ICARUS Meeting #14

Archives Départementale du Haut Rhin – Colmar, France
17-19 November 2014

Antonella Ambrosio and Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) attended the 14th ICARUS Meeting in Colmar.

Have a look at the new Activities Report here.

Seminar on ‘online resources for historians’:
Medieval and modern documentary sources and European archival inventories

Biblioteca della Società Napoletana di Storia Patria – Naples, Italy
12 November 2014, h. 9.00

Giovanni Vitolo and Antonella Ambrosio (University of Naples Federico II) will held a seminar titled “Le risorse in rete: materiale documentario dal IX al XIX secolo e inventari di archivi dei paesi europei” for the PhD candidates in History of the University of Naples Federico II. The lecture is part of the didactic activities within the ENArC project and will focus on Monasterium.net.

Have a look at the annotated bibliography!

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Welcome to our new trainee!

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Naples, Italy
October-December 2014

Our student Francesco Lerra (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Master Degree in History) started an internship within the ENArC-project. He is going to work on the data elaboration for digital archives to be published on Monasterium.net.

New Paper on
Innovative didactic technologies and the creation of digital archives in the ENArC Project

Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) published a paper on Il progetto ENArC. Attività didattiche innovative e creazione di archivi digitali in the volume Digital Humanities: progetti italiani ed esperienze di convergenza multidisciplinare. Atti del convegno annuale dell’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) Firenze, 13-14 dicembre 2012, edited by Fabio Ciotti, Roma, Sapienza Università Editrice, 2014 (Studi Umanistici. Serie Quaderni DigiLab).

Have a look at the article here. The whole volume here.

International agreement between ICARUS (International Centre for Archival Research, Vienna) and the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II

23 October 2014

By January 2014 an international agreement between ICARUS (International Centre for Archival Research, Vienna) and the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II became operative. Among its objectives figures the preparation of a digital edition of the charters of South Italy in Monasterium.net as well as a paper edition.
Within this agreement UNINA received a  financial contribution by the University of Naples Federico II to support the associated activities.

International Conference
Manuscript digitization and on line accessibility: what is going on?

Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Piazza della Chiesa Nuova 18 – Roma, Italy
23 October 2014

An international conference to discuss about the manuscript in the digital age and on ways to access to these resources.

The conference is organized by Bibliotheca Italica Mansucripta (Bim) and by Vallicelliana Library, in collaboration with the Association paléographique internationale culture écriture société (Apices) and the Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e delle informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU).

Within the conference, Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) will present a paper titled: Il portale Monasterium.Net. Archivi e documenti digitali online

Check out the Programme! Our fotos here.

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Seminar on radiocarbon dating for cultural heritage

Laboratorio CIRCE – San Nicola la Strada, Caserta, Italy
10 October 2014

Antonella Ambrosio and Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) attended the seminar on radiocarbon dating with the title 14Cose da sapere … per sapere tutto dal 14C (o quasi) organized by Centro per lo Sviluppo ed il trasferimento dell’innovazione nel settore dei beni culturali e ambientali – INNOVA SCaRL, in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica della Seconda Università di Napoli.

Further information and poster.

It’s finally here!
Digital diplomatics. The computer as a tool for the diplomatist?

Antonella Ambrosio, Sébastien Barret und Georg Vogeler (Eds.)
Digital diplomatics. The computer as a tool for the diplomatist?
Köln, Böhlau, 2014
(Beihefte zum Archiv für Diplomatik, Schriftgeschichte, Siegel- und Wappenkunde, 14)
1 October 2014

No technology since the introduction of photography had such an impact on questions and methods of diplomatics as the computer had. This book discusses the methodological consequences of doing diplomatic research on huge corpora and fast text mining technologies. It gives examples of how to enlarge the digitised charter corpus and demonstrates research applying information technology on medieval and early modern charters asking pure diplomatic questions as well as doing historical or philological research.

And here’s a bit from the introduction: “We especially appreciated the enthusiasm and the professionalism of the young members of the ENArC working group of the University Federico II in organizing the conference: Luca Aiello, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Alfonso Gentile, Ciro Romano, Enza Russo, Angelica Parisi, Stefania Persico, Concetta Prisco and Barbara Trenca.”

Further info on the editor’s site and summary of the contents here.

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Monasterium on the move

ICARUS – Vienna, Austria
1 October 2014

ICARUS has migrated the website and database to a new server directly under the Monasterium.net-Domain and has fused the former homepage of Monasterium.net with the ICARUS homepage: Now you can enter Monasterium.net via the starting page of ICARUS here.

Here are the links to the portal and to the database.

