Finanziamento dell’UE NextGenerationEU PRIN PNRR 2022 – A digital scholarly edition of the "Leges Langobardorum": social memory, historical legacy and valorisation of cultural heritage - M4C2 investimento 1.1 Avviso 1409/2022

The project aims to produce and publish a series of diplomatic editions, accompanied by digital facsimiles, of all relevant witnesses of the "Leges Langobardorum" textual tradition. Furthermore, a new comprehensive critical edition of the "Leges" will be provided. In order to reach these goals, a further development of the EVT (Edition Visualisation Technology) software will be carried out, with particular regard to the integrated edition functionality. This functionality will bring together the critical and the diplomatic editions, with the goal of a seamless navigation from the former to the latter, and viceversa. A digital glossary will also be integrated. The dissemination of all the edition materials will be performed in such a way as to make it possible both to reuse them according to the FAIR principles and to maximise the global impact of the project. The proponents are firmly convinced that since the new edition would be the result of a research work carried out in the digital paradigm and published in a digital form, the project will disclose the Lombard world - strictly linked to past and present Italy within a wider European environment - to audiences beyond academia (e.g. tourism, museums and, more generally, the GLAM sector), thus awaking the users to their own social memory, historical legacy and cultural heritage. Special attention will be paid to the topic of inclusion: EVT will, in fact, be equipped with accessibility settings. All this will be done in line with the chosen strategic topic "Human Wellbeing", cluster: "Culture, Creativity, Inclusive Society". The two research Units (UNIVE and UNITO) will work closely together. As shown by the high number of common publications and the shared projects, the network is already in force (in particular, the collaboration between Marina Buzzoni, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco and Franz Fischer is long-standing), and will be enriched by the addition of colleagues who are experts in Latin. Marina Buzzoni has been working on digital scholarly editions and digital innovation for a long time (at the moment she is supervising two REACT-EU positions on innovation, digital and enabling technologies, as well as the enhancement of human capital as a key factor for the development of research); Roberto Rosselli Del Turco is the mind behind the EVT software and its more recent technological developments; Franz Fischer leads a center in Digital and Public Humanities whose expertise can contribute not only to enrich the theoretical part of the project, but also to implement the more applicative one: in fact, the center supports the development, accessibility and dissemination of research in the field of Digital Humanities. The domain-experts Martina Venuti, UNIVE, and Ermanno Malaspina, President of the UNITO DISH center, are crucial to the project both for their deep knowledge of Latin, and for their expertise in the digital paradigm.