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Papers by Nina Sietis
Digitalia. Rivista del digitale nei beni culturali, 2023
L’articolo offre una panoramica sul progetto MeMo – Memory of Montecassino (vincitore del bando P... more L’articolo offre una panoramica sul progetto MeMo – Memory of Montecassino (vincitore del bando PRIN 2020 – CUP H33C22000060001), mirato alla conoscenza e alla valorizzazione del patrimonio manoscritto e a stampa antico conservato presso l’Abbazia di Montecassino. Dopo un’introduzione dedicata alla descrizione della ricca eredità di codici, documenti medievali e antichi libri a stampa prodotti e/o conservati presso il cenobio benedettino, si presentano gli obiettivi del progetto, frutto della pluriennale esperienza maturata dal team dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale nell’ambito della ricerca sui codici cassinesi e della didattica connessa con il manoscritto e il libro antico. Punto di partenza di MeMo sono la digitalizzazione e la catalogazione digitale del patrimonio cassinese, di cui si fornisce il dettagliato workflow. Si descrivono altresì gli strumenti e le tecnologie impiegati, finalizzati alla conservazione a lungo termine e alla diffusione capillare di immagini e descrizioni (come FITS, DOIs). In particolare, ci si sofferma sulla tecnologia IIIF, adoperata per la gestione delle immagini digitali in MeMo grazie alla collaborazione e alle innovative sperimentazioni di DBSeret, partner tecnologico dotato di ampia e qualificata esperienza nel settore del Manuscript image processing.
Scripta, 2022
This paper stems from the analysis of a marginal annotation on the manuscript Roma, Biblioteca An... more This paper stems from the analysis of a marginal annotation on the manuscript Roma, Biblioteca Angelica, gr. 120; it shows that the hand that penned it is the same that intervened in the margins of six other manuscripts (cf. Ai margini di una biblioteca: sulle tracce di un anonimo lettore bizantino, «Scripta» 12 [2019], pp. 183-201) and suggests a new identification.
Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–... more Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 2020
Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing s... more Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Digital Libraries: The Era of Big Data and Data Science, 2020
Scrineum, 2021
http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/scrineum/article/view/8663 The epistolary collection of T... more http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/scrineum/article/view/8663
The epistolary collection of Theodore the Studite (759-826), although incomplete, counts more than 500 letters, which prove to be a fundamental resource for reconstructing the life and activity of the famous iconodule. Surprisingly enough, the letters have never been considered for investigating the graphic activity of Theodore and the monks of the Constantinopolitan coenobium of Studios. The present contribution tries to remedy this lack, proposing some reflections on the compositional practices typical of the Studite abbot and his addressees, on the ways in which they exchanged letters and their literary works, on the material aspects of writing and on the books they read.
Scripta, 2019
This paper focuses on an anonymous reader responsible for several annotations in the margins of a... more This paper focuses on an anonymous reader responsible for several annotations in the margins of a group of books. The first part describes the palaeographical characteristics of this scribe’s hand; the second is concerned with the content of the marginal annotations written by him. Both these approaches assign the reader to the end of the 11th/beginning of the 12th century. Special attention is paid to the abbreviation system used by this hand.
Segno & Testo, 2019
This paper focuses on a new witness of the "In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae", a pamphl... more This paper focuses on a new witness of the "In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae", a pamphlet written by Nikephoros Gregoras. The work, now preserved in the manuscript Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana, gr. Z. 142, was copied by some collaborators of the author and was reviewed by him. Thanks to this discovery, a new analysis of the manuscript tradition of the pamphlet was carried out, a tradition that consists of four other manuscripts, A (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vati- cana, Vat. gr. 1086), B (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1085), J (Jerusalem, Patriarchichē Bibliothēkē, Monē Abraham, 51) and K (Wien, Österreichischen National-Bibliothek, Hist. gr. 104). The material investigation and the collation of the text led to the reconstruction of two ‘editions’, both dating back to the author.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2019
Leontios Eustratios, called Philoponos, was a prolific scribe and tireless traveler, though negle... more Leontios Eustratios, called Philoponos, was a prolific scribe and tireless traveler, though neglected by modern research. The first part of this article is devoted to the reconstruction of Leontios’ life and activity, while the second describes a new witness of the theological works by the patriarch Nicephorus and offers new data for research on philology and textual transmission.
