@ARTICLE{BANDINI_2026_ARTICLE_BJPV_571381, AUTHOR = {Bandini, M. and Jama Musse, J. and Piccini, S. and Vilela Ruiz, G. E.}, TITLE = {The Language of Things: Agricultural, Culinary, and Musical Terms in Ugo Ferrandi’s (1851–1933) Somali Notebooks}, YEAR = {2026}, ABSTRACT = {This article offers a linguistic and ethnographic analysis of a set of indigenous terms recorded by the Italian explorer Ugo Ferrandi (1851-1933) during his two-year stay in the town of Lugh (Luuq), southern Somalia, where he served as commander of an Italian outpost during the second Bottego expedition (1895–1897). The study specifically focuses on terms related to agriculture, cooking, and music—three core domains of material culture. Despite limitations posed by the absence of a standardised orthography and Ferrandi’s lack of formal training in local languages, his notebooks provide rare lexical insights into pre-standard Somali and the multilingual environment of the Jubba region, where Somali (including the Maay variety), Oromo, Swahili, and other languages coexisted. Drawing on philological analysis, early bilingual dictionaries, contemporaneous travel accounts, and oral testimonies collected in Somalia during the 1980s, the study addresses issues of dialectal variation, orthographic practices, and semantic shifts. These findings contribute to a broader project aimed at developing a glossary of pre-standard Somali terminology, intended as a resource for linguists, anthropologists, and scholars of African material culture, and to facilitate the recovery and dissemination of this important yet understudied primary source}, KEYWORDS = {Ugo Ferrandi, Somali Language, Italian colonialism, Agricultural terminology, Culinary terminology, Musical terminology}, PAGES = {63-109}, VOLUME = {22}, JOURNAL = {ETHNORÊMA}, } @ARTICLE{BANDINI_2025_ARTICLE_BQ_557403, AUTHOR = {Bandini, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {A Systematic Literature Review on the Representation of Texts as Linguistic Linked Open Data}, YEAR = {2025}, ABSTRACT = {Despite the growing interest in publishing linguistic data as Linked Open Data (LOD), the representation of ancient language corpora within the Semantic Web remains challenging. While LOD principles have been successfully applied to linguistic resources such as dictionaries, lexicons, and terminologies, their use for textual corpora — particularly those related to ancient languages — is still limited. Through a systematic literature review, we investigate how textual data has been represented as Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD), evaluating the potential and limitations of existing approaches and methodologies for enhancing data integration and interoperability in the Digital Humanities. This systematic literature review follows a rigorous methodology encompassing literature identification, screening for inclusion, and quality assessment. By classifying and analysing relevant studies, we provide a comprehensive overview of current practices and offer insights into their benefits and limitations}, KEYWORDS = {Ancient languages, Ancient texts, DigitAnt, Linguistic Linked Open Data, Semantic Web, Systematic literature review}, PAGES = {289-315}, URL = {http://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/21195}, VOLUME = {2025 (20)}, DOI = {10.6092/issn.2532-8816/21195}, ISSN = {2532-8816}, JOURNAL = {UMANISTICA DIGITALE}, } @ARTICLE{MALLIA_2024_ARTICLE_MBQ_459320, AUTHOR = {Mallia, M. and Bandini, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {An interface for linking ancient languages}, YEAR = {2024}, ABSTRACT = {The paper focuses on the linking potentials offered by the EpiLexO web-based front-end for the creation and editing of an ecosystem of digital resources for ancient languages, developed in the context of a project on the languages of fragmentary attestation of ancient Italy. The focus is particularly on mechanisms introduced for linking lexical information to other information bits either internally or externally, e. g. for creating attestations by linking lexical forms to their variants in relevant inscriptions, as well as for linking lexical data to external independent LOD datasets available on a remote endpoint. Finally, in the conclusions, we briefly introduce some future planned or desired enhancements as well as the final platform component, a parallel interface that constitutes the fruition application, which will be open to anyone on the web and willallow for browsing, searching, cross-querying and visualising the created set of interlinked resources}, KEYWORDS = {eLexicography, Ancient languages, Linguistic Linked Open Data, Digital historical linguistics}, PAGES = {175-190}, URL = {https://sciendo.com/it/article/10.2478/cait-2024-0042}, VOLUME = {2024 (4)}, DOI = {10.2478/cait-2024-0042}, ISSN = {1314-4081}, JOURNAL = {CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES}, } @ARTICLE{MANTOVANI_2024_ARTICLE_MPKGCSMCRABMB_514338, AUTHOR = {Mantovani, S. and Pintus, A. and Kovtun, A. and Gondolini, A. and Casadio, S. and Sanson, A. and Marforio, T. D. and Calvaresi, M. and Rancan, M. and Armelao, L. and Bertuzzi, G. and Melucci, M. and Bandini, M.