3 papers
cs.CY2024
Digitality as a "longue durèe" historical phenomenon
Salvatore Spina
The digital age introduced the Digital Ecological Niche (DEN), revolutionizing human interactions. The advent of Digital History (DHy) has marked a methodological shift in historic…
cs.HC2022
A plea for an upgrade to the digital craft of the historian and digital methodology for discovering the past
Salvatore Spina
This essay aims to bid analogue historians assume that digitisation is the first step to creating historical heritage based on the new language of Science: Computer Science. As we…
cs.DL2022
The Biscari Archive. A case study of the application of Transkribus tool
Salvatore Spina
The Paterno' Castello Principi di Biscari Archive, preserved at the State Archives of Catania, amongst one of the most crucial family archives, is, in the light of a digital histor…