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](News by Nina Sietis
L'idea di questo convegno nasce dal desiderio di un confronto su questioni aperte negli studi pal... more L'idea di questo convegno nasce dal desiderio di un confronto su questioni aperte negli studi paleografici greci e latini, quali il rapporto tra storia della scrittura e ricono-scimento di mani; la marginalizzazione di interi periodi della storia della scrittura medievale nella produzione paleografica; la questione della descrizione e della definizione delle scritture; la verifica dei metodi dell' indagine paleografica resa urgente dalle innovazioni della tecnologia e del digitale. Alcuni fra i temi indicati saranno al centro delle relazioni delle due giornate nell'auspicio che il dibattito possa stimolare altre e future riflessioni.
Papers (a Selection) by Nina Sietis
CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2022
The paper is published in: Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Trac... more The paper is published in:
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) Barcelona, Spain, May 17-20, 2022.
Edited by: Joao Araujo, Jose Luis de la Vara, Isabel Sofia Brito, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Leticia Duboc, Giovanni Giachetti, Beatriz Marín, Estefania Serral, Alessandra Bagnato, Lidia Lopez
Submitted by: Jose Luis de la Vara
Published on CEUR-WS: 29-May-2022
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The paper presents the project NOTAE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Advanced Grant 2017, GA n. 786572, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
All the authors are currently team members or affiliated researchers of the project.
See also: http://www.notae-project.eu.
Proceedings of the 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2021) Padua, Italy, February 18-19, 2021, CEUR-WS: 24-Feb-2021, Edited by: Dennis Dosso, Stefano Ferilli, Paolo Manghi, Antonella Poggi, Giuseppe Serra, Gianmaria Silvello., 2021
Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing s... more Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial
implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Communications in Computer and Information Science. Book Series, 2020
Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - B... more Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - Bari, Italy. Program and proceedings available here <https://kdde.di.uniba.it/ircdl20/index.php/program/>.
Free downloadable until 22th february 2020 here:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4>
DOI: <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_12>
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text. The Project NOTAE represents the first attempt to investigate these graphic entities as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe in any written sources containing texts generated for pragmatic purposes (con-tracts, petitions, official and private letters, lists etc.). Identifying and classifying graphic symbols on such documents is a task that requires experience and knowledge of the field, but software applications may come in help by learning to recognize symbols from previously annotated documents and suggesting experts potential symbols and likely classification in newly acquired documents to be validated, thus easing the task. This contribution introduces the NOTAE system that, in addition to the aforementioned task, provides non expert users with tools to explore the documents annotated by experts.
