italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues,
I would be very grateful if members of this list would point me to Italian studies
scholars/centres active in southern Indian universities.
My current research focuses on visualization of complex textual traditions, and the
genetic study of literary texts. In the last four years we have been working on
creating an online tool for handling multiple simultaneous versions of documents.
Recently, I became particularly interested in ancient Indian texts. I was thinking
for example about the both linguistically and structurally multi-layered tradition
of historical and religious texts (starting from the Rigveda on), which will be an
ideal testbed for our Multi-Versions Documents software. We made a number of
experiments with European literary texts, including ancient Greek and Latin, but I
am convinced that in order to illustrate the full potential of this system we would
need a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic approach. Why not challenge us with a
possible collaboration East-West? Of course I realise how difficult would be to work
with ancient Indian texts, and this why I am looking forward to an Indian
partnership.
Basically I am looking for variant texts - i.e. multi-version documents - in digital
form for publishing them in a wiki, which will be open for text manipulation and
editing to our partners. We have presented the first wiki prototype at Digital
Humanities 2008, and you can find our paper in the conference book of abstracts:
http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/
I will be visiting South of India for one month starting on October 21st, and I am
looking forward to establish formal contacts with Indian research institutions and
potential parteners.
Thanks in advance for your help
Domenico
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Domenico Fiormonte
Ricercatore in Linguistica
Universita' Roma Tre
http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/italian/digitalvariants/
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