Antonella Ambrosio honoured with honorary citizenship of Vitulano

Vitulano, 13 September 2014

Antonella Ambrosio was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Vitulano (near Benevento, in South Italy) for her past and on-going research activities on the charters of the abbey S. Maria della Grotta of Vitulano.
In effect, the abbey’s charters are integrated in our joint project Monasterium.Net and also in a specific sub-project within the ENArC-project activities!
Have a look: SMG-Project

We are very pleased to share this success with you because we think that this is a special recognition by a local citizen community not only for our working group but also for you, our colleagues in Icarus and the Monasterium project.

Have a look: congrats of Icarus

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One-day conference
Da Vitulano all’Europa. L’abbazia di S. Maria della Grotta

Salone delle conferenze, Piazza SS. Trinità – Vitulano (BV), Italy
13 September 2014, h. 10:00

The conference is organized by the municipality of Vitulano, the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici of the University of Naples Federico II within the project ENArC (EU Culture Programme 2007-2013), in collaboration with the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria and ICARus, with the aim to evaluate the scientific acquisitions on the historical, artistic and documental patrimony of the abbey S. Maria della Grotta and its potentialities for the regional development.
The following papers will be presented by members of the new research group on the documental patrimony of the abbey S. Maria della Grotta:

Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), Per il recupero e la valorizzazione del patrimonio documentale: dalle pergamene all’archivio virtuale in Monasterium.Net

Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II),  Ciro Romano (Università di Jyvaskyla – Finlandia), Vera Isabell Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II), Le attività del gruppo di ricerca ENArC riguardo al patrimonio documentale dell’abbazia

Check out the programme here! Event on Facebook.

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MomCa presentation for the members of the
“Laboratorio di Archeologia Tardoantica e Medievale”

Associazione Storica del Medio Volturno – Piedimonte Matese, Italy
26 June 2014

The group ENArC UNINA (Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Ciro Romano, Vera Schwarz-Ricci – Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) presented the software MomCa to the members of the Laboratorio di Archeologia Tardoantica e Medievale, Federico Marazzi, Daniele Ferraiuolo and Alessia Frisetti, of the Università degli studi Suor Orsola Benincasa.

Have a look at the photos!

Interview: “The ICARUS Didactics Workgroup”

Rigsarkivet – Copenhagen, Denmark
18 June 2014

During the Plenum II of the Icarus-Meeting in Copenhagen Dr. Francesco Roberg (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg) interviewed Antonella Ambrosio and Vera Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) about the origins, the goals, the achievements and the future plans of the ICARUS Didactics Workgroup. Check out the interview!

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Workshop “Digital Edition for Diplomatists”

Rigsarkivet – Copenhagen, Denmark
17 June 2014 – h. 16.00

In occasion of the 13th ICARUS Meeting in Copenhagen UNINA organized a workshop on “Digital Edition for Diplomatists” with the participants: Georg Vogeler (Universität Graz), Manuel Salamanca (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone and Vera Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

ICARUS Meeting #13: UNINA and Didactics Activities Report

Rigsarkivet – Copenhagen, Denmark
16-18 June 2014

Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone and Vera Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) attended the 13th ICARUS Meeting in Copenhagen and presented the activities of UNINA and of the ICARUS Didactics Group in the last 6 months.

Have a look at the Meeting’s fotos here and the new Activities Report here.

ICARUS Meeting #13 & Archives Portal Europe Country Manager Meeting 

Rigsarkivet – Copenhagen, Denmark
16-18 June 2014

Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone and Vera Schwarz-Ricci (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) will represent UNINA at the 13th ICARUS Meeting in Copenhagen this month.

Check out the programme.

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UNINA Palaegraphy course 2013/2014

Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Naples, Italy
March-May 2014

This year’s Palaeography and Diplomatics course (academic course for Master Degree students in History), organized in context of the activities of the ENARC project, focused on the Diplomatics of the charters of the abbey of Santa Maria della Grotta (Vitulano, BV) and traced a path from traditional to new digital methodologies.
To foster consciousness of the changes induced by the new technologies and at the same time a sensibility for the original documents, the course started with the teaching of the traditional methodologies and the analysis of the abbey’s charters with the help of reproductions. It proceeded with a contextualising visit to the original setting of the abbey as a place of medieval charter production in South Italy and another visit to the conservation site of the charters, the Library of the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria, where the students analyzed the originals.
Thus attained an idea of the historical and archival context of the documentation, the students approached in a computer lab the same charters and private deeds as part of a digital archive, in this case a virtual reconstruction of the convents’ archive on Monasterium.net. They applied the methods of traditional diplomatic analysis using the digital editor of Monasterium.net, MOMCa, and investigated the parameters necessary for historical research on charters with the aim to enrich the digital archive. For example, among these criteria there will be the original expression of the date in the charter and the name of the notary. This new data will be inserted in the digital archive within summer 2014. This course also experimented the social network Facebook as a new didactic tool.