This work is supported by the ERC grant NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786572, Advanced Grant 2017, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
Poster by Nina Sietis
Talks by Nina Sietis
by Gabriel Estrada San Juan, Christian Høgel, Moschos Morfakidis Filactós / Μόσχος Μορφακίδης-Φυλακτός, Łukasz Różycki, Encarnación Motos Guirao, José-Domingo Rodríguez Martín, Ignasi Vidiella Puñet, Francisco del Rio Sanchez, Carlos Martínez Carrasco, Jordina Sales-Carbonell, Antonio Manuel Poveda Navarro, David Pérez Moro, Juan Bautista Juan López, Mariam Chkhartishvili, Agustín R . Avila, Nicola Bergamo, Arantxa Illgen Izquierdo, Ángel Narro, Montserrat Camps-Gaset, Héctor Francisco, Panagiota Papadopoulou / Παναγιώτα Παπαδοπούλου, Marina Díaz Bourgeal, Raúl Villegas Marín, Ioannis Kioridis, Enrique Santos Marinas, Victoria Legkikh, Dmitry I Makarov, Nina Sietis, Paula Caballero Sánchez, Divna Manolova, Raúl Caballero-Sánchez, and Massimo Limoncelli
Books (Authored&Edited) by Nina Sietis
Books by Nina Sietis
Digitalia. Rivista del digitale nei beni culturali, 2023
L’articolo offre una panoramica sul progetto MeMo – Memory of Montecassino (vincitore del bando P... more L’articolo offre una panoramica sul progetto MeMo – Memory of Montecassino (vincitore del bando PRIN 2020 – CUP H33C22000060001), mirato alla conoscenza e alla valorizzazione del patrimonio manoscritto e a stampa antico conservato presso l’Abbazia di Montecassino. Dopo un’introduzione dedicata alla descrizione della ricca eredità di codici, documenti medievali e antichi libri a stampa prodotti e/o conservati presso il cenobio benedettino, si presentano gli obiettivi del progetto, frutto della pluriennale esperienza maturata dal team dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale nell’ambito della ricerca sui codici cassinesi e della didattica connessa con il manoscritto e il libro antico. Punto di partenza di MeMo sono la digitalizzazione e la catalogazione digitale del patrimonio cassinese, di cui si fornisce il dettagliato workflow. Si descrivono altresì gli strumenti e le tecnologie impiegati, finalizzati alla conservazione a lungo termine e alla diffusione capillare di immagini e descrizioni (come FITS, DOIs). In particolare, ci si sofferma sulla tecnologia IIIF, adoperata per la gestione delle immagini digitali in MeMo grazie alla collaborazione e alle innovative sperimentazioni di DBSeret, partner tecnologico dotato di ampia e qualificata esperienza nel settore del Manuscript image processing.
Scripta, 2022
This paper stems from the analysis of a marginal annotation on the manuscript Roma, Biblioteca An... more This paper stems from the analysis of a marginal annotation on the manuscript Roma, Biblioteca Angelica, gr. 120; it shows that the hand that penned it is the same that intervened in the margins of six other manuscripts (cf. Ai margini di una biblioteca: sulle tracce di un anonimo lettore bizantino, «Scripta» 12 [2019], pp. 183-201) and suggests a new identification.
Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–... more Conference Report: Neo-Paleography: Analysing Ancient Handwritings in the Digital Age, Basel, 27–29 January 2020
Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing s... more Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Digital Libraries: The Era of Big Data and Data Science, 2020
Scrineum, 2021
http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/scrineum/article/view/8663 The epistolary collection of T... more http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/scrineum/article/view/8663
The epistolary collection of Theodore the Studite (759-826), although incomplete, counts more than 500 letters, which prove to be a fundamental resource for reconstructing the life and activity of the famous iconodule. Surprisingly enough, the letters have never been considered for investigating the graphic activity of Theodore and the monks of the Constantinopolitan coenobium of Studios. The present contribution tries to remedy this lack, proposing some reflections on the compositional practices typical of the Studite abbot and his addressees, on the ways in which they exchanged letters and their literary works, on the material aspects of writing and on the books they read.
Scripta, 2019
This paper focuses on an anonymous reader responsible for several annotations in the margins of a... more This paper focuses on an anonymous reader responsible for several annotations in the margins of a group of books. The first part describes the palaeographical characteristics of this scribe’s hand; the second is concerned with the content of the marginal annotations written by him. Both these approaches assign the reader to the end of the 11th/beginning of the 12th century. Special attention is paid to the abbreviation system used by this hand.
