BLADE project selected among the five projects funded by Ca' Foscari's SPIN 2025 call – May 2026
The project BLADE – Born-digital Literary Archives DNA Exploration, with PI Emmanuela Carbé, is among the five projects selected under the SPIN 2025 – Supporting Principal INvestigators call of Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The project addresses the challenges of preserving, analysing, and interpreting born-digital literary archives, proposing a methodological framework that integrates digital philology, digital forensics, and archival science.
Giagnolini and Giglio at the conference "Who is Responsible for the Archives?" – 26 June 2026
At the international conference Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age (Aston University, Birmingham, 26 June 2026, hybrid format), Lucia Giagnolini and Mariangela Giglio (Alma Mater Studiorum UniversitĂ di Bologna) will present the paper Unintended Records: Acquisition, Privacy, and Scholarly Access in Born-Digital Literary Archives.
Lecture by Mariangela Giglio at the University of Würzburg – 17 June 2026
On 17 June 2026, Mariangela Giglio will give the lecture Digital Remains: An Introduction to Forensic Philology at the University of WĂĽrzburg.
"Archiving the Web: Theories, Tools and Practices" – Aspettando AIUCD series, 20 May 2026
As part of the Aspettando AIUCD 2026 series, organised by the ALDiNa group of AIUCD, the webinar Archiving the Web: Theories, Tools and Practices will take place on 20 May 2026 (5:30–7:30 pm). Speakers are Alessia Del Bianco and Adele Gorini (DBC, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna), with an introduction by Lucia Giagnolini (DH.arc and Historical Archive, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). The event addresses the main challenges of preserving online content, introduces key concepts such as Reborn Digital, Complex Object and Significant Properties, and offers a comparison between SolrWayback and the Wayback Machine.
15th AIUCD Annual Conference – 3–5 June 2026
The 15th annual conference of the Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) will be held in Cagliari in June 2026, organised by DH UNICA – Centre for Digital Humanities of the University of Cagliari. The theme of the conference will be "Digital Humanities and Public Engagement: Practices and Perspectives".
EUTOPIA DigIn Workshop on Forensic Philology and Born-Digital Archives – Barcelona, 21 May 2026
As part of the Connected Community for Digital Initiatives of EUTOPIA (coordinator prof. Simone Ventura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), two events dedicated to born-digital literary archives will take place in Barcelona:
- Guest Lecture (8:30–10:30): Reading contemporary Italian fiction through digital humanities methods
- Workshop (15:30–17:30): Forensic philology, genetic criticism, and born-digital literary archives
Participants: Anna Alberni, Jordi Marrugat (Universitat de Barcelona), Claudia Pey (doctoral researcher, UB), Jaume Subirana, Maria Dasca, Cinta Paloma Vila (UPF)
Workshop "Digital Forensics in the Humanities" – 8 May 2026
The workshop Digital Forensics in the Humanities, organised by the Bit Philology project group at the University of Bern, brought together scholars to discuss applications of digital forensics in the humanities. Among the contributions, Emmanuela Carbé and Mariangela Giglio presented Between Philology and Digital Forensics: The Case of Franco Fortini, focusing on the use of forensic methodologies in the study of digital and hybrid literary archives.
Lecture by Mariangela Giglio on born-digital literary archives - 22 April 2026 - University of Texas
On 22 April 2026, Mariangela Giglio gave a lecture entitled Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez’ Digital Archive - A Forensic Approach to Digital Authorship. The lecture explored the application of digital forensics methodologies to born-digital literary archives, with particular attention to the case of Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez’s digital archive preserved at the Harry Ransom Center.
Lucia Giagnolini’s doctoral dissertation defence - 26 March 2026 - University of Bologna
On 26 March 2026, Lucia Giagnolini defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Rappresentare il digitale d’autore: dal file system al knowledge graph. The research proposes a model for representing born-digital literary archives, integrating file system analysis, archival description, and knowledge graph technologies.
Publication of Volume 43 of Annali d’italianistica – 2025
Volume 43 of Annali d’italianistica, Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, edited by Adele Bardazzi, Brandon Essary, Paola Italia, Massimo Riva and Michelangelo Zaccarello, has been published.
Section 4, Born-Digital Literature and Hybrid Archives, introduced by Michelangelo Zaccarello, brings together contributions devoted to born-digital and hybrid literary archives. These include Riflessi digitali: indagine sugli archivi d’autore contemporanei by Lucia Giagnolini, Filologia forense e digitale d’autore, con un esempio sul caso Fortini by Emmanuela Carbé and Mariangela Giglio, and Gli esordi della videoscrittura letteraria in Italia: una prima analisi della produzione di Luciano De Crescenzo by Carmen Ragusa.
