In Tullini, Patrizia (eds.). Web e lavoro. profili evolutivi e di tutela. Torino:Giappichelli, pp. 107-122.

Book of abstracts Daquino, Marilena and Francesca Tomasi. 2017. “The Zeri Photo Library in linked open data.” In AIB CILW (eds.). “The universe of cultural resources: between eurekas and concrete actions.” AIB STUDI 57.1, pp. 109-112.

2016

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, and Francesca Tomasi. 2016. “Digital Humanities e Library and Information Science. Through the lens of knowledge organization.” Bibliothecae.it 5.1, pp. 130-150.

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena. 2016. "Photo Archives in Linked Open Data–The Federico Zeri’s Archive Case Study." In Ciancarini, Paolo, Francesco Poggi, Matthew Horridge, Jun Zhao, Tudor Groza, Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, Mathieu d'Aquin and Valentina Presutti (eds.) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Cham:Springer, pp. 219-223.

Book of abstracts Daquino, Marilena, Silvio Peroni, Francesca Tomasi and Fabio Vitali. 2016. “The Project Zeri Photo Archive: Towards a Model for Defining Authoritative Authorship Attributions.” In Digital Humanities 2016: Conference Abstracts, Kraków, Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University, 2016, pp. 472-474.

2015

Journal article Tomasi, Francesca and Marilena Daquino. 2015. “Modellare ontologicamente il dominio archivistico in una prospettiva di integrazione disciplinare.” JLIS.it 6:3, pp. 13-38.

Journal article Tomasi, Francesca, Fabio Ciotti, Marilena Daquino and Maurizio Lana. 2015. “Esplorare semanticamente collezioni culturali: uno studio di fattibilità.” AIDAinformazioni, 3-4, pp. 125-146.

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena and Francesca Tomasi. 2015. “Historical Context Ontology (HiCO): A Conceptual Model for Describing Context Information of Cultural Heritage Objects.” In Communications in Computer and Information Science 544. Berlin:Springer Verlag, pp. 424-436.

Conference proceedings Ciotti, Fabio, Marilena Daquino, and Francesca Tomasi. 2015. "Text Encoding Initiative semantic modeling. A conceptual workflow proposal." In Calvanese D., De Nart D., Tasso C. (eds.). Digital Libraries on the Move. IRCDL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science 612. Cham:Springer.

Conference proceedings Tomasi, Francesca, Fabio Ciotti, Marilena Daquino and Maurizio Lana. 2015. “Using Ontologies as a Faceted Browsing for Heterogeneous Cultural Heritage Collections.” In Proceedings of 1st AI*IA Workshop on Intelligent Techniques At LIbraries and Archives co-located with {XIV} Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, IT@LIA@AI*IA 2015.

Conference proceedings Daquino, Marilena and Francesca Tomasi. 2015. “Ontological Approaches to Information Description and Extraction in the Cultural Heritage Domain.” In Humanities and Their Methods in the Digital Ecosystem (AIUCD ‘14). New York:ACM, 8.

2014

Journal article Daquino, Marilena, Silvio Peroni, Francesca Tomasi and Fabio Vitali. 2014. “Political Roles Ontology (PRoles): Enhancing Archival Authority Records through Semantic Web Technologies.” In Procedia Computer Science 38, pp. 60-67.

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