1. Presentation of three new projects
Three new projects will contribute to the incrementation of Mirabile in different ways, both in terms of data collection (in the various MIRABILE databases) and of more advanced search functionalities. Here you can find short presentations of the projects focusing on their main aims.
A- What is OPA. Anonymous and lost works in the Latin Tradition from late Antiquity to 15th century
OPA is a research project carried out by University of Bologna (Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica), University of Udine (Dipartimento di Studi umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale) and University of Salerno (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici), with the collaboration of the SISMEL (International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture). It is funded under the Special Integrative Fund for Research (FISR) by the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). The main aim of the project OPA is to build a new research infrastructure for the investigation of anonymous and lost works in the Latin tradition from Late Antiquity to 16th century. By extracting information especially from the SISMEL integrated Archive for the Middle Ages, OPA will provide updates on a great amount of anonymous or pseudoepigraphical works. The achievements will progressively enrich corresponding records already available on Mirabile, also by adding new texts and bibliography.
To read more about OPA project, click here ITA or ENG
B- What is Interactive map of the religious institutions in Tuscany (13th-14th centuries; by 1321)
Interactive map is a project promoted by SISMEL. International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture (scientific coordinator: Gabriella Pomaro) and it is funded by the Dante National Committee (Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni dantesche). The aim of this project is to build a map of the Tuscan religious institutions during the age of Dante. This map will allow to clarify the role of each institution and to identify the manuscripts which Dante could probably have read. So, basically, the map aims to identify and map the ecclesiastical institutions (churches, collegiate churches, parish churches, monasteries, presbiteries) which owned those manuscripts: the understanding of Dante could be made possible through the reconstruction of the context both territorial and cultural which fed him. The istitutions will be geo-referenced, typified by religious orders and searchable by criteria which are to be defined. Public presentations and a conference (followed by the publication of the proceedings) are planned.
C- What is Medieval manuscripts from Tuscany (13th-14th centuries): designing and developing a software for dating and defining their provenance.
This project is carried out thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Florence and it is funded by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Florence. It aims to develope a software able to recognize simple graphic forms, to trace their location and to calculate their incidence statistics that will contribute to dating and defining the provenance of the Tuscan manuscripts from 13th to 14th century. The first results have been presented during the annual meeting organized by IRCDL. Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (Padova, 19th-20th February 2021): Simone Marinai, Gabriella Pomaro, Claudia Raffaelli and Francesco Scandiffio, Location of Simple Graphemes in Mediaeval Manuscripts based on Mask R-CNN. This presentation is available online at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2816/
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