Hello! I'm Marilena Daquino, assistant professor (RTDa) 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
What I like to work on (with plenty of awesome colleagues!)
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Polifonia webportal
A web portal for music heritage discovery
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.
Journal article Marilena Daquino, Mari Wigham, Enrico Daga, Lucia Giagnolini, and Francesca Tomasi. 2022. Clef. a linked open data native system for crowdsourcing. JOCCH (in press)
Journal article Lucia Giagnolini, Marilena Daquino, Francesca Mambelli, and Francesca Tomasi. 2022. Exploratory methods for relation discovery in archival data. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (in press)
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.