Segno & Testo, 2019
This paper focuses on a new witness of the "In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae", a pamphl... more This paper focuses on a new witness of the "In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae", a pamphlet written by Nikephoros Gregoras. The work, now preserved in the manuscript Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana, gr. Z. 142, was copied by some collaborators of the author and was reviewed by him. Thanks to this discovery, a new analysis of the manuscript tradition of the pamphlet was carried out, a tradition that consists of four other manuscripts, A (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vati- cana, Vat. gr. 1086), B (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1085), J (Jerusalem, Patriarchichē Bibliothēkē, Monē Abraham, 51) and K (Wien, Österreichischen National-Bibliothek, Hist. gr. 104). The material investigation and the collation of the text led to the reconstruction of two ‘editions’, both dating back to the author.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2019
Leontios Eustratios, called Philoponos, was a prolific scribe and tireless traveler, though negle... more Leontios Eustratios, called Philoponos, was a prolific scribe and tireless traveler, though neglected by modern research. The first part of this article is devoted to the reconstruction of Leontios’ life and activity, while the second describes a new witness of the theological works by the patriarch Nicephorus and offers new data for research on philology and textual transmission.
L'idea di questo convegno nasce dal desiderio di un confronto su questioni aperte negli studi pal... more L'idea di questo convegno nasce dal desiderio di un confronto su questioni aperte negli studi paleografici greci e latini, quali il rapporto tra storia della scrittura e ricono-scimento di mani; la marginalizzazione di interi periodi della storia della scrittura medievale nella produzione paleografica; la questione della descrizione e della definizione delle scritture; la verifica dei metodi dell' indagine paleografica resa urgente dalle innovazioni della tecnologia e del digitale. Alcuni fra i temi indicati saranno al centro delle relazioni delle due giornate nell'auspicio che il dibattito possa stimolare altre e future riflessioni.
CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), 2022
The paper is published in: Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Trac... more The paper is published in:
Joint Proceedings of RCIS 2022 Workshops and Research Projects Track, co-located with the 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) Barcelona, Spain, May 17-20, 2022.
Edited by: Joao Araujo, Jose Luis de la Vara, Isabel Sofia Brito, Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Leticia Duboc, Giovanni Giachetti, Beatriz Marín, Estefania Serral, Alessandra Bagnato, Lidia Lopez
Submitted by: Jose Luis de la Vara
Published on CEUR-WS: 29-May-2022
****
The paper presents the project NOTAE, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Advanced Grant 2017, GA n. 786572, PI Antonella Ghignoli).
All the authors are currently team members or affiliated researchers of the project.
See also: http://www.notae-project.eu.
Proceedings of the 17th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL 2021) Padua, Italy, February 18-19, 2021, CEUR-WS: 24-Feb-2021, Edited by: Dennis Dosso, Stefano Ferilli, Paolo Manghi, Antonella Poggi, Giuseppe Serra, Gianmaria Silvello., 2021
Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing s... more Graphic symbols i.e. graphic entities drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text are the research object of the NOTAE project, which investigates them in the documentary practice of the late Roman State and Post-Roman Kingdoms (400-800 AD). While research results from the project are stored by filling forms resulting from the analysis of ancient documents, we argue that the availability of a navigable knowledge graph can ease the work of researchers at finding non trivial
implications in data. In this paper, we propose a first version of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph, and we outline future works and possible synergies.
Communications in Computer and Information Science. Book Series, 2020
Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - B... more Paper presented at "16h Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries", 30-31 January 2020 - Bari, Italy. Program and proceedings available here <https://kdde.di.uniba.it/ircdl20/index.php/program/>.
Free downloadable until 22th february 2020 here:
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4>
DOI: <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39905-4_12>
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit in a written text and representing something other or something more than a word of that text. The Project NOTAE represents the first attempt to investigate these graphic entities as a historical phenomenon from Late Antiquity to early medieval Europe in any written sources containing texts generated for pragmatic purposes (con-tracts, petitions, official and private letters, lists etc.). Identifying and classifying graphic symbols on such documents is a task that requires experience and knowledge of the field, but software applications may come in help by learning to recognize symbols from previously annotated documents and suggesting experts potential symbols and likely classification in newly acquired documents to be validated, thus easing the task. This contribution introduces the NOTAE system that, in addition to the aforementioned task, provides non expert users with tools to explore the documents annotated by experts.
This work is supported by the ERC grant NOTAE: NOT A writtEn word but graphic symbols, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 786572, Advanced Grant 2017, PI Antonella Ghignoli).