SERICA

Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia. Interactive Texts and Intelligent Networks

Tipologia

Progetti nazionali

Programma di ricerca

Global history approach to the Silk Road, with a diachronic and historical study of the textual and material culture documents of some involved civilizations (Hellenistic, Armenian, Indian, Central-Asiatic, Chinese between IV century and XVIII century AD) Creation of a digital library which includes images and is capable of allowing searches related to the world of the semantic web (in collaboration with ELA, Eurasian Latin Archive, ela.unisi.it) Creation of geolocalized and diachronic interactive maps of the places identified in the texts Linguistic and literary studies on the works included in the database, with particular attention to Latin Broad-spectrum dissemination of research results through virtual and real exhibitions (MAO of Turin) and through the provision of data also useful from the tourist’s viewpoint Development of a free access portal with innovative semantic web and artificial intelligence tools (machine learning and NLP research activities)

Ente finanziatore

MIUR FISR

Settore ERC

SH5_1 - Classics, ancient literature and art

SH5_3 - Philology

SH6_11 - Global history, transnational history, comparative history, entangled histories

SH6_14 - History of ideas, intellectual history, history of economic thought

Budget

686000 euro unità di Torino, 1400000 totale

Periodo

01/06/2021 - 31/05/2023

Link

Sito web

Responsabile

Andrea Balbo

Partecipanti al progetto

Balbo Andrea (Responsabile)
Anro' Alberto (PostDoc)
De Togni Monica (Ricercatore)
Stafutti Stefania (Ricercatore)
Della Calce Elisa (PostDoc)
Mollea Simone (PostDoc)
Piccione Rosa Maria (Ricercatore)
Mazzocca Andrea (Tecnico)

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Descrizione del progetto

- SERICA stands for
Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia. Interactive Texts and Intelligent Networks
- This project was awarded by a grant from the Italian University Ministry in the FISR 2019 (Fondo integrativo speciale per la ricerca) call.
- SERICA includes 2 research groups
Group 1: Pisa University, P.I. C. O. Tommasi (History of Religions)

Group 2: Turin University, P.I. myself (Latin Language and Literature)

Overall, the groups involve almost 30 scholars.
Global history approach to the Silk Road, with a diachronic and historical study of the textual and material culture documents of some involved civilizations (Hellenistic, Armenian, Indian, Central-Asiatic, Chinese between IV century and XVIII century AD
Creation of a digital library which includes images and is capable of allowing searches related to the world of the semantic web (in collaboration with ELA, Eurasian Latin Archive, ela.unisi.it)
Creation of geolocalized and diachronic interactive maps of the places identified in the texts
Linguistic and literary studies on the works included in the database, with particular attention to Latin
Broad-spectrum dissemination of research results through virtual and real exhibitions (MAO of Turin) and through the provision of data also useful from the tourist’s viewpoint
Development of a free access portal with innovative semantic web and artificial intelligence tools (machine learning and NLP research activities)