}, TITLE = {Graphene Oxide-Arginine Composites: Efficient Dual Function Materials for Integrated CO2 Capture and Conversion}, YEAR = {2024}, ABSTRACT = {The "on-demand" capture and utilization of CO2 is effectively realized with a readily accessible dual function organic composite. The covalent and controlled derivatization of graphene oxide (GO) surface with naturally occurring arginine led to a "smart" material capable of capturing (chemisorption) CO2 from high-purity flue-gas as well as low-concentration streams (i.  e. direct air capture) and concomitant chemical activation toward the incorporation into cyclic carbonates. The overall integrated CO2 capture and conversion (ICCC) strategy has been fully elucidated mechanistically via dedicated computational, spectroscopic and thermal analyses}, KEYWORDS = {Carbon dioxide, Carbon-capture-conversion, Computational study, Graphene oxide, Spectroscopic investigation}, URL = {https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/514338}, VOLUME = {17 (5)}, DOI = {10.1002/cssc.202301673}, ISSN = {1864-564X}, JOURNAL = {CHEMSUSCHEM}, } @INPROCEEDINGS{BANDINI_2024_INPROCEEDINGS_BQ_526227, AUTHOR = {Bandini, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {Representing texts as LOD: a Systematic Literature Review}, YEAR = {2024}, ABSTRACT = {Despite the growing interest in publishing linguistic data as Linked Open Data, the publishing of ancient language corpora for the Semantic Web is still challenging. This contribution describes a systematic literature review on the representation of corpus data as Linguistic Linked Open Data, focusing especially on models and (data) granularity. Our goal is to gain insights into the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches. Here we present our systematic review methodology and some initial results}, KEYWORDS = {Linked Open Data, Text corpora, ancient languages, systematic literature review}, PAGES = {455-461}, URL = {https://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/7927/}, ISBN = {978-88-942535-8-0}, CONFERENCE_NAME = {Me. Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti. XIII Convegno Annuale AIUCD2024}, BOOKTITLE = {Me. Te. Digitali. Mediterraneo in rete tra testi e contesti, Proceedings del XIII Convegno Annuale AIUCD2024}, } @INPROCEEDINGS{MALLIA_2024_INPROCEEDINGS_MBBMPRTZZQ_479261, AUTHOR = {Mallia, M. and Bandini, M. and Bellandi, A. and Murano, F. and Piccini, S. and Rigobianco, L. and Tommasi, A. and Zavattari, C. and Zinzi, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {DigItAnt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources}, YEAR = {2024}, ABSTRACT = {Over the past few years, the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies has witnessed significant advancements across a myriad of sectors, linguistics included. This progression is characterized by an exponential increase in the conversion of resources to adhere to contemporary encoding standards. Such transformations are driven by the objectives outlined in “ecological” methodologies, notably the FAIR data principles, which advocate for the reuse and interoperability of resources. This paper presents the DigItAnt architecture, developed in the context of a national project funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and in the service of a recently started Italian endeavor to realize a federation of infrastructures for the humanities. It details its services, utilities and data types, and shows how it manages to produce, exploit and interlink LLOD and non-LLOD datasets in ways that are meaningful to its intended target disciplinary context, i. e. historical linguistics over epigraphy data. The paper also introduces how DigItAnt services and functionalities will contribute to the empowerment of the H2IOSC Italian infrastructures cluster project, which is devoted to the construction of a nationwide research