OpenData: OpenGadda

OpenGadda is an ambitious project that aims to handle the oftentimes discussed problematic of copyright, in the textual scholarship field, through the employment of all the - freely accessible - data and metadata related to a specific author. Furthermore, this project will involve the creation of a future paradigm and model that will further showcase the shift from a media-oriented perspective to a data-oriented one and explore the concepts of work and document in the digital era and what they entail in this specific case, the one of Carlo Emilio Gadda, as none of the Gadda’s works are currently available freely to the public due to copyright laws. To obviate this problem, it was chosen to proceed by creating a collection of digital reproductions of different publicly available documents of this author, enhanced through the tools of data visualization and storytelling; specifically, the project focused on the author’s archives and library.