The Centre for Digital Humanities Advanced Research (DH.arc) is part of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies (FICLIT) at the University of Bologna. The centre brings together students, researchers, IT staff and faculty from FICLIT, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), and affiliated institutions.
The International Research Centre on Personal Digital Archives is an initiative of the University of Bologna that focuses on the issue of long-term archiving and preservation of personal digital archives, as well as personal digital memories in general. These memories include documents, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other digital content produced by individuals or research activities. The Centre reviews the scientific literature in this field, including international research projects, and promotes knowledge and best practices in digital archiving. Additionally, the Centre has collaborated with the Summer School in Web and Social Media Archiving and Preservation, offering training and knowledge exchange opportunities for those interested in this area.
The Franco Fortini Research Centre was established in 1995 following the donation to the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Siena of Franco Fortini’s private library and archive, including letters, manuscripts, drawings, and a set of files from Fortini’s last computer. The archive preserves floppy disks with copies of the writer’s final digital works. Other digital-born archives are also held at the Humanities Library, which has begun initiatives for their survey, preservation, and study.
The Manuscript Centre of the University of Pavia was founded in 1969 thanks to the donation of Montale’s notebooks to Maria Corti. In 2009, the University of Pavia launched the pilot project Pavia Archivi Digitali, which has since become part of the Manuscript Centre. It represents Italy’s first systematic initiative for the acquisition, management, and preservation of born-digital literary collections. Today, the Centre preserves various born-digital author archives, including texts, multimedia files, and other digital documents. A notable example is the hybrid archive of Franco Buffoni, composed of both paper and born-digital materials.
CLARIN-IT is the Italian node of CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure), a research infrastructure that integrates language resources and advanced tools for the exploration, access, and analysis of digital content at the European level. This goal is achieved through a network of national centres across Europe that provide repositories of digital linguistic data, advanced tools, and cutting-edge physical and digital archives. Thanks to a unified access service, these resources are available to the research community to conduct high-level investigations, fostering innovation and competitiveness.
The Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) is part of the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. This centre supports the development, accessibility, and dissemination of research and teaching in the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Public Humanities (PH), facilitating collaboration and coordination among existing initiatives and inspiring new projects.