Dr. Daniele Fusi

Fields of interest

  • Digital Humanities
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Classical Metrics
  • Digital Lexicography

Daniele is a Digital Humanities scholar mainly focused on digital text, and a professional full-stack software developer with decades of experience in specialized software solutions. He combines these skills with his education in Classics, mainly focused in Greek and Latin language, philology and metrics.

 

  • 1996: Degree in "Lettere classiche" from the Department of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Rome "Sapienza“.
  • 1996-1997: Software developer at the Ministry of Air Defense of Rome (Centro Elaborazione Dati, formerly SEDA).
  • 2001: PhD at the Department of Archeology and Classical Philology of the University of Genoa (Thesis on the computerized analysis of the Greek epic hexameter).
  • 2005: External contract researcher at the University of Sydney for the Accounting for the Ancient Theater project: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek drama, Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects (Chief Investigators prof. P. Wilson and E. Csapo.
  • 2008-today: Individual company for the design and development of software and consultancy in the world of information technology.
  • 2015-2016: Design and development of models and software for harvesting and encoding a textual database from large archives encoded in XML TEI based dialects (Accademia della Crusca).
  • 2019-2021: Fellow Researcher in Digital Textual Scholarship at the Venice University Center for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH).
  • 2021-2022: Professur für Geschichte und Kultur der Spätantike, Bamberg University ("ACO").

2002: Research grant at the University of Rome "Sapienza" for the collection and digital cataloging of epigraphic documents connected to mystery associations, directed by prof. G. Ricciardelli.

2015-2016: 12-month Grant “Promotori Tecnologici per l’Innovazione” ("Technological Promoters for Innovation"), 4th edition, promoted by the Metropolitan City of Rome for the creation of the prototype of a universal conversion and modeling system for paper or digital document archives.

• Appunti sulla prosodia del Lussorio di Shackleton-Bailey: alcune questioni di metodo, in F. Bertini (ed.), Luxoriana, pp.193 313, Genova 2002 (rec. «Maia» 40 (2003) pp.629-630).

• Epigrafia informatica: progetto per un’edizione elettronica di materiale epigrafico, «Seia» n.s. 6-7 (2001-2002) pp.177-210.

• Fra metrica e linguistica: per la contestualizzazione di alcune leggi esametriche, in E. Di Lorenzo (ed.), L'esametro greco e latino: analisi, problemi e prospettive - Atti del convegno di Fisciano 28-29 maggio 2002, pp.33-63.

• Edizione epigrafica digitale di testi greci e latini: dal testo marcato alla banca dati, in A. Ciula, F. Stella (edd.), Digital Philology and Medieval Texts, Pisa 2007, pp.121-163.

• An Expert System for the Classical Languages: Metrical Analysis Components, in Proceedings of the international conference Trends in Computational and Formal Philology - An Italian Overview, Venice and Padua, 22-24 May 2008.

• Aspects of Application of Neural Recognition to Digital Editions, in M. Rehbein, P. Sahle und T. Schaßan (edd.), Kodikologie und Paläologie im Digitalen Zeitalter - Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age, Norderstedt 2009, pp. 201-221.

• Book Informatica per le scienze umane, vol.II (Modelli), Roma (Nuova Cultura) 2011 pp.1-548 (ISBN 978-88-6134-768-7).

• Book Informatica per le scienze umane, vol.I (Elementi), Roma (Nuova Cultura) 2011 pp.1-316 (ISBN 978-88-6134-767-0).

• Edizione digitale degli Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae, in A. Rigo, A. Babuin, M. Trizio (edd.), Atti del Congresso “Vie per Bisanzio”, 25-28/11/2009, Venezia (Italy) – Università Ca’ Foscari: VII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini.

• A Multilanguage, Modular Framework for Metrical Analysis: IT Patterns and Theorical Issues, «Langages» 199 (2015) 41-66 (monographic issue: Traitement automatique des textes versifiés: problématiques et pratiques).

• Manuale Cremonese Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Bologna (Zanichelli) 2015: chapter 37, Tecnologia .NET e linguaggio C#, pp.1511-1599: .NET, C#, threading, database, Entity Framework, LINQ, sockets, ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI, WPF, etc. with the corresponding sample code.

• Edizione digitale del Tommaseo-Bellini, in L'italiano elettronico: vocabolari, corpora, archivi testuali e sonori, Atti del Convegno La piazza delle lingue, a c. di Claudio Marazzini e Ludovica Maconi, Firenze 6-8 novembre 2014, Florence 2016.

• Book Tecnologie informatiche per l’umanista digitale, Roma (Nuova Cultura) 2017 pp.1 316 (ISBN 978-88-6812-932-3)

• Revision of the Greek and Latin parts of the etymologies and the appendix on the Latin and Greek phrases of the Zingarelli dictionary 2019.

• Sailing for a Second Navigation: Paradigms in Producing Digital Content, «SemRom» ns 7 (2018) 213-276.

• Recovering Legacy in the Digital World: Tales and Tools, "Rationes Rerum" 12 (2018) 203-262.

• 2019-today public open source code repositories at github.com/vedph.

• Text Searching Beyond the Text: a Case Study, «Rationes Rerum» 15 (2020) 199-230.

• Introducing Chiron, a Full-Stack Framework for Metrical Analysis: Part 1 - Data Collection, «RCCM» 63, 1 (2021) 53-85.

• Introducing Chiron, a Full-Stack Framework for Metrical Analysis: Part 2 - Data Interpretation, «RCCM» 63, 2 (2021) 407-431.

• Digitalizzazione e marcatura XML degli atti, in R. Gualdo (ed.), Atti chiari. Chiarezza e concisione nella scrittura forense ("Atti Chiari. Chiarezza e concisione nella scrittura forense", Viterbo 20 maggio 2021), 59-73.

• L. Clemenzi, F. Fusco, D. Fusi, G. Lombardi, Analisi linguistica e pseudonimizzazione: strumenti e paradigmi in Fabio Ciracì, Giulia Miglietta, Carola Gatto (edd.), AIUCD 2022 - Culture digitali. Intersezioni: filosofia, arti, media. Preceedings della 11a conferenza nazionale, Lecce, 2022. Fabio Ciracì, Giulia Miglietta, Carola Gatto (edd.), AIUCD 2022 - Digital cultures. Intersections: philosophy, arts, media. Preceedings of the 11th national conference, Lecce, 2022.