Gianmarco Spinaci

EXPERIENCES

• Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer @ Villa I Tatti, Harvard University
  Jan 2023—Present
  Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities. Working for NEH and ERC grants.
  
• Digital Humanities Research Associate @ Villa I Tatti, Harvard University
  Sep 2019—Dec 2022
  Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanities
  
• Internship @ Centre of Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University
  Jan 2019—Apr 2019
  Profiling Arts & Humanities publications within the main publication indexes
  
• Collaboration project @ Digital and Semantic Publishing Laboratory (DASPlab), Università di Bologna
  May 2017—Sep 2018
  Development of RAJE, a wordprocessor for writing research articles in HTML

• PhD Student in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem @ Università di Bologna
  Nov 2024 — present
  
• MSc Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge @ Università di Bologna, FICLIT
  Sep 2017—Nov 2020
  110 with Honors
  
• BSc Informatica per il management @ Università di Bologna, DISI
  Sep 2013—Mar 2017
  110 with Honors
  
• ISWS - International Semantic Web Research Summer School @ Bertinoro
  Jul 2019

• Excellent knowledge of Semantic Web technologies
  RDF, SPARQL, OWL, JSON-LD, Turtle
  
• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies
  HTML, CSS, XML, XPath, XSLT
  
• Excellent Programming skills
  C#, Java (JDK, Android), Javascript (ES6, Node.js, React, Vue.js), Python, GoLang.
  
• Excellent Machine Learning
  NNs for NLP techniques, Generative LLMs
  
• Excellent knowledge of databases
  MySql, MSsql, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Blazegraph
  
• Good knowledge of GIS software and related technologies
  QGIS, PostGIS
  
• Languages
  Italian (native), English (fluent), Japanese (basic, N5)

• A. Di Iorio, G. Spinaci, and F. Vitali, ‘Multi-layered edits for meaningful interpretation of textual differences’, in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019, Berlin Germany: ACM, Sep. 2019, pp. 1–4. doi: 10.1145/3342558.3345406 [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3342558.3345406] .
• A. Dreßen, E. Sacher, and G. Spinaci, ‘Querying Art History Data on the Web (6): Working with digital images and IIIF’, Querying Museum and Art History Data on the Web, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.22032/DBT.55805 [https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00055805] .
• L. Galeazzo, R. Grillo, and G. Spinaci, ‘A Geospatial and Time-based Reconstruction of the Venetian Lagoon in a 3D Web Semantic Infrastructure’.
• G. Spinaci, G. Colavizza, and S. Peroni, ‘List of Digital Humanities journals’. Sep. 12, 2019. doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.3406564 [https://zenodo.org/records/3406564] .
• G. Spinaci, G. Colavizza, and S. Peroni, ‘Preliminary results on mapping digital humanities research’, presented at the L’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, 2020, pp. 246–252.
• G. Spinaci, G. Colavizza, and S. Peroni, ‘A map of Digital Humanities research across bibliographic data sources’, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 1254–1268, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1093/llc/fqac016 [https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/37/4/1254/6576088] .
• G. Spinaci, R. Grillo, L. Klic, and P. Bonora, ‘Semantic Data Lakes for Knowledge Extraction in the Humanities: A Case Study on Bernard Berenson’s Network of Acquaintances’, presented at the Digital Humanities 2022, University of Tokyo, 2022, pp. 575–576.
• G. Spinaci, S. Peroni, A. Di Iorio, F. Poggi, and F. Vitali, ‘The RASH JavaScript Editor (RAJE): A Wordprocessor for Writing Web-first Scholarly Articles’, in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Valletta Malta: ACM, Aug. 2017, pp. 85–94. doi: 10.1145/3103010.3103018 [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3103010.3103018] .

• The letters of Belle Da Costa Greene
  Apr 2024—Oct 2024
  Upgrade of an existing ETL system to publish 605 digitised letters and Knowledge organisation of data and metadata according to Cidoc-crm.
  
