Dr. Sofia Baroncini

Since January 2024: Postdoc researcher at Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz (DH Lab)
From January to April 2023: Research period at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris (France)
From April to June 2022: visiting at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany)
2020-2023: PhD student in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna (Italy) and member of the Digital Humanities Advanced Research Centre (/DH.arc, Bologna, Italy)
2017-2020: Master’s degree in Visual Arts, University of Bologna (Italy)
2014-2017: Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Humanities Studies, University of Bologna (Italy)

• Semantic web (Ontologies, RDF data, SPARQL)
• Graphs
• Iconography and Iconology
• Art history methodologies and historiography

• Baroncini, S., Daquino, M., & Tomasi, F. (2023). Are domain-specific theoretical approaches valuable for the application of new computational methods? The case study of Erwin Panofsky’s artworks interpretations and the semantic web, in: Althage, M.,Dröge, M., Hiltmann, T. Prinz, C. (ed.), Digitale Methoden in der geschichtswissenschaftlichen Praxis: Fachliche Transformationen und ihre epistemologischen Konsequenzen. Konferenzbeiträge der Digital History 2023, Berlin 2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8321994
• Sartini, B., Baroncini, S., van Erp, M., Tomasi, F., & Gangemi, A. (2023). ICON: An Ontology for Comprehensive Artistic Interpretations. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594724
• Baroncini, S., Sartini, B., Van Erp, M., Tomasi, F., & Gangemi, A. (2023). Is dc:subject enough? A landscape on iconography and iconology statements of knowledge graphs in the semantic web. Journal of Documentation, 79(7), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2022-0207
• Baroncini, S., Daquino, M., & Tomasi, F. (2021). Modelling Art Interpretation and Meaning. A Data Model for Describing Iconology and Iconography. AIDAinformazioni, 1–2, 39–62. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.12967