Publications de Giovanni Colavizza

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia (Part 2)

Giovanni Colavizza, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

RUSSIAN NATL PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020

Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Giovanni Colavizza, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia was not conceived as a source of original information, but as a gateway to secondary sources: according to Wikipedia's gu ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice

Frédéric Kaplan, Gianrocco Lazzari, Giovanni Colavizza, Marcel Salathé

The plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is widely considered to be responsible for the most devastating and deadly pandemics in human history. Starting with the infamous Black Death, plague outbreaks are estimated to have ...

Nature Research2020

Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

The promise of digitization of historical archives lies in their indexation at the level of contents. Unfortunately, this kind of indexation does not scale, if done manually. In this article we present a method to bootstrap the deployment of a content-base ...

2019

Citation Mining of Humanities Journals: The Progress to Date and the Challenges Ahead

Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

Even large citation indexes such as the Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar cover only a small fraction of the literature in the humanities. This coverage sensibly decreases going backwards in time. Citation mining of humanities publications — defined ...

2019

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019

The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspaper Collections

Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

Historical newspapers are of interest to many humanities scholars as sources of information and language closely tied to a particular time, social context and place. Digitised newspapers are also of interest to many data-driven researchers who seek large b ...

2019

Printing materials and technologies in the 15th−17th century book production: an undervalued research field

Giovanni Colavizza, Fauzia Albertin

We present a systematic non-invasive investigation of a large corpus of early printed books, exploiting multiple techniques. This work is part of a broader project -- Argeia -- aiming to study early printing technologies, their evolution and, potentially, ...

Elsevier2018

A diachronic study of historiography

Giovanni Colavizza

The humanities are often characterized by sociologists as having a low mutual dependence among scholars and high task uncertainty. According to Fuchs’ theory of scientific change, this leads over time to intellectual and social fragmentation, as new schola ...

2018

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

Understanding the History of the Humanities from a Bibliometric Perspective: Expansion, Conjunctures, and Traditions in the Last Decades of Venetian Historiography (1950–2013)

Giovanni Colavizza

Historiography is undergoing incessant expansion in the number of publications and active scholars, as is the case with the humanities and sciences in general. Little is known about what effects this has on the research activity and ways of publishing of h ...

2018

Annotated References in the Historiography on Venice: 19th–21st centuries

Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

We publish a dataset containing more than 40’000 manually annotated references from a broad corpus of books and journal articles on the history of Venice. References were considered from both reference lists and footnotes, include primary and secondary sou ...

2017

The structural role of the core literature in history

Giovanni Colavizza

The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory. Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines areas of intellectual activity. An open question relates to the structural role of core literature: hi ...

Springer Verlag2017

The Core Literature of the Historians of Venice

Giovanni Colavizza

Over the past decades, the humanities have been accumulating a growing body of literature at an increasing pace. How does this impact their traditional organization into disciplines and fields of research therein? This article considers history, by examini ...

2017

The references of references: a method to enrich humanities library catalogs with citation data

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

The advent of large-scale citation indexes has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information in several domains of research. The humanities have largely remained outside of this shift, despite their increasing reliance on digital means for infor ...

Springer Verlag2017

TimeRank: A dynamic approach to rate scholars using citations

Giovanni Colavizza, Massimo Franceschet

Rating has become a common practice of modern science. No rating system can be considered as final, but instead several approaches can be taken, which magnify different aspects of the fabric of science. We introduce an approach for rating scholars which us ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

A View on Venetian Apprenticeship through the Garzoni Database

Giovanni Colavizza

A sample of contracts of apprenticeship from three periods in the history of early modern Venice is analysed, as recorded in the archive of the Giustizia Vecchia, a venetian magistracy. The periods are the end of the 16th century, the 1620s and the 1650s. ...

Universitas Studiorum2017

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Giovanni Colavizza

Marvel et al. [12] recently argued that the pre-modern contact world was physically and, by set inclusion, socially not small-world. Since the Black Death and similar plagues used to spread in well-defined waves, the argument goes, the underlying contact n ...

Springer International Publishing2016

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

Clustering citation histories in the Physical Review

Giovanni Colavizza, Massimo Franceschet

We investigate publications through their citation histories – the history events are the citations given to the article by younger publications and the time of the event is the date of publication of the citing article. We propose a methodology, based on ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016