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Andrea Nanetti is a Professor of Digital Humanities and the Founding Director of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Bookish and Experimental Research (LIBER) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU).[1][2] As a member of the Digital Humanities Research Cluster at NTU, Nanetti’s main research project Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) demonstrates his interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary practice for managing heritage data,[3][4] drawing “attention to the necessity of aligning cultural heritage with AI and machine learning”.[5][6]

Education and Career

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Nanetti received his education in historical sciences in Italy, France, Germany, Greece, and the United States.[7] He completed his PhD at the University of Bologna.[8] Before his tenure at NTU, he taught at several colleges, including the University of Bologna,[9] Ca' Foscari University of Venice, College Year of Athens,[10] and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[11] He is also the Founding Co-Director (International Relations) of the International Research Centre for Architectural Heritage Conservation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Founding Member of the Board of Directors at the Maniatakeion Foundation.[12] He has been an academic member at the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Arts and Letters and completed his fellowship (2022-2023) at Dumbarton Oaks (Trustees for Harvard University).[1][7]

When Nanetti was a visiting research fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University (2007-2008),[13] he theorised and founded EHM, intending to apply computational methodologies to visualise historical knowledge.[12][4] Nanetti works with an international team of specialists, from historians to computer scientists, to extract and parse traditional scholarships into machine-readable formats for further analysis and investigation.[14]

For over 30 years, Nanetti has been involved in multi-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research.[12] Since 1996, he has led several digital humanities projects and published 20 multilingual books (13 single-authored) and over 80 essays.[15] In October 2024, Nanetti was appointed the Founding President of the Commission for Computational Technology and History, a member organisation under the International Committee of Historical Sciences.

Honours

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Nanetti has been awarded numerous recognition and honours, including the Research Excellence Award (Outstanding Research on Venetian Maritime Heritage Accomplished Over the Last 20 Years) issued by the University of Florence and ICOMOS-UNESCO in 2014,[16] the Honorary citizenship of the Municipality of Pylos-Nestoras (Greece) for his promotion of the regional cultural heritage (2015),[17] the 2021 GLAMi Award for EHM for which Nanetti was the founding editor-in-chief,[18] and the nomination for UNESCO "Jikji Memory of the World" by the Italian National Commission in 2022.[19][20] In 2024, Nanetti was awarded the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize by the Medieval Academy of America for the interactive web application he designed and implemented on EHM - Fra Mauro's Map of the World.[21]

Apart from the above, Nanetti is also a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and public lectures and editor for scholarly journals invited by international cultural and educational institutions.

Selected Bibliography

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Sole-Authored Books

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  • Computational Engineering of Historical Memories: With a Showcase on Afro-Eurasia (ca 1100-1500 CE) (London: Routledge, 2022)
  • Venezia e il Peloponneso (992-1718) [Venice and the Peloponnese, 992-1718] (Venice: Ca’ Foscari University Press, 2021)
  • At the origins of the Venetian Sea State. Coron and Modon, 1204-1209 (Athens: Institute for Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, 2018)
  • Atlas of Venetian Messenia. Coron, Modon, Pylos and their islands. (Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2011)
  • Il Codice Morosini. Il mondo visto da Venezia (1094-1433). 4 vols. (Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 2010)

Co-Authored and Co-Edited Books

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  • Venezia and Suzhou - Water Cities along the Silk Roads [Catalogue of the Exhibition] (Venice: Ca’ Foscari University Press, 2022) [Italian, Mandarin, and English] – Co-edited with Angelo Maggi
  • Heritage Buildings Conservation. Methods and Techniques. (Padova: Libreria Universitaria, 2017) – Co-edited with Adriana Rossi
  • Viabilità e Insediamenti nell'Assetto Territoriale di Imola nel Medioevo: Sperimentazione Esemplare di Mappatura e Visualizzazione del Dato Storico [Roads and Settlements in the Territory of Medieval Imola: A Case Study for Historical Data Mapping and Visualization] (Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2014) – Co-authored with Mario Giberti