• Mary Berenson Diaries
  Jan 2023—Present
  Creation of an ETL system to process 25 transcribed and digitized diaries dated between 1891 and 1933. Website [https://collection.itatti.harvard.edu/resource/mbdiaries:diaries] .
• VeNiss - Venice's Nissology: Reframing the Lagoon City as an Archipelago
  ERC Starting Grant (ERC-2021-StG, GA n. 101040474 [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101040474/it] )
  Jan 2023—Present
  Development of the Digital Infrastructure to handle the authoring metadata of sources and events. Definition of an ontological conceptual model to organize the knowledge and integrate 2D and 3D digital artifacts with the platform.
• Metapolis: Spatializing Histories through Archival Sources
  NEH award (HAA-287761-22 [https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/AwardDetail.aspx?gn=HAA-287761-22] )
  Jan 2023—Present
  Development of the map-based digital infrastructure to support scholarship in the humanities
• Is ORCID a Social Network?
  2019
  A Network Analysis of ORCID to exploit its hidden Social Network features . Big data network analysis. Report [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tPVqHA5Uaa9JMhG0FvdxwQp4C6Cct9BMPYmBD_hWdoQ/edit#slide=id.p] .
• Roman Epigrahy
  2017
  Geospatial mapping of the Roman inscriptions in Rimini interconnected with events and people . Developed backend and database with Node.js and MongoDB.
  https://github.com/Scholarly-editing-project/Roman-Epigraphy
• RAJE: RASH Javascript Editor
  2017
  A Network Analysis of ORCID to exploit its hidden Social Network features . Big data network analysis.
  https://github.com/rash-framework/raje-app

• 20th conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science @ Bressanone, Brixen, Italy
  23rd Feb 2024
  Link [https://ircdl2024.dei.unipd.it/]
• 2023 IIIF Annual Conference @ Napoli, Italy
  7th June 2023
  link [https://iiif.io/event/2023/naples/schedule/#144]
• Digital Humanities Conference 2022 @ Tokyo, Japan
  27th Jul 2022 (online)
  link [https://dh2022.adho.org/program/presentations]
• IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD @ Milano, Italy
  17th Jan 2020
  link [https://aiucd2020.unicatt.it/aiucd-programma]
• 17th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering @ Valletta, Malta
  4th Sep 2017
  link [http://www.sigweb.org/toc/doceng17.html]

• Lesson 7: “Web e semantic design” and “Data visualization”
  Digital Humanities @ Università di Brescia
  29th April 2024
  link [https://www.unibs.it/it/corsi-trasversali/digital-humanities]
• “ResearchSpace. Features and Concepts”
  Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge @ Università di Bologna
  9th-10th April 2024
  link [https://www.unibo.it/it/studiare/dottorati-master-specializzazioni-e-altra-formazione/insegnamenti/insegnamento/2023/499859]
• Querying Art History Data on the Web (6): Working with digital images and IIIF
  @ Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Philosophische Fakultät
  6th March 2023
  link [https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00055805]
• REVIEW ACTIVITIES AND COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
• Reviewer, Digital Humanities conference
  2021—Present
• Committee member , DocEng 2018
  2018, Halifax, Canada
  link [https://editablepdf.org/workshop/]
• ICOM member
  2020—Present

• Premio Gigliozzi
  AIUCD 2020
  Link [https://x.com/ERC_LiLa/status/1218194288556769281]
• Borsa di studio “Paolucci” (2nd place)
  BCC Gradara, 2018
  Link [https://it.scribd.com/document/394446340/Borse-di-studio-Paolucci-della-BCC-ecco-tutti-i-premiati-Il-Resto-del-Carlino-del-28-novembre-2018]
• Borsa di studio “Gemos premia il merito” prima edizione
  Gemos, 2018
  Link [https://www.gemos.it/gemos-premia-merito-sostenendo-listruzione-dei-ragazzi/]
• Concorso GoToWeb (3rd place)
  Latina, 2013
  Link [https://www.radioluna.it/news/2013/05/concorso-go-to-web-premiati-i-vincitori/]

• Student tutor, Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge
  2018, Università di Bologna
  Tutoring activities: private teaching, mentoring, and seminars

• Martial Art practitioner Kendo (県道)
  1st Dan