elena.spadini@unibas.ch
Universität Basel
Research and Infrastructure Support (RISE)
Spalenberg 65 - 4051 Basel
Switzerland

Research Navigator at the University of Basel within the Research and Infrastructure Support (RISE) team, working with projects of scholarly editing and digital libraries. Until 2021, postdoc at the University of Lausanne, in charge of the conception and the development of "Gustave Roud, Textes & Archives" (online Feb 2023).

Previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the ITN DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training), based at the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (Huygens Institute). Education in Romance Philology (bachelor, master, PhD) and Digital Humanities (master) at Sapienza Università di Roma, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, École nationale des chartes.

Instructor of Digital Philology and more in general Digital Humanities in a number of summer/winter schools and PhD programs in Switzerland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Greece.
Active member of the DH community, elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) from 2017 to 2020.

  Publication

See ORCID.

  Talks

• L'édition scientifique numérique. Modèles et perspectives de recherche. Lausanne, 22 Octobre 2019 - Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire. View slides →

• Avec Alessio Christen, Modelling the writing process. Cracow, 12 June 2019 - Genesis. View slides →

• Which Resources for which Editions. Modelling the Relationships between Witnesses. Lausanne, 3 June 2019 - Workshop on Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies. View slides →

• Avec Alessio Christen, Comment représenter et éditer une genèse ?. Lausanne, 24 mai 2019 - Séminaire Génétique des textes littéraires de Rudolf Mahrer (UNIL). View slides →

• « Une allée de rosiers et de digitales fleuries » : parcours dans l’édition des œuvres de Gustave Roud. Lille, 2 mai 2019 - Éditions savantes numériques : enjeux et réalisations. Séminaire interdisciplinaire-européen et international de l'école doctorale. View slides →

• CollateX and experiments with CollateX. Paris, January 2019 - Condorcet 2019 workshop (Paris): Digital Philology and Medieval Text Processing Workflow. View slides →

• Filologia digitale in classe: corrispondenze dall'archivio Monaci. Roma, dicembre 2018 - Ernesto Monaci 1918-2018: la fondazione della Filologia romanza e della Paleografia in Italia. View slides →

• Letture meccaniche della varia lectio. Liège, November 2018 - Ecdotica digitale e nuovi approcci critici del testo (Université de Liège). Collation of medieval texts: automatic differentiation of formal and substantive variants. View slides →

• Edizioni digitali di plastilina: modellare i dati da Dante ad oggi. Trento, ottobre 2018 - Digital Humanities Seminar, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Center for Information Technology. Data modelling for digital scholarly editions (XML, relational db, semantic web technologies). View slides →

• Exercises in modelling: textual variants. Lausanne, June 2018 - Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018). Conceptual model and implementations in different data-formats for describing and annotating textual variants. View slides →

• Querying Variants. Boccaccio's Commedia. Leipzig, July 2017 - "Culture & Technology" European Summer University in Digital Humanities. View slides →

• A spoonful of sugar: TEI Publisher. 2017 January - Dixit Workshop The educational and social impact of Digital Scholarly Edition. A section of the workshop was devoted to digital tools used in educational contexts. This paper focuses on eXist-DB (TEI Publisher) and how it has been used to publish the data produced during the course Laboratorio Monaci. View slides →

• Collation and base ms. 2016 September / October - A paper on semi-automatic collation of medieval texts and the role of the base manuscript (pairwise and multiple alignment). AIUCD (Venezia) / ESTS-DiXiT (Antwerp). View slides [en] → Vedi slides [it] → Vedi video [it] →

• Presentation vs data. 2015 September - DiXiT Convention 1 "Software, technologies, standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition". Magdalena Turska, Gioele Barabucci and I on a provocative panel, taking extreme position for the purpose of the discussion. My role was to defend presentation, while in real life I would say both are essential. View slides →

• Document Changes. 2015 September - DChanges 2015 is the third edition of the International Workshop on (Document)Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization in conjunction with the 15th ACM SIGWEB International Symposium on Document Engineering. View slides →

• Panorama strumenti. 2015 Maggio - Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze del testo Curriculum Filologia e letterature romanze. Un panorama di programmi per la codifica, la collazione e l'analisi dei testi. View slides →

• Origin prose Lancelot. 2014 Juillet - XXIVe Congrès de la Société Internationale Arthurienne. Notes sur l'origine du Roman de Lancelot en prose; texte et contexte au début du XIIIe siècle. View slides →

• Outils numériques. 2014 Septembre - Outils numériques pour l'édition des textes. Mémoire de l'École Nationale des Chartes, master "Technologies numériques appliquées à l'histoire". View slides →

  Ongoing projects

• Gustave Roud. Œuvres complètes. Pour en savoir plus, voici la page du projet.

