Dr. Sofia Baroncini
Personal Details:
Since January 2024: Postdoc researcher at Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz (DH Lab)
From January to April 2023: Research period at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris (France)
From April to June 2022: visiting at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany)
2020-2023: PhD student in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna (Italy) and member of the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc, Bologna, Italy)
2017-2020: Master's degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna (Italy)
2014-2017: Bachelor's degree in Literature and Humanities Studies, University of Bologna (Italy)
From January to April 2023: Research period at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris (France)
From April to June 2022: visiting at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany)
2020-2023: PhD student in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna (Italy) and member of the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc, Bologna, Italy)
2017-2020: Master's degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna (Italy)
2014-2017: Bachelor's degree in Literature and Humanities Studies, University of Bologna (Italy)
Research interests
Semantic web (Ontologies, RDF data, SPARQL)
Graphs
Iconography and Iconology
Art history methodologies and historiography
Graphs
Iconography and Iconology
Art history methodologies and historiography
Publications
Baroncini, S., Daquino, M., & Tomasi, F. (2023). Are domain-specific theoretical approaches valuable for the application of new computational methods? The case study of Erwin Panofsky’s artworks interpretations and the semantic web. Althage, M.,Dröge, M., Hiltmann, T. Prinz, C. (ed.), Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen. Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8321994
Sartini, B., Baroncini, S., van Erp, M., Tomasi, F., & Gangemi, A. (2023). ICON: An Ontology for Comprehensive Artistic Interpretations. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594724
Baroncini, S., Sartini, B., Van Erp, M., Tomasi, F., & Gangemi, A. (2023). Is dc:subject enough? A landscape on iconography and iconology statements of knowledge graphs in the semantic web. Journal of Documentation, 79(7), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2022-0207
Baroncini, S., Daquino, M., & Tomasi, F. (2021). Modelling Art Interpretation and Meaning. A Data Model for Describing Iconology and Iconography. AIDAinformazioni, 1–2, 39–62. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.12967
Research projects:
Artworks, iconology, cultural history: a semantic approach for interdisciplinary research
The study aims at creating authoritative semantic data in the field of Iconology, a branch of art history concerning the artwork’s deep meaning understanding. By providing an ontological modelling of art contextual features, we will represent authoritative, iconological art historian’s interpretation in a structured way, with a focus on Early Modern art, further enriched with artworks’ contextual information, to foster an interdisciplinary study of the art pieces.