About
The Venice Scholar was developed in the context of the Linked Books project led by the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The project’s goal is to index the literature on the history of Venice through citations to both primary and secondary sources.
The Venice Scholar is the first working instance of the Scholar Index. It is the citation index of the literature on the history of Venice, where users can interactively explore publications by following the citations links extracted from a growing database of scholarly literature.
Partners of the Project- Ca’Foscari University Library System and the Humanities Library of Ca' Foscari University, Venice
- Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice (National Library of St Mark)
- Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Venice (State Archive of Venice)
- Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice (Venetian Institute for Sciences, Letters and Arts)
- Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura, Milan (BEIC, European Library of Information and Culture)
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome (ICCU, Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information)
- Giovanni Colavizza, EPFL and Odoma. Project coordination, data processing and machine learning, data analysis
- Matteo Romanello, EPFL. Project coordination, data architecture and processing, database administration
- Vincent Barbay, EPFL and Cybor. Interface development and system administration
- Laurent Bolli, Odoma. Interface design
- Martina Babetto and Silvia Ferronato, EPFL (Venice), Librarian, digitisation
- Saverio Bellomo, Dorit Raines and Mario Infelise (Ca’Foscari University of Venezia)
- Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL)
- Massimo Franceschet (University of Udine)
- The Venice Scholar/Scholar Index was developed thanks to a grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant n. 159961).
- The development of the Venetica section of the Venice Scholar and of the Europeana sidebar was made possible by a Europeana Research Grant.