• Collate medieval languages. With Jean-Baptiste Camps et Lucence Ing, we develop solutions for the alignment and collation of medieval texts in multiple witnesses. Here is our working repo.

• La Commedia di Boccaccio. La Commedia di Boccaccio is an ongoing project carried on with Sonia Tempestini, investigating the varia lectio of the three manuscripts of the Divina Commedia copied by Giovanni Boccaccio. Read about the project in a post at FontegaiaBlog or visit the website.

• Studi sul Lancelot en prose. Je poursuis les recherches sur la tradition manuscrite du Lancelot en prose commencées pendant le doctorat. Tesi di dottorato di ricerca in Scienze del Testo, XXVII ciclo, Sapienza Università di Roma [IRIS Sapienza].

  Teaching

• Le volet numérique du projet « Gustave Roud. Œuvres complètes ». 2019 octobre, Université de Lausanne - Master Histoire du livre et édition critique des textes, séminaire de Daniel Maggetti. Slides

• Textes et éditions numériques. Programme doctoral en études numériques. Université de Lausanne, 25-26 avril 2019. PrésentationProgramme et matériaux

• École d'hiver Encoder/Exploiter/Diffuser. Les humanités numériques dans les projets doctoraux. Université de Poitiers, janvier 2019. Site web de l'écoleCours Publication web

• Éditions critiques, RDF et Gustave Roud. 2018 novembre, Université de Lausanne - Publication numérique, cours de Isaac Pante. Slides

• Modélisation de données : interpretation et collaboration. 2018 novembre, Université de Neuchâtel - Introduction aux humanités numériques, cours de Simon Gabay. Slides

• Génétique textuelle et technologies numériques. 2018 octobre, Université de Lausanne - Master Histoire du livre et édition critique des textes, séminaire de Daniel Maggetti. Slides

• Introduction aux éditions numériques et à la génétique textuelle. 2017 octobre, Université de Lausanne - Master Histoire du livre et édition critique des textes, séminaire de Daniel Maggetti. Éditions numériques Génétique textuelle

• Edizioni digitali di corrispondenze. 2017 giugno, Pisa - Scuola estiva Strumenti Digital per Umanisti. Materiali

• Digital Scholarly Editions. 2017 April, Athens - DiXiT Workshop Digital Scholarly Editions and Modern Greek Studies. Materials

• Laboratorio Monaci. 2016-2017, Roma (Università Sapienza). Attività didattica per dottorato Scienze del Testo e tirocinio per studenti. Materiali

• Automatic collation. 2016 November, Amsterdam - DiXiT Workshop Code and Collation: Training Textual Scholars. Materials

• TEI encoding. 2015 July, Oxford - DHOXSS Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School. Leveraging the Text Encoding Initiative course. Materials

  Community

• Scientific committee member. Digital Humanities 2020, Carrefours / Intersections, Ottawa, 20-25 July 2020.

• European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Executive Committee elected member (2017-2020).

• Co-chair. Workshop on Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies (#graphSDE2019), Lausanne, 3-4 June 2019

• Program committee member. Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018). Lausanne, 4-5 juin 2018.

• Program and organization committee member. The educational and social impact of Digital Scholarly Editions [DiXiT Workshop]. Roma, 24 January 2017.

• Program and organization committee member. Code and collation. Training textual scholars [DiXiT Workshop]. Den Haag, 2 -4 November 2016.

• Program and organization committee member. Technologies, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition [DiXiT Convention 1]. Den Haag, 14-18 September 2015.

  Academic blogging

• Spadini, E. (2017). FonteGaia Blog. Le traitement automatique des langues médiévales. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E. (2017). DiXiT Blog. Scholarly editing around Europe. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E., & Sichani, A-M. (2017). DiXiT Blog. The Educational and Social Impact of Digital Scholarly Editions. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E., & Tempestini, S. (2017). FonteGaia Blog. La 'Commedia' di Boccaccio. Interrogare la varia lectio. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E. (2016). FonteGaia Blog. Collazione a colazione 1 / 2 / 3. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E., & Bleeker, E. (2016). DiXiT Blog. Code and Collation: training textual scholars. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E., & Caria, F. (2015). DiXiT Blog. Net 7 workshop: semantic web in practice. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E. (2015). DiXiT Blog. Christophe Guéret: Stop making tools! An afternoon at the E-Humanities Group. Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.
• Spadini, E., Longo, L., & Zanardo, M. (2015). FonteGaia Blog. Una nuova fonte per il Lexicon of Scholarly Editing: Gaia! Hypotheses - Academic Blogs.