Elena Spadini studied Romance Philology (PhD) and Digital Humanities (MA) at the University of Rome Sapienza, École nationale des chartes and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. From 2014 to 2017 she was a Marie Curie fellow (ITN DiXiT) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she focused on software for scholarly editing. From 2017 to 2021 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne and since 2022 she is a Research Navigator at the University of Basel, where she collaborates with digital humanities and in particular scholarly editing projects. She is in charge of the digital component of the project « Gustave Roud. Œuvres complètes », directed by D. Maggetti and C. Jaquier. Elena is guest editor of the RIDE issues on software reviews and she co-directs the Digital Romanistics seminar series.
Research interests
- digital philology
- scholarly editing
- manuscript studies
- born-digital literary sources
Publications
Journal articles
Elli, Tommaso, Andrea Benedetti, Valentina Pallacci, Elena Spadini, and Michele Mauri. 2023. “Designing Network Visualizations for Genetic Literary Criticism.” Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education 16 (31): 25–38. https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.31.176.
Birnbaum, David J., and Elena Spadini. 2020. “Reassessing the Locus of Normalization in Machine-Assisted Collation.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14 (3). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/3/000489/000489.html.
Nury, Elisa, and Elena Spadini. 2020. “From Giant Despair to a New Heaven: The Early Years of Automatic Collation.” It - Information Technology 62 (2). https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2019-0047.
Spadini, Elena. 2020. “L’epistolario di Ernesto Monaci, dall’archivio alla classe.” Studj Romanzi XV (nuova serie): 321–332.
Christen, Alessio, and Elena Spadini. 2019. “Modeling Genetic Networks. Gustave Roud’s Œuvre, from Diary to Poetry Collections.” Umanistica Digitale 7. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/9063.
Spadini, Elena. 2019. “Risorse e sfide per la collazione automatica di testi medievali.” Ecdotica 16: 217–238.
Spadini, Elena. 2019. “Exercises in Modelling: Textual Variants.” International Journal of Digital Humanities 1 (2): 289–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-019-00023-7.
Spadini, Elena, and Magdalena Turska. 2019. “XML-TEI Stand-off Markup. One Step Beyond.” Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 8 (2): 225–239. https://doi.org/10.1353/dph.2019.0025.
Tempestini, Sonia, and Elena Spadini. 2019. “Querying Variants: Boccaccio’s ‘Commedia’ and Data-Models.” Digital Medievalist12 (1). https://doi.org/10.16995/dm.81.
Spadini, Elena, Wout Dillen, and Monica Zanardo. 2016. “Il Lexicon of Scholarly Editing: una bussola nella Babele delle tradizioni filologiche.” Ecdotica 13: 169-197.
Spadini, Elena. 2015. “Processing Dante’s Commedia: From Sanguineti’s Edition to Digital Tools.” RIDE 3. https://doi.org/10.18716/ride.a.3.2.
Spadini, Elena. 2014. “«En autre penser». Il ms. Hamilton 49 nella tradizione del Lancelot in prosa.” Critica del Testo XVII (1): 141–175.
Spadini, Elena. 2012. “Il motivo della donna alla fonte nella lirica romanza. Appunti intorno a un corpus poetico.” Critica del Testo XV (2): 79–113.
Edited volumes and journal issues
Sichani, Anna-Maria, and Elena Spadini, eds. 2022. Tools and Environments. RIDE – A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, issue 15. https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-15/.
Spadini, Elena, Francesca Tomasi and Georg Vogeler, eds. 2021. Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies in Scholarly Digital Editing. Norderstedt: BoD. https://www.i-d-e.de/publikationen/schriften/bd-15-graph-data-models.
Sichani, Anna-Maria and Elena Spadini, eds. 2020. Tools and Environments. . RIDE – A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, issue 11. https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-11.
Boot, Peter, Anna Cappellotto, Wout Dillen, Franz Fischer, Aodhán Kelly, Andrea Mertgens, Anna-Maria Sichani, Elena Spadini, and Dirk van Hulle, eds. 2017. Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing. Leiden: Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-scholarly-editing.
