Working with Galileo – with Digital Formats and Methods

Conferences and Outreach

Humanities and Cultural Heritage in the Digital World

Galilean Giovilabio, an instrument to measure the periods and eclipses of Jupiter's satellites

Word cloud generated in Voyant Tools. From “Explaining Words, in Nature and Science: Textual Analysis in Galileo’s Works” by Caterina Agostini, a blog post for Northeastern University Women Writers Project (22 June 2020)

Working with Galileo – with Digital Formats and Methods

On the left, top: a Galilean giovilabio, an instrument to measure periods and eclipses of Jupiter's satellites.

On the left, bottom: the frontispiece to Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger, Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610). Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

On the right: a word cloud visualization generated in Voyant Tools, from Caterina Agostini's blog post “Explaining Words, in Nature and Science: Textual Analysis in Galileo’s Works”, Northeastern University Women Writers Project (22 June 2020)

Digital Humanities Handouts

Notion at The Harriot Workshop, a video introduction to Notion.so, with video transcript, September 2022

Scalar

Omeka

Palladio for Mapping

Word Vectors and Text Analysis

Humanities and Research Data

Introduction to IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

My research, teaching, and service experience has helped me achieve one of my personal goals as an academic, which is to create a safe space in a culturally diverse campus where ethnic, cultural, religious, and gender differences are respected regardless of personal demographic characteristics.

Open Access Scholarship

Open Access: My Assets in SOAR (Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers)

The Scholarly Open Access at Rutgers (SOAR, https://soar.libraries.rutgers.edu) is a repository to collect, share, and circulate scholarship developed and published by the Rutgers community, through Rutgers Libraries digital collections and a shareable Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The goal is to champion open access scholarship, ranging from books, articles, and websites, to conference presentations and posters.

Open-Access Articles

“Art in the Time of Syphilis: A Digital Humanities Approach toward Considering a Medical Narrative in Benvenuto Cellini’s Autobiography.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Volume 2, Issue 1 (2021), https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.97921c12

Published online on 14 September 2021. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH) is a peer-reviewed, online, open access journal committed to publishing digital humanities research. IDEAH is a Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI; c-ski.ca) journal.

Review of Dario Rodighiero, Mapping Affinities: Democratizing Data Visualization. Geneve, Switzerland: MetisPresses, 2021, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2021), free access, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab096 (8 November 2021). Free-access link in the Rutgers SOAR institutional repository

Published online on 8 November 2021. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH) is an international, peer reviewed journal which publishes original contributions on all aspects of digital scholarship in the Humanities. DSH is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), formerly known as the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, a digital humanities organization founded in London in 1973. The journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities was previously known as Literary and Linguistic Computing.

Book Chapter, peer-reviewed

“Communicating across Cultures: The Case of Primo Levi, Italo Calvino, and Pliny the Elder.” In Translation, Globalization and Translocation: The Classroom and Beyond. Ed. Concepción Godev. New York-Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018: 63-77. Book Chapter, peer-reviewed

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61818-0_4

Translation, Globalization and Translocation: The Classroom and Beyond, in the Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting series

Book DOI: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61818-0

Blog Posts

“The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard.” Invited guest blog post for Mainly Museums (3 August 2021)

URL: https://mainlymuseums.com/post/892/the-collection-of-historical-scientific-instruments-at-harvard

By 18 August 2021, the article had over 6,400 views (Source: Twitter analytics)

"Revealing Data: Ars de statica medicina, 1614." An invited blog post for the "Revealing data" series in the National Library of Medicine blog "Circulating Now" (5 November 2020)

URL: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/11/05/revealing-data-ars-de-statica-medicina-1614

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448904646

"Explaining Words, in Nature and Science: Textual Analysis in Galileo’s Works." This post is part of a series published by Northeastern University with projects from the 2019 Advanced Institute on Text Analysis, on Word Vectors, with support from the Women Writers Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities in July 2019 (22 June 2020)

URL: https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/textual-analysis-galileos-works

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448804646

"Digital Humanities Tools in Online Humanities Classes." A blog post on digital pedagogical tools, for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative (5 June 2020)

URL: https://dh.rutgers.edu/digital-humanities-tools-in-online-humanities-classes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digital-humanities-tools-in-online-humanities-classes

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448704646

Websites

Caterina Agostini (Co-Author, collaborator, and curator); Laura Morreale (Director); Monica Keane (Curator of an exhibition); Christine Kralik (Curator of an exhibition), et al., "Image du monde Challenge Project." Collaborative transcriptions of Image du monde, a medieval treatise by Gossuin (Gautier) du Metz (24 February 2021)

URL: https://imagedumonde.wordpress.com

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/DG4N9

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031634849704646

"A Sourcebook for Health from the Sixteenth Century." A sourcebook on sixteenth-century treatises on syphilis. 1 July 2019. Funded by the Open Knowledge Practicum Fellowship at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia (May 2019)

URL: https://sourcebookmedicalhumanitiesscience.wordpress.com

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448504646

"Santorio's Medical Method." A digital presentation of the early modern physician Santorio Santorio (9 May 2018)

URL: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/science-and-vision/index

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031628448604646

Conference Poster

"Art in the Time of Syphilis." Digital Humanities Conference and Colloquium, 06/07/2019 - 06/08/2019, University of Victoria, British Columbia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7282/00000087

Rutgers permalink: https://scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/permalink/01RUT_INST/1okh1ph/alma991031634849804646

Translating Italian Short Stories

Translation of Luigi Pirandello, "All for the best" (“Tutto per bene”), "The dearly departed" (“La buon’anima”), and "Without malice" (“Senza malizia”) from Stories for a Year (Novelle per un anno) by Luigi Pirandello, in Stories for a Year, eds. Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka, Digital Edition, 2022

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Medieval Padua Painted City

“Medieval Padua Painted City” is my pedagogical project celebrating the 14th-century fresco cycles in my hometown, Padua, Italy when it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, May 2022

I presented this project at the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, in a panel sponsored by TEAMS, Teaching Association for Medieval Studies, and Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance

Here is what I said on Twitter

Cultural Heritage... without Borders

Recently, the beauty of medieval fresco cycles has earned Padua, my hometown, to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in July 2021.

