RESEARCH / Papers
On this page you can find a list of published papers and other written research material of mine; I always try to keep it updated but please get in touch if you can't find what you are looking for.
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Books
. SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELEARNING: A CASE STUDY IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL DOMAIN: REPRESENTING WITTGENSTEIN'S TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Aug 2010. [amazon]
Journal articles
. ONTOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ANNOTATION AND NAVIGATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESOURCES. Synthese, Volume 182, Number 2, Springer, Sep 2011. [preprint]
. REVIEW OF INTERONTOLOGY CONFERENCE 2010. Humana Mente, Journal of Philosophical Studies, 13, May 2010. [preprint]
. AQUALOG: AN ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SEMANTIC INTRANETS. Journal of Web Semantics, Sep 2007, Vol. 5, 2, (72-105), Elsevier. [preprint]
Book chapters
. MOVING EARLY MODERN THEATRE ONLINE: THE RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA INTRODUCES THE EARLY MODERN LONDON THEATRES WEBSITE. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ed. Tassie Gniady, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies Series (Iter Inc./ACMRS), (forthcoming).
. STRUCTURING THAT WHICH CANNOT BE STRUCTURED: A ROLE FOR FORMAL MODELS IN REPRESENTING ASPECTS OF MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND. The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286, edited by Matthew Hammond, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, Studies in Celtic History Series, (forthcoming).
. SUPPORTING PHILOSOPHERS' WORK THROUGH THE SEMANTIC WEB: ONTOLOGICAL ISSUES. Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, Oct 2009, D. Dicheva, R. Mizoguchi, J. Greer (Eds.), vol. 4 The Future of Learning, IOS Press. [preprint]
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Conference/Proceedings
. PROSOPOGRAPHY AND COMPUTER ONTOLOGIES: TOWARDS A FORMAL REPRESENTATION OF THE ‘FACTOID’ MODEL BY MEANS OF CIDOC-CRM. Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities, Lawrence, Kansas, Sep 2011. [abstract] [slides]
. BROWSING HIGHLY INTERCONNECTED HUMANITIES DATABASES THROUGH MULTI-RESULT FACETED BROWSERS. Digital Humanities 2011 , Stanford, USA, Jun 2011. [preprint]
. AN ONTOLOGICAL VIEW OF CANONICAL CITATIONS. Digital Humanities 2011 , Stanford, USA, Jun 2011. [preprint]
. HOW DO PHILOSOPHERS THINK THEIR OWN DISCIPLINE? REPORTS FROM A KNOWLEDGE ELICITATION EXPERIMENT. European Philosophy and Computing conference, ECAP10, Munich, Germany, Oct 2010. [abstract] [slides]
. DATA INTEGRATION PERSPECTIVES FROM THE LONDON THEATRES BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT. Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH-SEMI 2010), Montreal, Canada, Jun 2010.
. LAYING THE CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR DATA INTEGRATION IN THE HUMANITIES. Proc. of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH09), Maryland, USA, Jun 2009, pp. 211-215. [preprint] [slides]
. MEANING AND STRUCTURE IN THE LONDON THEATRES BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Mar 2009.