For a Digital Philology of Contemporary Literary Archives - February 25, 2025
Emmanuela Carbé (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - VeDPH), Digital Culture Seminar, Polo Fibonacci, Pisa and on Microsoft Teams, February 25, 2025, 2:15 PM. The seminar offers a reflection on the practices of digital philology applied to contemporary literary archives, addressing critical issues, representational models, and research perspectives, also with reference to the ALDiNa project.
Summer School - Web, Social Media, and Instant Messaging Archiving and Preservation - 22–26 September 2025
The Summer School aims to offer advanced training on emerging topics related to the archiving and preservation of websites, social media, blogs, instant messaging (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.), and, more broadly, all new forms of digital documentary material whose preservation is essential for multiple academic fields and for the future reconstruction of our present civilization.
XIV convegno annuale AIUCD – June 11–13, 2025
The 14th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture (AIUCD) will be held in Verona in June 2025, organized by the Digital Arena for Inclusive Humanities (DAIH) at the University of Verona. The conference theme will be “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory – April 2–4, 2025
The international conference Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on born-digital cultural heritage, exploring challenges and opportunities related to the preservation, archiving, and research of digital materials.
Don't save! Progetti digitali per il Centro di ricerca Franco Fortini – December 17, 2024
The Franco Fortini Interdepartmental Research Center is hosting a seminar focused on ongoing Digital Humanities projects, particularly on the preservation and study of Fortini's born-digital archive (project F-LAB SOS-DH 2022/23), and the development of a platform for his bibliography (project F-CUR "BiGraFo" 2022/23).
Gestione e conservazione degli archivi letterari digitali nativi – November 21, 2024
Lucia Giagnolini (University of Bologna) will lead a seminar on managing and preserving born-digital literary archives. The event is part of the master's course in Italian Philology (Prof. Michelangelo Zaccarello).
Prospettive sul born-digital fra archivi pubblici e privati – November 20, 2024
Lucia Giagnolini (University of Bologna) will present a seminar on archival management of born-digital documents. The session is part of the monographic course in Digital Humanities of the master's degree in Modern Literature (Prof. Emmanuela Carbé).
IL FUTURO DELLA MEMORIA. DOVE COME COSA SALVARE – November 5, 2024
A study day reflecting on the impact of digital technology on practices of archiving and transmitting literary texts and editorial knowledge. Organized by the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation in collaboration with the University of Bologna, the Manuscript Center of the University of Pavia, the Corriere della Sera Foundation, the Municipality of Milan, and BookCity Milano.
CFP Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory – April 2025
Conference organized by The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in collaboration with Aarhus University, the British Library, and the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum.
Tre giorni di convegno a Pavia – December 2023
Article in Il Giornale, December 12, 2023.
Filologia digitale e autori: il convegno in Aula Magna – December 2023
Article in La Provincia Pavese, December 12, 2023.
Bit manent? Sul convegno Carte immateriali. Filologia d’autore e testi nativi digitali – December 2023
Article by Marco Brando in Treccani Magazine, December 27, 2023.
Le Carte Immateriali. Filologia D'autore E Testi Nativi Digitali – December 2023
Conference held in Pavia, December 11–13, 2023.
Il nuovo filologo deve essere anche un po’ ispettore – December 2023
Article by Alessandro Gnocchi in Il Giornale, December 11, 2023.
Cultura: a Pavia il convegno sugli archivi nativi digitali “Le carte immateriali” – December 2023
Article in RadioGold about the conference on born-digital archives held in Pavia.
La lingua batte, Speciale in diretta da Più libri più liberi – December 2023
Broadcast on Rai Radio 3 during the special "La lingua batte" aired on December 10, 2023. Guests hosted by Paolo Di Paolo included:
- Giuseppe Antonelli, editor of the volume "La vita delle parole. Il lessico dell'italiano tra storia e societĂ " (Il Mulino, 2023)
- Graziano Graziani, author of "Alice ner Paese dell'Anvedi" (Tic edizioni), a Romanesco translation of "Alice in Wonderland"
- Tiziana Montalbano, co-founder and communications manager at Parole O_Stili
- Emanuela Piemontese, author of the essay "Il diritto costituzionale di farsi capire" (Carocci, 2023)
- Francesca Reggiani, comedian, presenting her new book "Spettacolare. Finché c'è attualità c'è satira" (La Lepre, 2023)
- Massimo Roscia, author of "Errorario" (Rai Libri, 2023)
- Giovanni Solimine, with the essay "Cervelli anfibi, orecchie e digitale" (Aras Edizioni)
Filologia digitale, Lo studio delle carte immateriali – December 2023
Interview with Giuseppe Antonelli on Alphaville, RSI Radio Svizzera Italiana, about the conference "Le carte immateriali. Filologia d’autore e testi nativi digitali" held on December 12, 2023.
Digitale d’autore. Per non finire – November 2023
Seminar with Isotta Piazza and Marco Sartor for the course in Contemporary Italian Literature (Isotta Piazza), Bachelor's Degree in Humanities, University of Parma, November 22, 2023.
