Presentation of the Digital Culture Lab of the University of Pisa http://www.labcd.unipi.it/

1. L a b C D : a p l a c e f o r a D I G I C R A F T

2. W H A T
The LabCD (Digital Culture Laboratory) is a Interdepartmental Center
Promotes researches and activities to preserve and share cultural heritage through
the new media and to develop models and languages to understand the digital turn.

3. W H A T
DEP. OF
PHILOLOGY,
LITERATURE
AND LINGUISTICSDEP. OF
ECONOMICS
AND MANAGEMENT
DEP. OF
CIVILIZATION
AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
DEP. OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE
DEP. OF
POLITICAL SCIENCES

4. W H E N
2002 2004-2005
PROFESSIONAL
COURSE
2004 -2005
2005
FOUNDATION
MA
2006 -2010
REFORM
MA
2010
FOUNDATION
BA
FIRST
GRADUATED
REFORM
BA
2009
REFORM
BA
2010
LABCD
(ONLY LAB)
2014
LABCD
CENTER
Course degree in Digital Humanities and LabCD

5. W H O
UNIVERSITY STAFF
BA /MA STUDENTS IN DH & H
(INTERNSHIP)
EXTERNAL EXPERTS
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
(INTERNSHIP)
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS

6. W H A T F O R ?
Cooperation with Institutes and Research Centers in the field of Digital Humanities (DH)
Interdisciplinary researches difficult to locate in a traditional Department
Training and specialized courses for the use of new technologies
Meetings (seminars, conferences, workshops) with people who carry on research and initiatives
on DH open to the market
Scientific communication with new media
Open access publications and technologies, in cooperation with the university library system.

7. DH is an unavoidably and profoundly interdisciplinary field
each project is a complex set of activities and skills that crosses, by its true nature,
several fields, each one with is “new” methodology
this change of practice and approach implies a sort of methodological revolution,
because it requires an organization of work similar to a Renaissance workshop (each
project is a DIGICRAFT) with an articulated division of labor in relation to several
levels of skills
education and training could be provided by the same learners coordinated by a
strong and mature central idea
I N T E R D I S C I P L I N A R Y I S M A N D A T O R Y

8. O P E N N E S S
Each project is taken over as an interdisciplinary complex object that requires
specific skills, different but related competences
Students of the Bachelor and Master's degree in DH work as interns or
undergraduates
The work is mastered by one “manager” (a Digital Humanist) but followed by
experts (graduated, PhDs), who assign specific tasks ensuring an active
connection among everyone in the team (collaborative tools)
A DH project means sharing data not only among researches but also thinking
how to share the content with the general public
Openness is then a natural result, even it is also an ethical, political and
philosophical choice as the Digital Manifesto 2.0 says:
the digital is the realm of the open, open source, open resources

9. In a Renaissance workshop different objects were produced: statues, paintings,
goldsmith etc. Each handwork was a “project” that asked:
a strong artistic and cultural vision
(message, style, function, purpose, style)
a complex set of different techniques
mastered by different workers with different skills
the owner (or the head-artist) had not to be an expert in each technique, but his
employees could in many ways be more skilled then him, all members of the
workshop could learn from each others.
the owner had to keep the team together with a clear idea of the work itself
T H E R E N A I S S A N C E W O R K S H O P

10. D I G I C R A F T
I N A N E W R E N A I S S A N C E L A B
Each project is taken over as an interdisciplinary complex object that requires specific skills,
different but related competences
Students of the Bachelor and Master's degree in DH work as interns or undergraduates
The work is mastered by one “manager” (a Digital Humanist) but followed by experts (graduated, PhDs),
who assign specific tasks ensuring an active connection among everyone in the team (collaborative tools)

11. A critical digital edition of a medieval
manuscript (XIII century) that invites
readers to actively participate
Focus: Digital Philology / History
Competences: history & public
history, text encoding, philology,
paleography, codicology, writing,
digital images, collaborative tools,
web design, management
D I G I T A L E D I T I O N S
Codice Pelavicino. Edizione digitale, a cura di E. Salvatori, E. Riccardini, L. Balletto, R. Rosselli del Turco,
C. Alzetta, C. Di Pietro, C. Mannari, R. Masotti, A. Miaschi, 2014 <http://pelavicino.labcd.unipi.it>
ISBN 978-88-902289-0-2; DOI 10.13131/978-88-902289-0-2

12. D I G I T A L E D I T I O N S
CODICE PELAVICINO DIGICRAFT
EDITION
Paleographers
Historians
WEB SITE
HD MA Graduated
HISTORY
Scholars Local
Historians
EVT SOFTWARE
COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
Digital Philology Scholar
DH MA Students
MANAGER
Digital Public Historian
Scholar
TEXT CODING
Scholar
MADH Students
BA DH Students
SERVER
University Staff

13. a complex project to enhance the cultural heritage of an Italian rural valley through the active
participation of residents. Invented archives of video interviews and pictures; webGIS of cultural heritage,
traditional study
I N V E N T E D A R C H I V E S

14. Focus: Digital Public History
Competences: history & archaeology, public
history & archaeology, digital libraries,
education, writing, dramatize, GIS, digital
images and videos, collaborative tools, web
design, management
Who: scholars, PhD, DH graduated, BA DH
students, MA DH students, HS students
W E B G I S

15. EPIGRAPISA: a partly driven and partly spontaneous
reading of the epigraphic messages left over time in a
city (not edition by now)
EPIDOC CREATOR: web application that allow
everyone, even unskilled users, to enter information
about the epigraphs of any age (mainly from Medieval to
Contemporary age), creating a valid encoded document
for each epigraph. The site enables the user to work
autonomously, i.e. without the intermediary of third
parties, and the encoding of the texts have to follow the
Epidoc scheme.
Competences: history, public history, epigraphy,
paleography, writing, dramatize, processing images,
audio and video, web design
Focus: Digital Public History
D I G I T A L E P I G R A P H Y

16. D I G I T A L E D I T I O N S
CODICE PELAVICINO DIGICRAFT
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
MA Students
HS Students
ARCHAEOLOGY
PdH
MA Graduated
MA Students
ADMINISTRATION
Town Hall Staff
SERVER
University Staff
MANAGER
Digital Public Historian
HISTORY
Scholars Humanities
Students
WEB GIS
Scholars PhD
WEB SITE
HD MA Graduated

17. M U L T I M E D I A C O N T E N T S
VIDEOPODCAST & AUDIOPODCAST LECTURES - LESSONS - INTERVIEWS - VIDEO ADS

18. T E M P L A T E S F O R W E B
WEB DESIGN
VISUAL DESIGN
GRAPHIC DESIGN
INTERACTION DESIGN
INTERFACE DESIGN
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN

19. E B O O K S - 3 D M O D E L I N G

20. S C I E N T I F I C C O M M U N I C A T I O N
WEB SITE
VIDEO
EBOOK
CARDS
E-AGENDA
POSTER
FOLDER
MAILING LIST
GADGETS
MAPS

21. info@labcd.unipi.it