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.
Cited Authors
Authors cited by Dante in his works.
Thematic Areas
Thematic areas that characterize the primary sources.