The study of normative corpora of the past is a key activity in the fields of Religious Studies and Legal History. The development of intelligent software tools that support this activity is of paramount importance to support the digital transformation of the community. We present an interdisciplinary activity that leads to an accurate automatic annotation of legal references in the Liber Extra’s Ordinary Gloss. An index of legal references has been derived from the annotations enabling the creation of novel navigation and data analysis tools. The contribution of this work is twofold: the actual index is already by itself valuable resource for the discipline, and we detail the process that leads to its production, showing that an effective result can be delivered by a small team with limited resources. Both the index and the code are made publicly available.

Debora de Fazio e Pierluigi Ortolano affidano alle pagine di un’agile “bussola” Carocci una stimolante indagine sociolinguistica sui meme, collocata all’incrocio tra Digital e Public Humanities. In essa gli autori tracciano una storia linguistica del fenomeno, partendo dalle riflessioni formulate dall’onomaturgo Richard Dawkins e passando in rassegna i principali termini derivati (capp. 1-2). Il nucleo dello studio è costituito dall’analisi dei tratti linguistici dell’italiano dei meme, che si accompagna alla definizione di alcune istanze di classificazione per tipologia, contenuto (cap. 3) e ambito di applicazione (sport, politica, società; cap. 4). Completa il volume una proposta didattica che, nell’ambito dell’insegnamento dell’italiano a scuola e all’università, valorizza l’uso dei meme in chiave ludo-linguistica, come strumento per risalire alle regole grammaticali a partire dall’errore (cap. 5 e materiali online).

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The volume Textual Cultures 12:2 contains some of the works presented at the fifth Incontro di Filologia Digitale (15-16 June 2018, Verona) with a foreword by Michelangelo Zaccarello. The theme of the event, “Born-digital editions and texts: theories, working approaches and methods”, aimed to provoke discussion on both shortcomings and breakthroughs in scholarly digital editing and to promote new projects. Moreover, the resulting collection of essays is defined by Zaccarello as an incentive to cooperation between Italian and North-American scholars. From the case studies gathered in this publication and the words of some contributors, it appears that an interesting matter of continuous debate among digital humanists and cause for reflection for readers is the dichotomy between the use of already established resources and workflows and the need to invent ad hoc tools and systems to answer new research questions. Since this incongruity can cause confusion in students and researchers entering the field and hinder the collaboration between different academic groups, the goal of my review is to address these problems from the perspective of an aspiring digital philologist in the hope of emphasising the conversations we still must have to ensure successful progress in these studies.

Lo scopo del report è illustrare due risultati del progetto ERC PerformArt: il database e il thesaurus. A partire dal 2016, il team di ricerca ha sviluppato un ricco database; lo sviluppo di un thesaurus si è reso necessario per navigare attraverso questa mole di dati.

The volume Book conservation and digitization: the challenges of dialogue and collaboration, edited by Alberto Campagnolo and written by him in collaboration with other authors, focuses on the process of conservation and use in the digital environment of the manuscript and the ancient book. Fundamental concepts such as physicality and materiality are highlighted and, also based on the presentation of some projects by professionals, the importance of close collaboration between the figures who work, in various capacities, in these two phases is affirmed. fundamental for preserving and studying ancient manuscript and printed material.