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1 February 2024 - Starting position as Coordinator of the Scientific Board of PhD programme Technology for Culture
26 January 2024 - Seminar at Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Interactive-Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing
21 November 2023 - MAHS Special Seminar at Kyoto University
Interoperable Database and Virtual Reality for Archaeological Investigations and Storytelling
17 November 2023 - RIDC Seminar at Okayama University
Interactive-Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI
September 2023 - Book, with Antonio Pizzo and Rossana Damiano has been published.
Interactive-Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI.
20% discount (valid through December 2023): code ESA32.
Taking a cross-media approach to the ever-changing field of digital storytelling, this book offers an essential introduction to producing and editing interactive storytelling content, and to the platforms that host it. Interactive Storytelling is recommended reading for professionals as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of interactive entertainment, multimedia design and production, and digital journalism.
1 March 2023 - Sabbatical year is over.
It was a great time, both in Japan (April to July 2022) and California (September 2022 to February 2023). Working on Archaeological Semantic Database of the BeArchaeo project and Interactive storytelling book (English version, coming out in 2023, publisher Routledge), with companion software Storygraphia.
7 Oct 2022 At the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, opening of the exhibition Izumo-Kibi, which hosts some results of the BeArchaeo project.
Here is Trailer of the BeA-ViR system, hosted in the exhibition!
More images on my Facebook page.
8 Jul 2021 - Sabbatical year from 1 Mar 2022 to 28 Feb 2023.
Probably spent in Japan, to complete WP4 in project BeArchaeo in spring-summer 2022, and in Santa Cruz, California, in autumn/winter 2022/23. Check this page!
10 Jun 2020 - VEP Webdoc becomes permanent
VEP Webdoc, which tells the results of the European project "Virtual Electronic Poem", has been selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to the Performing Arts Web Archive.
Extract from email:
"The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to the Performing Arts Web Archive. We consider your website to be an important part of this collection and the historical record.
The Library of Congress preserves important cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites. Our web archives are important because they contribute to the historical record, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper."
About the program(extract):
The Library of Congress Web Archive manages, preserves, and provides access to archived web content selected by subject experts from across the Library, so that it will be available for researchers today and in the future. Websites are ephemeral and often considered at-risk born-digital content. New websites form constantly, URLs change, content changes, and websites sometimes disappear entirely. Websites document current events, organizations, public reactions, government information, and cultural and scholarly information on a wide variety of topics. Materials that used to appear in print are increasingly published online.
20 Mar 2020 - Last published paper Ontology-driven representation of knowledge for geological maps, with Alizia Mantovani and Fabrizio Piana.