Non solo filologia, c’è vita quotidiana negli “scartafacci” raccolti da Maria Corti – November 2023
Article by Enrico Negrotti in Esametri & Cellule, November 18, 2023.
Thorsten Ries among the keynote speakers at AIUCD 2023 – 7 June 2023
As part of the AIUCD 2023 conference, Thorsten Ries (University of Texas, Austin) was among the keynote speakers with the lecture Born-digital Literary Archives – the Present and the Future of an Emerging Field, devoted to born-digital literary archives and to the future development of this emerging field of research.
Il libro digitale e le nuove prospettive editoriali – May 2023
With Giuseppe Antonelli, Gino Roncaglia, Francesco Pecoraro, Emmanuela Carbé, Isotta Piazza. Moderated by Paola Italia. Part of the “Edizioni d’autore” seminar series curated by Stefania Baragetti and Virna Brigatti, University of Milan, May 3, 2023.
Old Issues and New Perspectives for Born-Digital Literary Archives – April 2023
Seminar hosted by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 19, 2023.
The Born-Digital Challenge in Private Archives: Research Perspectives and Archival Practices – October 2023
Seminar held in Helsinki (October 4–5, 2023) organized by The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) and The Finnish Literature Society (SKS). Speakers included Kristina Linnovaara (SLS), Emmanuela Carbé (University of Siena), Gábor Palkó (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest), Callum McKean (British Library).
Verso una "volontà d'archivio" digitale – June 2023
Lucia Giagnolini in La memoria digitale: forme del testo e organizzazione della conoscenza. Proceedings of the 12th AIUCD Annual Conference, Siena, University of Siena, 2023, pp. 92–98.
Contemporary Archives and New Issues – June 2022
Seminar by Emmanuela Carbé for the project Italianische Philologie Digital, supported by “Frauen aufs Podium” and the Italian Cultural Institute of Hamburg, University of Kiel, June 15, 2022.
Filologia genetica ed ecosistema digitale – April 2022
Paola Italia and Emmanuela Carbé, part of the permanent seminar cycle “A bridge between two worlds: historically inclined disciplines and DH”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 21, 2022.
Dalla carta al computer: archivi e filologia d’autore nel nativo digitale – October 2021
Online seminar by Emmanuela Carbé for the Chair of Italian Literature, University of Bern, Prof. Giovanna Cordibella.
Una presentazione degli archivi nati digitalmente conservati presso il Centro Manoscritti di Pavia – September 2022
One of two episodes of “Sciarada” (RAI 5), curated by Giuseppe Antonelli, showcased the born-digital archives preserved at the Centro Manoscritti in Pavia. The episode aired on September 19, 2022, and included a commentary by Chiara Andreatta.
L’edizione delle carte degli scrittori: l’archivio letterario incontra il (nativo) digitale – September 2021
Tomasi, Francesca in Biblioteche oggi Trends 7, no. 1 (September 14, 2021).
ALDiNa: anche gli archivisti digitali hanno cominciato da piccoli… – February 2021
Article by Giorgio Guzzetta in Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale: il blog dell'AIUCD, February 2, 2021.
ALDiNa: Archivi Letterari Digitali Nativi – January 2021
Workshop curated by Tiziana Mancinelli, Emmanuela Carbé, and Federico Boschetti. AIUCD 2021 – DH for Society: E-equality, Participation, Rights, and Values in the Digital Age.
L'edizione delle carte degli scrittori: l'archivio letterario incontra il (nativo) digitale – 2021
Article by Francesca Tomasi in Biblioteche oggi, 2021.
L’organizzazione e la descrizione di un fondo nativo digitale: PAD e l’archivio di Franco Buffoni – 2020
Contribution by P.G. Weston, P. Baldini, and L. Pusterla in C. Marras, M. Passarotti, G. Franzini, and E. Litta (eds.), Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. La svolta inevitabile, Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale, 2020, pp. 273–277.
Digitale d’autore. Un Archivio Possibile – January 2018
By Emmanuela Carbé in Archivi Editoriali. Tra Storia Del Testo e Storia Del Libro, January 1, 2018.
Archivi digitali d’autore: ipotesi di lavoro – 2018
Round table moderated by Stefano Allegrezza with Pierluigi Feliciati, Ernesto Belisario, Salvatore Flavio Vassallo, Emmanuela Carbé, Primo Baldini, and Paul Gabriele Weston, 2018.
Walking in My Shoes: A Case Study from a Born-Digital Archive – 2017
By Emmanuela Carbé in Digital Humanities 2016. Extended Papers of the International Symposium on Digital Humanities, 2017, pp. 137–146.
Gli archivi di persona nell’era digitale: il caso dell’archivio di Massimo Vannucci – 2016
Allegrezza, Stefano, and Luca Gorgolini (eds.), in Percorsi, 2016.