Alessandro LARUFFA

Position
Adjunct Professor
E-mail
alessandro.laruffa@unive.it
Website
www.unive.it/people/alessandro.laruffa (personal record)

I am an Adjunct Professor of Digital History at Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the Master's degree programme in Digital and Public Humanities. My focus are contemporary history, especially the history of historiography, and digital tools for the humanities. I hold a joint PhD from Sapienza University of Rome and KU Leuven, where I provided teaching assistance for the Master of European Studies program. From 2017 to 2019, I collaborated with the "Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea" of the Italian National Research Council. In 2020, I was appointed as Research Assistant at the "Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporanea".
I have published on various topics, including European history, European integration history, history of historiography, digital history, and public history. During my career, I have been the scientific coordinator of two public history projects in Rome, which were awarded second place at the Poster Session of the Italian National Conference on Public History.
My interests include exploring the intersections between the humanities and the digital. I have developed expertise in semantic web, metadata according to international standards, georeferencing, ontologies, network analysis, and linked open data. I participated in developing a plugin to connect different open-source software and combine geographic data with digital objects, under the supervision of the Laboratory of Digital Humanities at the University of Cagliari. I am a member of the European Association for Digital Humanities and the KU Leuven Digilab. Currently, I collaborate with private and public entities to integrate open data, ontologies, metadata, and data visualisation to create advanced solutions in the context of digital humanities.