The Team

Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer

Lukas Klic is Head of Digital Humanities Research and Manager of Information Services & Digital Initiatives at I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. With a background in Art History, Library Science, and Digital Humanities, his research focuses on digital tools that facilitate the accessibility and interpretation of cultural heritage, leveraging Linked Open Data (LOD) to allow for the cross-pollination of research data. At I Tatti he leads a number of projects involving Linked Open Data, computer vision, natural language processing, geospatial mapping, and digital publishing. He is the Technical Architect of Pharos, the International Consortium of Photo Archives, a group of fourteen North American and European art historical photo archives currently building an open and freely accessible digital research platform for the history of art. He was the co-principal investigator of the Samuel H Kress Foundation sponsored project The Drawings of the Florentine Painters that transformed and published Bernard Berenson’s work in a semantically enriched digital edition. He has worked in the library system of Harvard University for over twenty years in various capacities, and holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from Simmons University and a PhD in Computer Science from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with a concentration in Digital Humanities.

Gianmarco Spinaci is a PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem and holds a Master’s in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (DHDK) and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Management from Università di Bologna. Since 2019, Gianmarco has been associated with Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, holding the position of Digital Humanities Research Associate and, from 2022, Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer, where he is building Digital Research Infrastructures for the NEH grant Metapolis and the ERC Starting Grant Venice’s Nissology.
Among its interests are integrating advanced Artificial Intelligence methodologies into vast datasets within humanities domains, commitment to exploring the field of Linked Data, particularly in the context of cultural heritage data, and emphasising ethical considerations such as openness of science. His initiatives revolve around knowledge discovery, encompassing the processes of mining, exploring, categorising, and visualising humanities data and establishing digital infrastructures.

Remo Grillo is a Phd candidate in the Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem programme at the University of Bologna, and a collaborator as Digital Humanities Researcher and Software Engineer at I Tatti – The Harvard university Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. He worked as a Full-stack Web Developer while attending the University of Naples Federico II and Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy with a thesis on Logic, applied to a digital critical edition of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
His research focuses on the application of state of the art Artificial Intelligence to knowledge graphs, as well as on algorithms related to language, music, and prototyping of museum artifacts.