. FORMALIZING ʻPHILOSOPHICALʼ NARRATIVES: THE TENSION BETWEEN FORM AND CONTENT. Paper presented at the European Computing and Philosophy Conference (ECAP08), Montpellier, France, Jun 2008. [preprint]
. CAPTURING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PHILOSOPHY. Proc. of the fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP07), Whistler, BC, Canada, Oct 2007, pp. 47-54. [preprint]
. PHILOSURFICAL: BROWSE WITTGENSTEINʼS TRACTATUS WITH THE SEMANTIC WEB. Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information - Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, Aug 2007, pp. 319-335. [preprint]
. SUPPORTING PHILOSOPHERS’ WORK THROUGH THE SEMANTIC WEB: ONTOLOGICAL ISSUES. Fifth International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning (SWEL-07), held in conjunction with AIED-07, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, Jul 2007. [preprint]
. AN ONTOLOGY FOR THE DESCRIPTION AND NAVIGATION THROUGH PHILOSOPHICAL RESOURCES. Paper presented at the European Conference on Philosophy and Computing (ECAP-06), Trondheim, Norway, Jun 2006. [preprint]
. A TASK BASED APPROACH TO SUPPORT SITUATING LEARNING FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB. International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL-06), held in conjunction with Adaptive Hypermedia 2006, Dublin, Ireland, Jun 2006. [preprint]
. PAVING THE WAY TOWARDS THE E-HUMANITIES: A SEMANTIC WEB APPROACH TO SUPPORT THE LEARNING OF PHILOSOPHY . Poster paper presented at the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-06), Budva, Montenegro, Jun 2006. [preprint]
. SEMANTIC LEARNING NARRATIVES. International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SWEL-05), held in conjunction with KCAP-05, Banff, Canada, Oct 2005. [preprint]
. AQUALOG A ONTOLOGY-PORTABLE QUESTION ANSWERING INTERFACE FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB. Proc. of the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 2005, pp. 546-562. [preprint]
White papers, Reports, Invited Talks etc.
. CAPTURING THE MEANING OF ROMAN SCULTPURE. Digital Humanities Symposium - Virtualisation and Heritage, York, Feb 2012. [abstract]
. UNTITLED 12. Computer Music Journal, Volume 35, Issue 4 - Ensembles of Digitally Controlled Acoustic Instruments, Dec 2011, (Audio/Video livecoding piece included with the DVD contents) .
. ALIGNING HUCIT WITH CIDOC-CRM AND FRBROO. CIDOC-CRM SIG meeting, Amsterdam, Nov 2011.
. SEMANTIC WEB APPROACHES IN DIGITAL HISTORY: AN INTRODUCTION. Lecture slides from the Course on digital history, part of the master in Digital Humanities at King's College, London., Oct 2011. [slides]
. INTRODUCTION TO THE IMPROMPTU LIVECODING ENVIRONMENT. Cultures et Arts Libres Workshop, 2011 Libre Software Meeting, Strasbourg, France, Jul 2011. [slides]
. USING FORMAL MODELS IN THE HUMANITIES: CHALLENGES AND MISDIRECTIONS. Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Trento, Italy, Mar 2011. [slides]
. RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN EMLOT: A DIGITAL HUMANITIES PERSPECTIVE. Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT) Academic Colloquium, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK, Feb 2011. [slides]
. GETTING THE DATABASE TO TALK HISTORY: NEW DESIGNS IN THE PARADOX OF MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND. International Medieval Congress (IMC 2010), Leeds, UK, Jul 2010.
. ONTOLOGICAL REQUIREMENT FOR SUPPORTING SMART NAVIGATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESOURCES. Invited seminar at Mizoguchi Lab, Osaka University, Japan, Mar 2010. [slides]
. ONTOLOGICAL REQUIREMENT FOR SUPPORTING SMART NAVIGATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESOURCES. PhD Thesis, Milton Keynes, UK, The Open University, Jul 2009. [chapter 1]
. LONDON THEATRES BIBLIOGRAPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB DATABASE. Medieval English Theatre , Royal Holloway University, London, UK, Mar 2009.
. APPROACH AND ONTOLOGY IN PHILOSURFICAL. Invited talk at COST workshop, Ancona University, May 2008. [slides]
. SEMANTIC LEARNING NARRATIVES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE USAGE OF SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT LEARNING. KMI Techreport ID: kmi-05-07, Jul 2005. [tech-report]
. USING THE SEMANTIC WEB TO NAVIGATE CONCEPTUAL SPACES: AN APPLICATION FOR THE PHILOSOPHICAL DOMAIN. Paper presented during the AKT Doctoral Symposium, Milton Keynes, UK, Jun 2005. [preprint]
. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE POSTFORDISTIC SOCIETY. Undergraduate degree thesis in italian (kindly published as a white-paper by ItConsult SRL), Universita Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy, Sep 2003. [thesis in italian] [english abstract]