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Dr. Bruno Sartini Co-Organizes SEMDH2025 Workshop
12 Jun 2025
Dr. Bruno Sartini co-organized SEMDH2025 at ESWC in Slovenia, presenting research on Italian ads using Linked Open Data and iconographical analysis.
Dr. Bruno Sartini, Akademischer Rat at the Institute of Digital Cultural Heritage, co-organized the Semantic Digital Humanities Workshop 2025 (SEMDH2025), held with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2025) in Portorož, Slovenia. The workshop brought together around 40 scholars working at the intersection of digital humanities and semantic web technologies, with sessions focusing on knowledge representation, data modeling, and computational methods in cultural research.
As part of the program, Dr. Sartini presented his paper, "Exploring and Visualizing Italian Advertising Fliers and Posters through an Iconographical Lens with Linked Open Data." The study leverages the IICONGRAPH knowledge graph, which enriches iconographical and iconological layers of the ArCo ontology, to analyze 20th-century Italian fliers and posters.
Through a combination of SPARQL queries, visual analytics, and statistical methods, the paper validates findings from prior qualitative research. It traces thematic trends over time, examines gender representation in visual advertising, and explores associations between depicted elements and promotional messages. The work demonstrates how Linked Open Data can bridge humanistic interpretation with empirical insight in cultural heritage research.
More information is available at semdh.github.io.
