Proficient
XML, RDF, Data Mapping, Reference Management, Metadata, Ontologies, Creation of multimedia resources, Data Management, Team working, Open Data
Average
Wordpress, Linux, Wireframing, Sketching, GANTT & Project Planning, Windows
Basic
CSS, HTML, Photoshop, Database
General Knowledge
Project management, Maps & Context, MS Office, Presentation, Public speaking, Social networks
Italian
Mother tongue
English
Proficient
French
Advanced
Experience
Postdoc & Lecturer @ University of Geneve - Digital Humanities
01/02/2021 — Present
Research over the circulation of artworks across time and space.
Using ontologies to integrate visual similarities in knowledge graph.
Analysis of the constituents of the concept of style and how it is built and develop.
Teaching "Knowledge Representation" and for Humanities and Bias in Digital Collection.
Research Fellow @ University of Zurich - Institute of Art History // SARI project
01/07/2018 — 31/12/2020
Solution engineering of a graph application for the integration, creation, exchange and layering of diverse distributed reference resources. Creation of framework for identity disambugiation.
Matching of complex ontological patterns, data transformation and modelling of art historical and scholarly data.
Digital Humanities Fellow @ Harvard University - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
01/02/2018 — 30/06/2018
Semiotic and philosophical analysis of the classification of an entity in the perceptual process. Examination, re-modelling and integration with other datasets of the Photographal Archive resources.
Re-composition and modelling of the data about the correspondance of Jacob Burckhardt. Documentation of and sharing ontological patterns for the description of heritage resource.
Marie Curie Fellow @ CNRS - MAP-Gasmau Lab
01/06/2014 — 31/05/2017
Create a framework for the description of tangible and intangible cultural objects. Develop an ontology for adding information about the symbolic meaning of cultural objects and phenomena.
Define a data model for recording provenance information for 3D Objects. Responsible for the alignment and implementation of diverse SKOS vocabularies.
Data Curation and Modeling @ Informatica Trentina - Open Data Project
01/11/2013 — 31/05/2014
Development a bottom-up ontology for describing public data. Data cleaning, refinment mapping and enrichment
In charge, from a technical standpoint, of the release of the data. Responsible for developing guidelines for the providers.
Coordinating the information architecture of of the catalog & collaborating in the EU FP7 Fusepool project.
Education
PhD @ National Technical University of Athens
Rural and Surveying Engineering - Department of Topography
06/2014 - 07/2020
Creating a semantic framework for recording, enriching and retrieving descriptive and contextual elements in visual items.
International EU MA in Digital Library Learning @ DILL Consortium
Oslo and Akershus University College - University of Parma - Tallinn University
08/2011 - 09/2013
Development of several competencies regarding the management, the analysis, the UX, and the preservation of of digital resources.
Focus on data (RDF, SKOS, ontologies, metadata, thesauri), management (project planning) and users (usability study, user experience).
Bachelor Degree in Cultural Heritage @ University of Pisa
Information Science Curriculum
10/2007 - 09/2010
Emphasis on both Humanities (literature, art, history, philology, linguistic) and library subject (textual bibliography, print history, information science).
Short Bio
Nicola Carboni is a Lecturer at the University of Geneva, where he teaches Digital Images, Data Curation and Knowledge Graphs. Previously Fellow at the Swiss Art Research Infrastructure - University of Zurich and Digital Humanities Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He completed his PhD on the topic of Visual Heritage and Knowledge Graph at NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) and CNRS (National Research Center of France), where he was also previously appointed Marie Curie Fellow. He works on the intersection between knowledge graphs, big visual data and cultural interpretation.