PROJECTS
UniVOCIttà (2022-2023)
The UniVOCIttà project, funded by NextGenerationEU as part of the Almaldea 2022 call, is an activity of the LBC-CeSLiC Unit, and a continuation of the UNICittà project.
The goal of the project "UniVOCIttà: Digital voices on Bologna’s unique heritage " is the creation of a new digital resource (a multilingual corpus) to collect foreign voices testifying to Bologna's unique artistic, cultural, and naturalistic heritage. These voices are included in literary works, travel writings, correspondences, and reports from scholars of medieval Europe, as well as tourists and illustrious travellers from all eras, particularly the Grand Tour (17th and 18th centuries). The project has developed a Web App addressed to all, tourists and non-tourists, that explores a part of Bologna’s cultural heritage that remains to this day off the beaten path of the tourist industry .
The project and its mobile App were introduced to the public during the last two editions of the Sabati del Lilec (Saturdays at Lilec), as one of the Third Mission’s activities of the LBC-CeSLiC Unit.
UNICittà (2020-2021)
The UNICittà project, funded by the Fondazione Carisbo under the "Riscopriamo la città 2019" call, is one of the activities of the LBC-CeSLiC Unit.
The project focused on the collection, digitization, and dissemination of a multilingual and digital corpus of past and contemporary documentation (in English, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, and German) on the material and immaterial legacy of the University of Bologna, as a unique example of heritage. The ultimate goal was to enhance the knowledge of Bologna's artistic heritage connected to the development of the earliest University in the western world.
The collected materials, appropriately selected, were then shared with students, foreign colleagues, and the local community during dedicated events. The aim of the latter was to gather further documentation about the University heritage that connects with, responds to, or is inspired by past testimonies.
For more information about the project and related events, you can consult the specific websites:
Interview by Pregevole Podcast with members of the LBC-CeSLiC research unit on the UNICittà Project.
Vasari in Translation (2018- )
Under the coordination of Valeria Zotti and Daniel Henkel (Université Paris 8), work is underway on the creation of an aligned multilingual parallel corpus of Giorgio Vasari's Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori (1568) and its respective translations into English, French, Spanish, and Russian.
Spanish Glossary (2018-2021)
The LBC Spanish Glossary provides access to concordances extracted from the LBC Corpus (Lexicon of Cultural Heritage) based on a set of lemmas selected by the editors of the volume. It includes an extensive methodological introduction, which presents the criteria used to create the glossary and to analyse the concordances. The introduction illustrates the choice of reference dictionaries and corpora.
The glossary includes an essential repertoire of Spanish terms in the field of artistic and cultural heritage, with toponyms and anthroponyms directly linked to Italian and Florentine art. It is a consultation work that may be of interest to those working on specialized lexicons, translators, and cultural operators.
LBC Corpora (2018-2022)
The LBC corpora present two different types of texts:
a) Texts of Giorgio Vasari's Vite (1550 and 1568), a key reference work since the Renaissance for describing Florentine artistic heritage. Vite has influenced the description of the artistic lexicon all over Europe. The texts are paired with their translations into the different project languages;
b) Comparable monolingual corpora, which include several types of texts (guides, blogs and tourist magazines, specialized texts, and art criticism manuals). These corpora are representative of the various levels of technicality within the artistic lexicon, ranging from popular to specialized terminology.
The LBC corpora is a reference tool for all professionals in the sector and, at the same time, it is a means for the promotion of Italian artistic and cultural heritage.