Book chapters
Spadini, Elena and José Luis Losada Palenzuela. (in print). “Reusing data from editions” In Digital Editing & Publishing in the Twenty-First Century. Scottish University Press.
Spadini, Elena. 2019. “Producing Scholarly Digital Editions.” In Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship, 251–260. Göttingen University Press. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2019-1146.
Barabucci, Gioele, Elena Spadini, and Magdalena Turska. 2017. “Data vs. Presentation. What Is the Core of a Scholarly Digital Edition?” In Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing, 37–46. Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-scholarly-editing.
Spadini, Elena. 2017. “The Role of the Base Manuscript in the Collation of Medieval Texts.” In Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing, 345–350. Sidestone Press. https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-scholarly-editing.
Spadini, Elena. 2015. “Annotating Document Changes.” In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on (Document) Changes: Modeling, Detection, Storage and Visualization - DChanges 2015, 8:23–26. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2881631.2881637.
Digital scholarly editions
Spadini, Elena (technical editor: data modelling, encoding, processing and web development). 2022. Gustave Roud. Textes & Archives, dir. by Claire Jaquier and Daniel Maggetti. URL: https://roud.unil.ch. ARK: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/1/0112.
Elena Spadini, ed. 2023. Bernard Comment, "En mer". A scholarly edition prototype including born-digital and paper genetic materials. URL: https://comment-enmer.github.io. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8012000
Reviews
Spadini, Elena. 2018. “[Review of:] Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. Harvard University Press, 2016.” Umanistica Digitale 2. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/7344.
Spadini, Elena, and Anna-Maria Sichani. 2016. “[Review of:] Pierazzo, Elena. Digital Scholarly Editing. Theories, Models and Methods. Ashgate, 2015.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31 (3): 513–516. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqw033.
Spadini, Elena. 2016. “[Review of:] ‘Les Aventures des Bruns. Compilazione guironiana del secolo XIII attribuibile a Rustichello da Pisa, Edizione critica a cura di Claudio Lagomarsini, Firenze, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2014.’” Revue Critique de Philologie Romane 17: 39–46.
Academic blogging
Fontegaia. Italianisme et humanités numériques, Hypotheses, Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo). 2015 – 2017. http://fontegaia.hypotheses.org
DiXiT. Digital Scholarly Edition Initial Training Network, Hypotheses, Centre for Open Electronic Publishing (Cléo). 2014 – 2017. http://dixit.hypotheses.org
Presentations
Invited talks
2023 May 3. Semantic web and scholarly editions: where are we? Towards a philological web of data. ATNU Virtual Visiting Speaker Series. University of Newcastle.
2023 March 8. DH Research Hub – Reframing failure. School of Advanced Study, London.
2022 November 25. Modelli e contesti per una filologia digitale. Dottorato in Italianistica. Sapienza University of Rome.
2022 September 26. Reuse of digital editions. Exposing data. Éditions critiques numériques et multilinguisme. University of Montréal.
2021 November 15. Boccaccio lettore e scrittore della Commedia. Variantistica digitale. Digital Dante Days. University Ca' Foscari Venice.
2021 June 9. Un tagliacarte digitale per la corrispondenza di Ernesto Monaci. Le nuove frontiere del dictamen. University of Siena.
2021 June 1. L'édition numérique : standards et bonnes pratiques. Fondamentaux des humanités numériques pour la recherche. University of Geneva.
2019 October 22. L’édition scientifique numérique. Modèles et perspectives de recherche. Formation doctorale interdisciplinaire. University of Lausanne.
2019 May 2. « Une allée de rosiers et de digitales fleuries » : parcours dans l’édition des œuvres de Gustave Roud. Éditions savantes numériques : enjeux et réalisations. Séminaire interdisciplinaire-européen et international de l'école doctorale. Lille.
2019 January 14-18. Experiments with CollateX. Digital Philology and Medieval Text Processing Workflow, École nationale des chartes and Institut de recherche et d'histoire et des textes (Paris).
