Alessia Spadi

Alessia Spadi is a Level III Researcher at the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano Institute of the National Research Council of Italy (OVI-CNR). She works within the PNRR project H2IOSC (Humanities and Heritage Italian Open Science Cloud) in Work Package 2, “Landscaping & Building Communities”, Activity 2.3, “Landscaping the Digital Arts and Humanities Resources and Needs Panorama”. From June 2022 to September 2023, she held a research collaboration grant within the DARIAH-ERIC (FOE) programme, based at OVI-CNR. In this role, she served as Chief Integration Officer for the Italian node of the DARIAH research infrastructure, focusing on the development of digital tools for the humanities and on strategies for data integration and visualisation. Her work mainly concerned the management of heterogeneous data from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), with the aim of ensuring the reusability of scholarly materials, interoperability, preservation, accessibility, and data integration, in accordance with the FAIR principles and open science. Previously, between June 2020 and May 2022, she was awarded a research grant for the RESTORE project (smaRt access To digital heritage and memory), within the advanced training programme CNR4C, co-funded by the Tuscany Region. In this context, she was responsible for the front-end development of a technological platform for the integrated management and use of data. She actively contributed to building an accessible and reusable knowledge base in line with FAIR principles, as well as to implementing technological solutions to improve the visibility and accessibility of documentary heritage and to enhance data interoperability through semantic web technologies. She studied at the University of Pisa, where in 2020 she completed a five-year degree in digital humanities with a specialisation in knowledge management, defending a thesis entitled Contribution to the Software Development of the Vocabolario Dantesco Latino (VDL): An Application for the Lexicographic Investigation of Dante’s Latin. As part of this work, she developed an application to support lexicographic research on Dante’s Latin, drawing on her expertise in digital technologies for cultural heritage and the humanities.

CV updated on 2025-09-17.