infrastructure federation for the humanities, and it will possibly contribute to its pilot project towards an authoritative LLOD platform}, KEYWORDS = {Linguisti Linked Open Data, Ancient Languages, Digital Historical Linguistics, Language Technology for Digital Humanities}, PAGES = {55-65}, URL = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.ldl-1.8/}, PUBLISHER = {ELRA (Paris)}, ISBN = {978-2-493814-38-8}, CONFERENCE_NAME = {9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics}, CONFERENCE_PLACE = {Paris}, BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics}, } @MISC{MALLIA_2024_MISC_MBBMPRTZZQ_479301, AUTHOR = {Mallia, M. and Bandini, M. and Bellandi, A. and Murano, F. and Piccini, S. and Rigobianco, L. and Tommasi, A. and Zavattari, C. and Zinzi, M. and Quochi, V.}, TITLE = {DigItAnt. A platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources}, YEAR = {2024}, ABSTRACT = {Poster presented at the LDL 2024 Workshop, Torino, 25/05/2024}, KEYWORDS = {Linguisti Linked Open Data, Ancient Languages, Digital Historical Linguistics, Language Technology for Digital Humanities}, URL = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11384067}, DOI = {10.5281/zenodo.11384066}, } @ARTICLE{NAHLI_2022_ARTICLE_NSBB_446539, AUTHOR = {Nahli, O. and Sanna, A. and Bandini, M. and Boschetti, F.}, TITLE = {Commerce Numérique: traffic signals for the crossroads between cultures}, YEAR = {2022}, ABSTRACT = {Commerce is a literary French journal founded by Princess Margherita Caetani, involving three prestigious collaborators: Paul Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue, Valéry Larbaud. It is composed by 29 volumes published between 1924 and 1932. Each volume collects different literary material of various well-known and unknown writers as poems or novels, translating some of the most important authors like Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Pirandello, Ungaretti, Saint-John Perse, Rilke, Hofmannsthal. Considering the historical, literary, and cultural importance of the Commerce journal, our project "Commerce numérique" aims to digitize and to make the journal contents freely available online to both the general public and the research community. This article presents how the journal was encoded. Also, we give importance to the coding of poems present in Commerce. Indeed, some poems are original in another language and they are accompanied by their French translation. Other poems are a French-translated form without original text. In order to fully and accurately express the phenomena and their structures, we have adopted some aspects of the TEI framework, which we will explain in detail. Particular attention was paid to the French translation of a Moroccan Arabic poem from the 13th century. On the one hand, the original Arabic poetry is interesting because it presents some aspects of the Moroccan dialect and some aspects of the oral text. On the other hand, the study and the encoding of Arabic poetry in parallel to its translation highlight some important structural differences between Arabic poetry and Western poetry}, KEYWORDS = {Commerce Journal, OCR, TEI encoding, literary journal, digital resources, Arabic poetry}, PAGES = {36-45}, URL = {https://www.innove.org/ijist/index.php/ijist/article/view/193/149}, VOLUME = {5 (3)}, DOI = {10.57675/IMIST.PRSM/ijist-v5i3.193}, ISSN = {2550-5114}, JOURNAL = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY}, } @TECHREPORT{BANDINI_2021_TECHREPORT_BBN_461479, AUTHOR = {Bandini, M. and Boschetti, F. and Nahli, O.}, TITLE = {How to encode the literary French journal Commerce using TEI}, YEAR = {2021}, ABSTRACT = {This technical report aims to show all the steps followed to encode the literary journal Commerce according to the TEI P5 Guidelines. Commerce is a literary French journal founded in 1924 by Paul Valéry, Léon-Paul Fargue, and Valery Larbaud, composed of 29 volumes published between 1924 and 1932. Each volume collects different literary material from various well-known and unknown writers as poems or novels which are all translations into French. In detail, with this paper we want to provide a guideline for the encoding of the volumes, showing all the tags and attributes which should be used and many examples taken from the XML of volumes number 5 and 6. This report is the result of work done in collaboration with the University of Pisa and the Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" CNR Pisa}, URL = {https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/461479}, }