
Director & Senior Research Software Analyst
Arianna has over 15 years’ experience in collaborative Digital Humanities (DH) research, and 10 years’ experience in research management, and digital research infrastructures (inclusive of research policy strategy and implementation). She is an active member of the Research Software Engineers (RSE) and DH national and international communities; she researches and advocates for a holistic understanding of digital infrastructures and of modelling processes of cultural-historical objects and phenomena for the application of computational methods.
Her personal research interests focus on modelling processes (from data modelling to design and analysis). She lectured and published on humanities computing, in particular on digital manuscript studies and editing; she has organised conferences and workshops in digital humanities, and is an active member of its international community.
She holds a PhD in Manuscript and Book Studies (digital palaeography, University of Siena), an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London) and a BA Hons in Communication sciences (computational linguistics, University of Siena).
She worked at King’s in the past as Research Associate (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, 2003-2009). From 2009 to 2012, she worked as Science officer at the European Science Foundation (Humanities) where her primary responsibilities included the supervision of instruments to fund collaborative research in the humanities and the coordination of strategic activities. From 2013 she worked as Research Facilitator at the University of Roehampton for three years, where she expanded the research funding portfolio and supported research strategies across the Humanities and beyond. She was appointed Director of KDL in 2022.
See list of publications.
Projects
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Alice Thornton's BooksAT
University of Edinburgh
2021–2024
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Living with MachinesLwM
Queen Mary, University of London, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, The British Library, The Alan Turing Institute
2023–2023
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Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)Radical Translations
FAH Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Milano-Bicocca
2019–2023
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Ego Media: Life Writing and Online AffordancesEgoMedia
FAH Department of English, FAH Department of History
2018–2023
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Critical Modelling of Extensive Literary DataCritical Modelling
The Australia National University
2020–2023
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Digital Humanities Laboratory: Studying the Entanglement of Infrastructure and Technology in Knowledge ProductionMarie Curie Fellowship: DHLab
FAH Department of Digital Humanities
2020–2023
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Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in JordanMaDiH (مديح)
King's Digital Lab, Council for British Research in the Levant, Jordan Open Source Association, University of Oxford, Hashemite University
2019–2021
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Inscriptions of Roman CyrenaicaIRCYR
FAH Department of Classics, FAH Department of Digital Humanities
2020–2020
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État Civil
FAH Department of History
2019–2020
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Distant Reading across LanguagesDRaL
FAH Department of Digital Humanities
2018–2019
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Taming the Complexity of the LawTCL
Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
2018–2018
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A Publishing and Communication History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45MOI
University of London
2013–2017
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Clergy of the Church of England Database ProjectCCED
University of Kent, Durham University, FAH Department of History
1999–2009
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Georgian Papers ProgrammeGPP
College of William and Mary Libraries, Omohundro Institute, Royal Archives & Royal Library, FAH Department of History
2015–
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Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066/Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon EnglandPDE/PASE
University of Cambridge, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, FAH Department of History
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A Partnership for Conserving and Promoting Sudanese Cultural and Documentary HeritageSudan Memory
Sudanese Association for Archiving Knowledge, Africa City of Technology, National Records Office of Sudan, FAH Department of Digital Humanities
2022–
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Language of LandscapeLangscape
FAH Department of Digital Humanities
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Prosopography of the Byzantine WorldPBW
King's College London