This is Giulia, a D-Real-funded PhD candidate based at the University College Dublin, School of Information and Communication Studies.
Ph.D. Research
Area & Topics
I am researching the ‘ethical requirements’ for documentation that accompanies digitised cultural heritage collections as data, in relation to their reuse through Artificial Intelligence systems.
Core Topics
Artificial Intelligence + Critical Data Studies
Cultural Heritage / Digital Preservation
About me
In 2014 I obtained my MSc in Quaternary, Prehistory, and Archaeology at the University of Ferrara (Italy); the same year I got involved in the excavation at the Terramara of Pilastri, where I had the opportunity to work there as a Digital and Community Archaeologist until 2020. After spending a year researching digital humanities at the Cyprus University of Technology, I moved to Ireland after winning the Ph.D. position I currently hold.
ICTs
Visual design and data science are among my best assets, now expanding toward more specific applications.
Archaeology
Yes! I am an experienced digital and community archaeologist – my original research area.
Plants
I grew up in a garden, so my interest in archaeobotany and plant biology and evolution came… naturally.
Last Activities
POSTER
More than Meets the (Artificial) Eye: Exploring Historical Photographs from Ireland with Computer Vision Methods
— DH 2023 \ Collaboration as an Opportunity. July 10-14 2023, Graz, Austria. https://zenodo.org/records/7961822
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION + PAPER
“That’s not Damning with Faint Praise”: Understanding the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Preservation Tasks
— iConference 2023 \ Normality, Virtuality, Inclusivity, Physicality. March 27-29 2023, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28035-1_18
CO-AUTHORED PAPER
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise
— Journal of Documentation, 22 October 2022 https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2022-0170
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
A Welcome to the Machine? Archival Access and Content Retrieval in the Context of Artificial Intelligence
— IRF Final International Conference: Digital Archives, Big Data and Memory. 24-26 August 2022, Aalborg University, Copenhagen.
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
