Provenance LabLeuphana University Lüneburg
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Dr. Fabio Mariani

Dr. Fabio Mariani

Affiliated Researcher

Role

Affiliated Researcher, Provenance Lab, Leuphana University. Former core team member (Digital Humanities Research Associate, August 2020 – ca. 2024).

Biography

Fabio Mariani is a digital humanities researcher who developed key tools and frameworks for the Provenance Lab, including the VISU framework for handling complex provenance data and the PROV-A web-based tool for structuring provenance as linked open data. He is a co-author on the majority of the Lab's publications.

Education

  • PhD — Leuphana University Lüneburg. Dissertation: "Vague, Incomplete, Subjective, and Uncertain Information in Digital Art History"
  • BA/MA in History and Digital Humanities — University of Bologna (DHDK program)

Research Interests

  • Semantic web technologies applied to complex historical information
  • Linked open data for provenance research
  • Vagueness, incompleteness, subjectivity, and uncertainty in art data (VISU)
  • Computational methods in the humanities
  • AI and machine learning for museum data
  • Biographical entity linking (Wikidata, ULAN)

Key Innovations

VISU Framework

VISU (Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty) — a framework for classifying types of uncertain information in provenance data. From the Latin "de visu" meaning "with your own eyes." Helps domain experts handle vague, incomplete, subjective, and uncertain information while preserving the integrity of historical information.

PROV-A Tool

PROV-A — a web-based tool for creating and publishing provenance information as Linked Open Data. Published in Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (2025).

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