Is Distant Viewing a Scam?

Distant Viewing, the application of computer vision methods to Humanities data in the spirit of Distant Reading, is a well established part of Computational Humanities. But is it a scam?!Before you…

Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities

“Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities,” a symposium co-organized by Brown University Digital Publications an...

Recognizing inspiring work in digital preservation: DPA 2026 nominations open - Digital Preservation Coalition

GLI ARCHIVI CINEMATOGRAFICI - Fondazione Gramsci onlus

Seminario cura di Angela Bianca Saponari dedicato alla valorizzazione degli archivi del cinema conservati dalla Fondazione Gramsci, organizzato nell’ambito delle attività didattiche del corso di Laurea in Discipline dell’audiovisivo, della musica e dello spettacolo (Dams) dell’Università degli Studi di Bari-Aldo Moro. VENERDI ORE 9,50 | 12,20 PartecipanoAngela Bianca Saponari, Caterina D’Amico de Carvalho, Francesco Giasi

The Voynich Manuscript: A Systematic Reconstruction of Its Motoric Notation System and Acoustic Function

This monograph presents a comprehensive structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) based solely on its observable formal properties. Using a systemic, transcription‑independent analytical framework, the study demonstrates that the manuscript does not encode linguistic, cryptographic, botanical, medical, or cosmological content. Instead, it constitutes a functional, multimodal system integrating modular motoric sequences, cyclical diagrammatic architectures, layered operational structures, and resonance‑based dynamics. The analysis identifies the manuscript as a bimanual motoric notation system whose internal logic corresponds to the technique of a Gothic harp with a double‑string bordun. Glyph sequences function as modular action units; diagrams provide cyclical and spatial form models; iconographic elements depict bodily coordination, acoustic resonance, and regenerative procedures. Together, these components form a coherent operational ecology for the execution of structured acoustic and motoric processes. The study situates the manuscript within a premodern workshop environment involving multiple scribes, embedded in a socially coordinated acoustic practice rather than a textual or symbolic tradition. This contextualization supports the manuscript’s authenticity and explains its multimodal, practice‑oriented structure. The monograph offers the first internally consistent explanation of the manuscript’s architecture, providing a reproducible analytical method, a functional classification, and a complete reconstruction of its structural logic.

ANDARE A MORIRE - Fondazione Gramsci onlus

Seminario organizzato da Sapienza Università di Roma e Fondazione Gramsci – con la collaborazione di Fondazione Elvira Badaracco, Comune di Bologna e Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio di Bologna – per celebrare i cinquant'anni dalla morte di Renata Viganò (Bologna, 17 giugno 1900 – 23 aprile 1976).L’iniziativa rientra nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca di Ateneo Sapienza Università di

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