The Project


What is this?

The “Towards a Digital Dante Encyclopedia” is a three years Italian National Research Project, started in 2013, which aims at building a prototypical digital library endowed with services supporting scholars in creating, evolving and consulting a digital encyclopedia of Dante Alighieri and of his works. The digital library is based on a semantic representation of Dante’s works and of the knowledge embedded in them in RDF language, a language recommended by the W3C for the representation of knowledge. Currently, using our web application scholars can:

  • visualize data about Dante's primary sources;
  • visualize data about authors cited by Dante in his works;
  • visualize data about thematic areas that characterize the Dante's primary sources;
  • visualize data about types of reference.

The automatic visualization of data about Dante's primary sources allows to explore the dynamics of the multi-faceted culture of Dante in relation to the diverse and often conflicting stages of his biography and to study the evolution in time of Dante’s cultural background.

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Cited Works

Primary Sources cited by Dante in his works.

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Cited Authors

Authors cited by Dante in his works.

 
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Thematic Areas

Thematic areas that characterize the primary sources.

History of the Project

2013 - 2016

  • 2013

    Ontology creation. Ontology population: Convivio.

  • 2014

    Ontology population: Monarchia, De vulgari eloquentia, Vita Nova and Vita Nuova. First demo of DanteSource web application.

  • 2015

    Work in progress - Ontology population: Rime, Egloge, Epistole. Graphic restyling of the web application and addition of new functionalities.

  • 2016

    ...to be continued?