Padua Urbs Picta: 'The Painted City'

Background image:

Giusto de' Menabuoi, A view of Padua in the 1300s, from the Chapel of the Blessed Luca Belludi in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua

I am presenting this research at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI (May 2022, online):

“Digital Cultural Heritage: Medieval Padua Art in the UNESCO World Heritage List” for the panel “Teaching the Middle Ages Using Digital Mapping,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 (online)

Invited Talk, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022

“IIIF for Cultural Heritage,” Winter School on Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 July 2022 (online)

Themes: IIIF, cultural heritage, digital cultural heritage, Digital Humanities, IIIF outreach, underrepresented languages

What is Digital Storytelling? Learning at Europeana

Digital storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to create, tell, and share stories. This is a powerful tool in the cultural heritage sector, as it can help you communicate while you engage with your audiences.

In the Europeana Storytelling Task Force (1 September 2020 - 31 March 2021), I collaborated on the following projects and strategies:

Europeana Network Association, "New Task Force Launches: Europeana as a ‘Powerful Platform for Storytelling’ Task Force: Report and Recommendations" (16 September 2020). License: CC BY-SA
"Europeana as a Powerful Platform for Storytelling" (March 2021)
"Storytelling with Digital Culture Is Booming - Find Out Why" (12 May 2021)
"Explore Fantastic Examples of Storytelling with Digital Culture" (14 May 2021)
"How We Ran a Task Force Entirely Virtually during a Pandemic" (18 May 2021)
"Seven Tips for Digital Storytelling with Cultural Heritage" (31 May 2021)
"Digital Storytelling Festival" (31 May 2021), an online event by Europeana and The Heritage Lab, non-profits in Europe and India that share culture for users, digitally.
2021 Digital Storytelling Festival Contest, "the creative contest bringing people and cultural heritage together"
"Storytelling with Digital Culture" (10 June 2021).

In the Europeana Communicators Community, we discussed examined three case studies of digital storytelling:

“A Picture of Change for a World in Constant Motion” by Jason Farago (The New York Times, 7 August 2020), narrating Hokusai’s woodblock print through Storiiies, a IIIF-based digital tool
#MetKids, a digital resource from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, presenting an interactive map and a digital discovery strategy designed for, with, and by children
‘You are Flora Seville’ from the Egham Museum, on Twitter, made by the Egham Museum (@EghamMuseum) in the UK. Follow the story of Flora Seville in 1887, as she entered the new Royal Holloway College for Women.

The Europeana Storytelling Task Force

Who are we at Europeana? Europeana, the cultural web portal for the European Union, runs projects and task forces through the Europeana Network Association. As an active member of the Europeana Communicators Community, I contributed to developing digital storytelling best practices (2020-2021)

More Resources at Europeana

For an overview of digital storytelling at Europeana, the cultural web portal for the European Union, click here.

Find more resources on:

Digital contents

Open access collections

Everyday objects and images

Nature and environment

Fair use

Diversity and inclusion

Women's History

Social media style guides

Digital tools

Creating timelines with Timeline JS Knight Lab (Northwestern University)

Making animated GIFs

Making digital books online with Book Creator

Creating AR galleries on Spark AR Studio

Voice-over narrations with Narakeet

Making visual stories through infographics with Piktochart

Creating interactive images, presentations, and infographics with Genial.ly

For a list of digital storytelling tools, click here

Literature Review: AI, Ethics, and Pedagogy

Here are some of the books I keep on my desk

AI and Pedagogy

Khan, Salman. 2024. Brave New Words. New York: Penguin.

Moral Standards

Lucas, George. Ethics and Cyber Warfare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017

Stay Tuned

This year, I have been working on:

Teaching a Graduate Seminar with Professor William R. Newman: Survey of History of Science up to 1750: The Experimental Tradition from Pythagoras to Galileo, Indiana University Bloomington
Curating a rare book exhibit: “Making Books Count: Tracing the History of Mathematics through Books,” a showcase of books relevant to the study of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei, at the University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (2024)
Seeing and reviewing the world premiere of a play on Galileo: “Galileo’s Daughter.” Theatre Journal, Volume 76, No. 3 (September): 377–79
Submitting a book proposal with Brill Publishers, A New Translation of Andreas Vesalius’ China Root Epistle (1546). Translator: John B. de C. M. Saunders. Biographical note by Polina Ilieva
Designing a digital edition of Monsignor Germano Straniero's Report (co-authored with Daniela Rovida, “A Monsignor in America: The Straniero Papers at Notre Dame Archives.” Catholic Library World, Volume 95, No. 1, 2024: 19–23, https://www.proquest.com/openview/846b18165b8d31af731db25036a1f681/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2030996)
Tracing back the history of women artists, printers, and intellectuals (co-authored with Daniela Rovida. “Women in Early Modern Italy: Art and Printing,” https://bit.ly/early_modern)
Discussing digital annotations and reading interfaces for the Edison Papers (“Reading Collections in the Edison Papers,” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, Vol. 4, Iss. 3, https://ideah.pubpub.org/pub/c7m4pp6e)

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