Have a look at the photos here.

Thanks to our trainees in scholarly editions!

Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Naples, Italy
May 2014

Our students Martina Magliacano and Luca Marino (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Master Degree in History) finished with success the internship in scholarly editions as a base for a digital scholarly edition. Thank you very much for your interest and commitment!

Visit to the ENArC UNINA Lab: The creation of digital archives of the medieval charters of South Italy

Dipartimento di Studi umanistici, via Nuova Marina, 33 – Naples, Italy
12 May 2014 – h. 11.30

ENArC UNINA participates in the activities of the initiative “Uni per tutti – tutti per l’Uni” with a visit to the ENArC UNINA Lab, organized by Antonella Ambrosio, Maria Rosaria Falcone, Vera Schwarz-Ricci.

Have a look at the aims of the initiative

Discussion of the book “Le pergamene di S. Maria della Grotta di Vitulano (secc. XI-XII)” and presentation of the virtual archive of the S. Maria della Grotta abbey on Monasterium.Net

Sala della Minerva, Via Sorgente, 4 – Piedimonte Matese, Italy
10 May 2014 – h. 17.00

Charters should not remain locked in archives but should travel in rhythm with our times. Nowadays this is possible thanks to digital technologies: Have a look at our project, the virtual archive of the abbey S. Maria della Grotta, on Monasterium.Net and participate in the discussion of the charters, the territory, the virtual archive and the project of the digital edition. You are welcome!

Event on Facebook.

Le pergamene di S. Maria della Grotta di Vitulano (secc. XI-XII)

The digitisation of the charters of the Biblioteca della Società Napoletana di Storia Patria

Have a look at our photographer’s presentation on the digitisation activities here!

ENArC UNINA didactic activities of the academic course in History 2014

Vitulano (BV), Italy
29 April 2014 – h. 10:00

With the assistance of the proloco camposauro Vitulano the teachers and the students of the 2014’s paleography course went looking for an original setting of the medieval charter production in South Italy: the abbey of S. Maria della Grotta near Vitulano. After an one-hour-stroll to the site and the inspection of the abbey’s ruins they enjoyed the beautiful view of the territory of Vitulano and the delicious food provided by the proloco members. Many thanks to the local organization in Vitulano (proloco camposauro di Vitulano), to the citizens and the mayor of Vitulano, Raffaele Scarinzi!

Have a look at the photos on Facebook.

S. Maria della Grotta’s charters – critical edition and virtual archive

Centro di Cultura “R. Calabria”, Piazza Orsini, 33 – Benevento, Italy
11 April 2014 – h. 17.30

Presentation of  volume titled Le pergamene di S. Maria della Grotta di Vitulano (secc. XI-XII), edited by Antonella Ambrosio.

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On this occasion the ‘Virtual Archive of Abbazia of S. Maria della Grotta’ will be presented which is now online among the Collections of Monasterium.net. The virtual archive is part of the activities of the ENArC project (EU, Culture Programme 2007-2013).

Take a look at the Programme.

Palaeographic research on digitized charters in Southern Italy

Historisches Kolleg – Munich, Germany
24-25 March 2014

In occasion of the international conference “Papsturkundenforschung zwischen internationaler Vernetzung und Digitalisierung. Neue Zugangsweisen zur europäischen Schriftgeschichte” Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II) will hold a paper on Palaeographic research on digitized charters in Southern Italy: experiences and desiderata.

Take a look at the programme.

Palaeographic research on digitized charters in Southern Italy

New partnership with archeojobs.it

http://www.archeojobs.com/
March 2014

ENArC UNINa formed a partnership with Archeojobs, the Italian platform for work and education in the cultural heritage sector.
Check out the site!

Welcome to our new trainees in scholarly editions!

Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Naples, Italy
January-June 2014

Our students Martina Magliacano and Luca Marino (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Master Degree in History) started an internship in scholarly editions within the activities of the ENArC project. They are going to edit the charters of the convent SS. Pietro e Sebastiano for the period 1400-1450, already available as digital reproductions on Monasterium.Net (Virtual reconstruction of the convent’s archive). The result will be a scholarly edition as a basis for a digital one with MOM-CA.

Our 2013 on SlideShare

Have a look!

Activities Report 2/2013 published

Download here.

Our press coverage …

Check out this presentation and this recension of Monasterium.Net, the European Archive in Italy!

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