Papers by Nicolò Pratelli
Scientific Data volume 11, 2024
The United Nations forecast a significant shift in global population distribution by 2050, with r... more The United Nations forecast a significant shift in global population distribution by 2050, with rural populations projected to decline. This decline will particularly challenge mountain areas' cultural heritage, well-being, and economic sustainability. Understanding the economic, environmental, and societal effects of rural population decline is particularly important in Europe, where mountainous regions are vital for supplying goods. The present paper describes a geospatially explicit semantic knowledge graph containing information on 454 European mountain value chains. It is the first largesize, structured collection of information on mountain value chains. Our graph, structured through ontology-based semantic modelling, offers representations of the value chains in the form of narratives. The graph was constructed semi-automatically from unstructured data provided by mountain-area expert scholars. It is accessible through a public repository and explorable through interactive Story Maps and a semantic Web service. Through semantic queries, we demonstrate that the graph allows for exploring territorial complexities and discovering new knowledge on mountain areas' environmental, societal, territory, and economic aspects that could help stem depopulation.
Sommario La società contemporanea è continuamente scossa dal problema delle fake news e della pos... more Sommario La società contemporanea è continuamente scossa dal problema delle fake news e della post-verità. Questa relazione cerca di analizzare lo stato delle cose e proporre un'idea che affronti e tenti di risolvere il problema. La soluzione proposta non è delineata totalmente, ma è presentata con le sua fondamenta di pensiero. Si parte dal presupposto che ognuno deve mettersi in gioco e collaborare con gli altri per costruire insieme un nuovo modo di fare e assorbire informazioni. Il sistema è basato sul concetto di comunità che collaborano alla realizzazione di narrative, appoggiandosi a una piattaforma che è capace di mettere in contatto e fornire gli strumenti necessari.
Articles by Nicolò Pratelli
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2021
Hypermedia Dante Network (HDN) is a 3-year Italian National Research Project, started in 2020, wh... more Hypermedia Dante Network (HDN) is a 3-year Italian National Research Project, started in 2020, which aims to enrich the functionalities of the DanteSources Digital Library to efficiently represent knowledge about the primary sources of Dante's Comedy. DanteSources allows users to retrieve and visualize the list and the distribution of Dante's primary sources that have been identified by recent commentaries of five of Dante's minor works (i.e. Vita nova, De vulgari eloquentia, Convivio, De Monarchia, and Rime). The digital library is based on a formal ontology expressed in Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS) language. Based on the DanteSources experience, the HDN project aims to formally represent the primary sources of the Divine Comedy whose identification is based on several commentaries included in the Dartmouth Dante Project corpus. To reach this goal, we restructured and extended the DanteSources ontology to provide a wider and more complete representation of the knowledge concerning the primary sources of the Comedy. In this article, we present the result of this effort, i.e. the HDN ontology. The ontology is expressed in OWL and has as reference ontologies the CIDOC CRM and its extension FRBRoo, including its in-progress reformulation LRMoo. We also briefly describe the semi-automatic tool that will be used by the scholars to populate the ontology.
AIUCD 2021 - DHs for society: e-quality, participation, rights and values in the Digital Age. Book of extended abstracts of the 10th national conference, 2021
AIUCD 2021 -DH per la società: e-guaglianza, partecipazione, diritti e valori nell'era digitale.
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Papers by Nicolò Pratelli
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