Fabio Ciotti

Fabio Ciotti (Senior Assistant Professor) teaches Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism and Theory of Literature at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. His scientific and research work covers various aspects and themes of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, both from the theoretical and the practical point of view:  the applications of computational methods to the analysis of narrative texts; digital text encoding and editing; applications of XML and TEI technologies to literary texts and corpora; modeling and creation of digital libraries; application of Semantic Web/Linked data principles and technologies to humanities digital libraries and textual corpora. On these subjects he has written several monographs and scientific articles in peer reviewed international journals.

Fabio Ciotti has been involved in several digital humanities projects at national and international level, in cooperation with various institutions. Between the most remarkable: Biblioteca Italiana (Italian literary tradition, http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it); DigilibLT (Late Latin tradition, http://www.digiliblt.uniupo.it/); Geolat project - aimed to build an ontology to annotate geographical knowledge in Ancient Classical texts; Memorata Poesis (Italian Ministry of University funded project -PRIN 2010/11) for the thematic annotation of Latin and early Italian texts. He has been Scientist-in-charge on behalf of Sapienza University in the DIXIT Marie Curie EU funded project.

He has been organizer or member of the program committees of various national and international conferences (TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 and 2014; AIUCD conferences, IRCDL; DH) and Chair of the Program Committee of the DH2019 Conference (Utrecht, NL, 9-12 Jul 2019). He is Editor in Chief of the journal Umanistica Digitale.

He is Chair of the EADH (European Association of Digital Humanities) Executive Board, founder member and Past President of AIUCD  (Associazione per L’ifromatica Umanistica e la Culura DIgitale) and VCC head and member of the Joint Research Committee of the European ERIC DARIAH-EU.