Nicola Carboni

• Vice-Director, Artl@s
• Co-director, TextEnt

Knowledge representation, data curation, digital humanities, linked data, data analysis, cultural heritage, data infrastructure, and cultural analytics.

Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship

Nicola Carboni is an assistant professor at the iSchool at the University of Illinois. He works at the intersection of knowledge representation and data analysis, using computational methods for modelling, integrating and interpreting historical and cultural data. His current work focuses on spatiotemporal analysis of exhibitions information and on the investigation of temporal variables in literary sources. He previously worked on image globalization, on the semantic exploration of iconographical patterns and on data-driven analysis of Burckhardt’s epistolary corpus. Before joining the University of Illinois, he served as a postdoctoral researcher in digital humanities at the University of Geneva, Digital Humanities Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and Marie Curie Fellow at the National Research Center of France.

Joyeux-Prunel, B., Carboni, N., & Barras, M. (2024). Plotting the Geopolitics of Twentieth-Century Modern and Avant-Garde Illustrated Periodicals. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 9(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.87043

Carboni, N. (2023). The Mediatization of the Early Automobile: A Visual Analysis of the Illustrated Press in the late 19th and Early 20th century. Artl@s Bulletin, 12(1).

Joyeux-Prunel, B., Carboni, N., Jeanrenaud, A., Viaccoz, C., Belina, C., Gauffroy, T., & Barras, M. (2023). Un œil mondial? La mondialisation par l’image au prisme du numérique: Le cas du projet Visual Contagions. Sociétés & Représentations, 75(1), 203–226.

Carboni, N., Federici, A., & Cirnigliaro, G. (2021). Tacita Dean’s Buon Fresco: Developing a digital Atlas on The life of Saint Francis Fresco cycle in the upper Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi. Linguistica e Letteratura, XLVI(1/2), 73–107. https://doi.org/10.19272/202101602004

Carboni, N., & de Luca, L. (2019). An Ontological Approach to the Description of Visual and Iconographical Representations. Heritage, 2(2), 1191–1210. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage2020078

Bruseker, G., Carboni, N., & Guillem, A. (2017). Cultural Heritage Data Management: The Role of Formal Ontology and CIDOC CRM. In Heritage and Archaeology in the Digital Age. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65370-9_6

Carboni, N., & De Luca, L. (2017). Towards a Semantic Documentation of Heritage Objects through Visual and Iconographical Representations. International Information Library Review, 49(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572317.2017.1353374

Carboni, N., & De Luca, L. (2016). Towards a conceptual foundation for documenting tangible and intangible elements of a cultural object. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 3(4), 108–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2016.11.001

Carboni, N., Bruseker, G., Guillem, A., Bellido, D. C., Coughenour, C., Domajnko, M., de Kramer, M., Ramos, M. C., Stathopoulou, E. K., & Suma, R. (2016). Data Provenance in Photogrammetry Through Documentation Protocols. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, III(5), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-III-5-57-2016

Bruseker, G., Guillem, A., & Carboni, N. (2015). Semantically Documenting Virtual Reconstruction: Building a Path to Knowledge Provenance. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, II-5/W3, 33–40. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-5-W3-33-2015

Carboni, N. (2024). "Ontological patterns for modeling art exhibitions." In 18th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Athens, Greece.

Carboni, N. (2024). "Ontological patterns for modeling the validity of spatiotemporal statements." In International Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage, Tours, France.

Carboni, N. (2024). "The structures of visual exchanges." In Reimagining Annotation for Multimodal Cultural Heritage, Rennes, France.

Carboni, N. (2024). "Contextualize heritage 3D objects using semantic annotations: From provenance to interpretation(s)." In Advanced 3D Archaeological Documentation and Linked Open Data, Lund, Sweden.

Carboni, N. (2023). "A computational analysis of image globalization: The impact of images in the periodical press." In Seventh European Congress on World and Global History 2023, Den Haag, Netherlands.

Carboni, N., Joyeux-Prunel, B., & Barras, M. (2023). "A computational analysis of the transmission and impact of images in the periodical press." In College Art Association Conference, New York, United States.

Usel, T., Carboni, N., & Joyeux-Prunel, B. (2023). "Linked open data for horizontal integration of exhibition information." In The Art Museum in the Digital Age, Vienna, Austria.

Carboni, N. (2021). "An ontology for the description of visual heritage." In New Directions in Digital Visual Studies: (en)coding Heritage Seminar Series, TORCH — The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Carboni, N., & Joyeux-Prunel, B. (2022). "Images in global circulation: A multi-scalar approach." In Digital Art History IV, Zagreb, Croatia.

Carboni, N., & Ghelardi, M. (2022). "Textual datification: The case of BurckhardtSource." In Kunstwissenschaftliche Editionen im digitalen Zeitalter workshop - 36th Congress of German Art Historians 2022, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.