A Graph for Historical-Philological Archival Research: The Case of the Giuseppe Albini Collection. This paper presents a project dedicated to the Giuseppe Albini Archive, conceived to investigate the interplay between humanistic culture, academic institutions, and political power in early twentieth-century Italy. Albini (1863–1933) - classical philologist, professor, Rector of the University of Bologna, and Senator of the Italian Kingdom - offers a privileged point of view to observe processes of cultural and institutional legitimation within the academic world between the liberal era and the Fascist regime. The paper focuses on the description of the first phase of the project, devoted to the semantic modelling of the archival inventory and its transformation into an interoperable knowledge graph. This phase has been implemented through the adoption of Semantic Web ontologies (RiC-O and CIDOC CRM) and the development of a Python-based Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipeline aimed at migrating the archival data into Linked Data. The contribution outlines the ontological choices, mapping strategies, and pipeline architecture, showing how this initial phase provides the foundation for subsequent stages of the project, oriented toward collaborative semantic annotation, computational analysis of correspondence networks, and the visualization of the spatio-temporal dynamics of intellectual networks.
Il contributo presenta un progetto dedicato al Fondo Giuseppe Albini, concepito per analizzare l’intreccio tra cultura umanistica, istituzioni accademiche e potere politico nell’Italia del primo Novecento. La figura di Albini (1863–1933), filologo classico, docente, Rettore dell’Università di Bologna e Senatore del Regno, costituisce un punto di vista privilegiato per osservare i processi di legittimazione culturale e istituzionale che caratterizzarono il mondo accademico tra età liberale e regime. Il paper si concentra sulla descrizione della prima fase del progetto, dedicata alla modellazione dell’inventario archivistico del fondo e alla sua trasformazione in knowledge graph. Tale fase A stata realizzata mediante l’adozione di modelli ontologici canonici (RiC-O e CIDOC CRM) e lo sviluppo di una pipeline Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) in Python, finalizzata alla migrazione in Linked Data. Il contributo illustra le scelte ontologiche, le strategie di mapping e l’architettura della pipeline, azioni necessarie per sviluppi successivi del progetto, orientati all’annotazione semantica collaborativa, all’analisi computazionale delle reti di corrispondenza e alla visualizzazione delle dinamiche spazio-temporali delle reti intellettuali.
Giagnolini, L., Iheb Ouerghi, M., Pasqual, V., Tamagnini, C., Bonora, P., Tomasi, F. (2026). Un grafo per la ricerca storico-filologica in archivio: il caso del fondo Giuseppe Albini. AIUCD [10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8980].
Un grafo per la ricerca storico-filologica in archivio: il caso del fondo Giuseppe Albini
LUCIA GIAGNOLINI
;VALENTINA PASQUAL;CECILIA TAMAGNINI;PAOLO BONORA;FRANCESCA TOMASI
2026
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A Graph for Historical-Philological Archival Research: The Case of the Giuseppe Albini Collection. This paper presents a project dedicated to the Giuseppe Albini Archive, conceived to investigate the interplay between humanistic culture, academic institutions, and political power in early twentieth-century Italy. Albini (1863–1933) - classical philologist, professor, Rector of the University of Bologna, and Senator of the Italian Kingdom - offers a privileged point of view to observe processes of cultural and institutional legitimation within the academic world between the liberal era and the Fascist regime. The paper focuses on the description of the first phase of the project, devoted to the semantic modelling of the archival inventory and its transformation into an interoperable knowledge graph. This phase has been implemented through the adoption of Semantic Web ontologies (RiC-O and CIDOC CRM) and the development of a Python-based Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) pipeline aimed at migrating the archival data into Linked Data. The contribution outlines the ontological choices, mapping strategies, and pipeline architecture, showing how this initial phase provides the foundation for subsequent stages of the project, oriented toward collaborative semantic annotation, computational analysis of correspondence networks, and the visualization of the spatio-temporal dynamics of intellectual networks.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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