2018 December 18-19. Filologia digitale in classe: corrispondenze dall'archivio Monaci. Ernesto Monaci 1918-2018: la fondazione della Filologia romanza e della Paleografia in Italia, Sapienza University of Rome.
2018 November 12-13. Letture mecchaniche della ‘varia lectio’. Ecdotica digitale e nuovi approcci critici del testo, University of Liège.
2018 October 5. Edizioni digitali di plastilina. Modellare i dati, da Dante ad oggi. Digital Humanities Seminar, Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Center for Information and Communication Technology.
Conference presentations (peer-reviewed)
2023 July. Spadini, Elena and José Luis Losada Palenzuela. “Scholarly Digital Editions: APIs and Reuse Scenarios”. DH2023 'Collaboration as Opportunity', Graz, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8140728
2023 July. Spadini, Elena, Alessio Christen, Valentina Pallacci, Tommaso Elli, Andrea Benedetti, Daniel Maggetti, Michele Mauri and Stéphane Pétermann. “Genetic networks: data model and visualisations”. DH2023 'Collaboration as Opportunity', Graz, Austria. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8145191
2020 September. Nury, Elisa and Elena Spadini. “Manuscripts and digital tools: the long history of machine-assisted collation“. Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2019 July. Camps, Jean-Baptiste, Lucence Ing and Elena Spadini. “Collating Medieval Vernacular Texts. Aligning Witnesses, Classifying Variants“. DH2019 'Complexities', Utrecht, The Netherlands. https://hal.science/hal-02268348
2019 June. Christen, Alessio and Elena Spadini. “Modelling the writing process“. Genesis2019 'Genetic Criticism: from Theory to Practice', Krakow, Poland.
2018 June. Spadini, Elena. “Exercises in modelling: textual variants“. COMHUM2018 'Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities'. Lausanne, Switzerland.
2018 January. Spadini, Elena. “Gustave Roud, « Œuvres complètes ». Edizione digitale e RDF“. AIUCD2018 'Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age. Memory, Humanities and Technologies', Bari, Italy.
2018 January. Spadini, Elena. “A spoonful of sugar: encoding and publishing in the classroom“. AIUCD2017 Workshop 'The Educational and Social Impact of Digital Scholarly Editions', Rome, Italy.
2016 October. Spadini, Elena. “Semi-automatic collation of medieval texts: the role of the base manuscript“. European Society for Textual Scholarship. Antwerp, Belgium.
2016 July. Spadini, Elena and Sonia Tempestini. “Interrogare la varia lectio. La Commedia di Boccaccio“. XXVIII Congrès international de Linguistique et Philologie romanes. Rome, Italy.
2015 September. Spadini, Elena and Magdalena Turska. “XML-TEI standoff markup. One step beyond“. Annual Conference of the Text Encoding Initiative. Lyon, France.
2014 July. Spadini, Elena. “À l'origine du Roman de Lancelot en prose“. XXIVe Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Bucarest, Romania.
Other academic activities
Conference chair
Open Up Digital Editions, Zurich, 24-26 January 2024.
Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies, Lausanne, 4-5 June 2019.
Conference scientific committee member
Computational Humanities Research 2023, Paris, 6-8 December 2023.
COMHUM2022 'Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities'. Lausanne, 9-10 June 2022.
Computational Humanities Research 2021, Amsterdam, 17-19 November 2021.
DH2020 'Carrefours/Intersections', Ottawa, 20-25 July 2020.
Graph Technologies in the Digital Humanities. Mainz, 18-19 January 2019.
COMHUM2018 'Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities'. Lausanne, 4-5 June 2018.
Board of scientific associations
Elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH). 2017-2020.
Editorial board
RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources.
Translations
(Old French to Italian). Artù, Lancillotto e il Graal, a cura di Lino Leonardi, «I Millenni», Einaudi, 2020-2023.
(English to Italian). Voyant Tools. https:/voyant-tools.org/?lang=it
(English to Italian). Digital Scholarly Editions: Manuscripts, Texts and TEI Encoding https://teach.dariah.eu/course/view.php?id=32