Academic Articles

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  • “Waterways Connecting the Peoples of the World. A presentation of the EHM application for Fra Mauro’s mappa mundi as a virtual laboratory to investigate the Maritime Silk Road discourse in the digital time machine,” Proceedings of the International conference “Venice and the sense of the sea. Perceptions and portrayals” (Italy, Venice, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 28-29 November 2019), 161-250, edited by M. Aymard and E. Orlando. (Venice: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, 2022)
  • “A Sad Story of Poor Living. The Monastic Community of Mount Sinai under Weak Venetian and Manipulative Papal Rules of Law (1211-1276),” Studi Veneziani, 83 (2021)
  • “Engineering Historical Memory and the Interactive Exploration of Archival Documents. The Online Application for Pope Gregory X’s Privilege for the Community of Mount Sinai (1274) as a Prototype,” Umanistica Digitale, 10 (2021), 325-357 – Co-authored with Davide Benvenuti
  • “Crafting the next generation of web-based learning tools for manuscript artefacts. A focus on science, technology, and engineering codices, world maps, and archival documents in exhibition settings,” SCIRES-IT (SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology), 11(1), 97-114 – Co-authored with Zaqeer Radzi and Davide Benvenuti
  • “Defining Heritage Science. A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experience through Historical Method, AI and ML,” Complexity, vol. 2021, special issue on Tales of Two Societies: On the Complexity of the Coevolution between the Physical Space and the Cyber Space.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Andrea Nanetti". The Venetian Institute of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  2. ^ "Singapore: Launch of Liber@ADML at NTU Library, featuring a robot". LibraryLearningSpace. 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  3. ^ "Andrea Nanetti". NTU Digital Humanities Research Cluster. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  4. ^ a b Stanley-Baker, Michael (2018-11-30). "Digital Humanities at NTU". Constellations. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  5. ^ Nowotny, Helga (2021). In AI we trust : power, illusion and control of predictive algorithms. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-5095-4881-1. OCLC 1237252446.
  6. ^ "Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities". eadh.org. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  7. ^ a b "Andrea Nanetti". Dumbarton Oaks. 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  8. ^ "INVITATION". Maniatakeion Foundation. 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  9. ^ "Presentation Of Scholarly Book On Venetian Sources About Koroni And Methoni". Maniatakeion Foundation. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  10. ^ Tsolakidou, Stella (2012-03-09). "Greece and Italy Join Forces to Study Marine Antiquities". Greek Reporter. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  11. ^ "2013夏季学期课程目录". Shanghai Jiaotong University. 2013-04-09. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  12. ^ a b c "Engineering Historical Memory (EHM). Theories and Practices (2007-today)". The Central European University. 2020. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  13. ^ "Andrea Nanetti". Princeton University. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  14. ^ Cui, Winnie (2016-01-29). "Bringing together history and data science with Microsoft Azure". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  15. ^ "Andrea Nanetti". University of Salerno. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  16. ^ "2014 Awards Recognition". NTU Singapore. 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  17. ^ "Ανακήρυξη σε Επίτιμο Δημότη Πύλου-Νέστορος του Καθηγητή Andrea Nanetti". Εύφορη Γη (in Greek). 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  18. ^ "GLAMi Award Finalists". MuseWeb. 2021. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  19. ^ "Ο Καθηγητής Andrea Nanetti υποψήφιος από την Ιταλική Εθνική Επιτροπή για την UNESCO για το Βραβείο "Jikji Memory of the World"". Manitakeion Foundation. 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  20. ^ "Ecco la candidatura presentata dalla Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO per la IX Edizione del Premio UNESCO "Jikji Memory of the World"". UNESCO. 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  21. ^ Chris (2024-01-16). "2024 Medieval Academy of America Publication Prizes". The Medieval Academy Blog. Retrieved 2024-06-06.
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