Caldarelli, Codello 2025, fig. 2

Related article: Caldarelli G., Codello A. 2025, The new science of Long Data: presentation of The Venice Long Data Project, in M. Pilutti Namer, A. Auconi, G. A. Bordi (eds.), Networks and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology and Art History: Essays from the Venice Symposium (5-6 December 2024), «Archeologia e Calcolatori», 36.2, 15-22 (https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.36.2.2025.03)

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Long Data in action. After digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence is first trained on sample pages prepared by expert palaeographers and then used to automatically transcribe all compatible documents, which are successively validated by historians; feature extraction (people and locations in the example) follows document segmentation and dating (Big Data techniques); the resulting data is organised in a temporal multi-layer network that fully represents the information contained in the archival documents considered (Science of Networks approach).

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