marek/maurizio

Research Grant 2011 - 2012

Research fellow with the Fondo Social Europeo project: Turismo EX CENTRO: itinerari culturali tailor-made per la promozione dei centri minori del territorio veneto (ex-centro tourism: personalized cultural itineraries to promote the less- know center of the Veneto territory). Study of the state of art of technologies in the topic of multimedia systems for the fruition of artworks and cultural heritage in the context of the Veneto italian region tourism. Design and development of a server-side system where domain-experts can mash-up existing information from well-known web services to compile a multimedia guide. Design and development of a client-side application to let visitors access personalized information and contribute to the social aspect of the project.
Tutor: Augusto Celentano, faculty member at Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (ING/INF-05) Duration: 1 year

Research Grant 2010 - 2011

Research fellow with the Fondo Social Europeo project: Sviluppo di sistemi multimediali interattivi e dei relativi contenuti informativi per sperimentare nuovi sistemi per la fruizione delle opere d’arte nel territorio veneto (multime- dia interactive systems for cultural heritage on the Veneto territory). Study of the state of art of technologies in the topic of multimedia systems for the fruition of artworks and cultural heritage in general. A content management system to store museum data have been developed and used to aid the production of multimedia guides on iPod Touches. Development of an art guide for the exhibition spaces of Punta della Dogana in Venice, featuring a collection of contemporary art pieces.
Tutor: Augusto Celentano, faculty member at Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (ING/INF-05) Duration: 1 year

Multimedia Art Guides 2008 - 2011

Academic research projects aiming to set up a modern critical instrument to allow museum and exhibitions visitors to understand art, architecture, and other topics. On one hand, they provide visitors with comprehensive information about art collections, artists, with rich multimedia material prepared by experts i.e., researchers, art critics, etc.. On the other hand, they provide not only designers and programmers but also domain experts (e.g., art critics) with a system in which they can gather, organize and tailor multimedia content of heterogeneous nature, instantiating a set of predefined templates on actual "visit paths".

PhD Student 2006 - 2009

In the context of the PRIN project “Musisque deoque II. Un archivio digitale dinamico di poesia latina, dalle origini al Rinascimento italiano”, sponsored by the italian MIUR, the PhD thesis “Manuzio: an Object Language for Annotated Text Collections” has been written. The thesis presents:

1. a specialized model to code literary texts in digital form that captures complex textual structures and multiple concurrent hierarchies;
2. a functional object-oriented language with persistent capabilities and constructs specific to deal with literary analysis algorithms;
3. a database structure to store texts and make them accessible from the language;
4. the guidelines for a complete system to store, analyze, and annotate complete textual corpora in a concurrent environment.

In the implementation phase an interpreter for the language has been developed and tested with two textual corpora (Shakespeare's plays and Eugenio Montale's poems). If interested, you can read the full dissertation about Manuzio.