Rome, Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage, Palazzo Mattei di Giove, Via Michelangelo Caetani 32
Date and admission
Tuesday 21 April 2026
Free admission
Programme
9.00 – FIRST SESSION
Chaired by Emilia Pantini
Official welcome and opening addresses
9.20–9.40 – Antonio Caroccia
Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia”, Rome
Musical heritage, digitisation and open data: disaggregation models and knowledge infrastructures
9.40–10.00 – Nicola Tangari
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
MeMo – Memory of Montecassino. Creating a digital library bridging research and education
10.00–10.20 – Teresa Maria Gialdroni
Tor Vergata University, Rome
Clori. Archive of the Italian Cantata: a tool for musicological research
10.20–10.40 – Coffee break
10.40–11.00 – Angelo Pompilio
University of Bologna – Ravenna Campus
Cataloguing and documenting Italian opera: the Corago project
11.00–11.20 – Silvia Paparelli, Filippo Farinelli, Alessandro Patalini
University of Paris 8 – ‘Francesco Morlacchi’ Conservatoire, Perugia – ‘Girolamo Frescobaldi’ Conservatoire, Ferrara
The LIRA project: towards an archive and database of Italian Romanza and Lirica
11.20–11.40 – Giulia Piperno
ICBSA Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage
The Ministry of Culture’s multimedia repository and the ICBSA’s digital heritage
11.40–12.00 – Presentations, papers, discussion
12.00–13.00 – Light lunch
13.00–14.00 – Tour of the ICBSA’s sound reproduction equipment
14.00 – SECOND SESSION
Chaired by Silvia Paparelli
14.00–14.20 – Luca Aversano
Roma Tre University
The digital archive of Rome’s Teatro Palladium: research, education and community building
14.20–14.40 – Alessandro Borin
“Agostino Steffani” Conservatoire, Castelfranco Veneto
General Coordinator of the PhD programme of national interest in “Artistic research on Musical Heritage”
with
Alessandro Malavasi, University of Padua
Marta Pacchin and Ilaria Scarponi, “Agostino Steffani” Conservatoire, Castelfranco Veneto
Towards a digital critical edition of Lorenzo Da Ponte’s libretti: models, coding and digital interface design
14.40–15.00 – Emilia Pantini
“Nicola Sala” Conservatory, Benevento
Libretto.wiki: organising a dynamic database
15.00–15.20 – Luca Polidoro
Specialist in Archival and Library Heritage
Open data in the context of the National Plan for the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: from vision to strategy
15.20–15.40 – Fabio Dell’Aversana
Academy of Fine Arts, Naples
with
Michela Parente and Isabella Menale, Academy of Fine Arts, Naples
Francesco Marchese, Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Copyright and open data: a difficult relationship?
15.40–17.00 – Presentations, papers, discussion and conclusions
Curated and organised by
Emilia Pantini and Silvia Paparelli.
