Dr G. (Giovanni) Colavizza
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Visiting address
- Science Park 900
- Room number: L6.41
Postal address
- Postbus 19268
1000 GG Amsterdam
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Profile
Giovanni is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at UvA, visiting researcher at The Alan Turing Institute and at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University.
He did his PhD at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of the EPFL in Lausanne, working on methods for text mining and citation analysis of scholarly publications, and is co-founder of Odoma, a start-up offering customised machine learning techniques in the cultural heritage domain. Giovanni was also a Co-investigator on the Living with Machines project and convenes the AI for Arts interest group at the Turing.
Giovanni is interested in several topics spanning from AI for cultural heritage (part of UvA CREATE), to crypto art markets and the public understanding of science.
Prior to joining the UvA, Giovanni has been part of the Research Engineering Group of The Alan Turing Institute, and a researcher at Leiden University (CWTS), the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, and the University of Oxford. He studied computer science (BSc) and history (BA, MA) in Udine, Milan, Padua and Venice in Italy.
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Publications
2022
Colavizza, G., Blanke, T., Jeurgens, C., & Noordegraaf, J. (2022). Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives. ACM journal on computing and cultural heritage : JOCCH, 15(1), [4]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479010 [details]
2021
- Colavizza, G., Costas, R., Traag, V. A., van Eck, N. J., van Leeuwen, T., & Waltman, L. (2021). A scientometric overview of CORD-19. PLoS ONE, 16(1), [e0244839]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244839 [details]
- Franceschet, M., Colavizza, G., Smith, T., Finucane, B., Ostachowski, M. L., Scalet, S., Perkins, J., Morgan, J., & Hernández, S. (2021). Crypto Art: A Decentralized View. Leonardo, 54(4), 402-405, 435. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02003 [details]
- Hosseini, K., Beelen, K., Colavizza, G., & Coll Ardanuy, M. (2021). Neural Language Models for Nineteenth-Century English. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 7, [22]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.11321, https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.48 [details]
- Piccardi, T., West, R., Redi, M., & Colavizza, G. (2021). Количественные характеристики работы с цитатами в Википедии. (Часть 4) = Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. (Part 4). Nauchnye i tekhnicheskie biblioteki, 2021(2), 101-128. https://doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2021-2-101-115 [details]
- Singh, H., West, R., & Colavizza, G. (2021). Wikipedia citations: A comprehensive data set of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00105 [details]
2020
- Colavizza, G. (2020). Are We Breaking the Social Contract? Journal of cultural analytics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.11828 [details]
- Colavizza, G. (2020). COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(4), 1349-1380. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00080 [details]
- Colavizza, G., Cella, R., & Bellavitis, A. (2020). Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice. In M. Prak, & P. Wallis (Eds.), Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe (pp. 106-137). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108690188.005 [details]
- Colavizza, G., Hrynaszkiewicz, I., Staden, I., Whitaker, K., & McGillivray, B. (2020). The citation advantage of linking publications to research data. PLoS ONE, 15(4), [e0230416]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230416 [details]
- Daquino, M., Peroni, S., Shotton, D., Colavizza, G., Ghavimi, B., Lauscher, A., Mayr, P., Romanello, M., & Zumstein, P. (2020). The OpenCitations Data Model. In J. Z. Pan, V. Tamma, C. d’Amato, K. Janowicz, B. Fu, A. Polleres, O. Seneviratne, & L. Kagal (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020 : 19th International Semantic Web Conference Athens, Greece, November 2–6, 2020 : Proceedings (Vol. II, pp. 447-463). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12507). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62466-8_28 [details]
- Franceschet, M., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Quantifying the higher-order influence of scientific publications. Scientometrics, 125(2), 951–963. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03580-9 [details]
- Lazzari, G., Colavizza, G., Bortoluzzi, F., Drago, D., Erboso, A., Zugno, F., Kaplan, F., & Salathé, M. (2020). A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice. Scientific Reports, 10, [17849]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74775-6 [details]
- Piccardi, T., Redi, M., Colavizza, G., & West, R. (2020). Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. In The Web Conference 2020: Proceedings of The World Wide Web Conference WWW 2020 : April 20–24, 2020 Taipei, Taiwan (pp. 2365-2376). International World Wide Web Conference Committee. https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380300 [details]
- Piccardi, T., West, R., Redi, M., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Количественные характеристики работы с цитатами в Википедии. (Часть 1) = Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. (Part 1). Nauchnye i tekhnicheskie biblioteki, 2020(9), 95-120. https://doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2020-9-95-108 [details]
- Piccardi, T., West, R., Redi, M., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Количественные характеристики работы с цитатами в Википедии. (Часть 2) = Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. (Part 2). Nauchnye i tekhnicheskie biblioteki, 2020(10), 63-86. https://doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2020-10-63-76 [details]
- Piccardi, T., West, R., Redi, M., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Количественные характеристики работы с цитатами в Википедии. (Часть 3) = Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia. (Part 3). Nauchnye i tekhnicheskie biblioteki, 2020(11), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2020-11-147-156 [details]
- Spinaci, G., Colavizza, G., & Peroni, S. (2020). Preliminary Results on Mapping Digital Humanities Research. In C. Marras, M. Passarotti, G. Franzini, & E. Litta (Eds.), La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l'Informatica Umanistica: Atti del IX Convegno Annuale dell'Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) : 15-17 gennaio 2020, Milano, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (pp. 246-252). (Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale. Supplement). Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6316 [details]
- Todorov, K., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Transfer Learning for Historical Corpora: An Assessment on Post-OCR Correction and Named Entity Recognition. In F. Karsdorp, M. McGillivray, A. Nerghes, & M. Wevers (Eds.), CHR 2020 : Computational Humanities Research 2020: Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2020) : Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 18-20, 2020 (pp. 310-339). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2723). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/long32.pdf [details]
- Waltman, L., Boyack, K. W., Colavizza, G., & van Eck, N. J. (2020). A principled methodology for comparing relatedness measures for clustering publications. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(2), 691-713. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00035 [details]
- van Strien, D., Beelen, K., Coll Ardanuy, M., Hosseini, K., McGillivray, B., & Colavizza, G. (2020). Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks. In A. Rocha, L. Steels, & J. van den Herik (Eds.), ICAART 2020 : proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence : Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020 (Vol. 1, pp. 484-496). ScitePress. https://doi.org/10.5220/0009169004840496 [details]
2019
- Colavizza, G., & Romanello, M. (2019). Citation Mining of Humanities Journals: The Progress to Date and the Challenges Ahead. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 4(1), 36-53. https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10120 [details]
- Colavizza, G., Franceschet, M., Traag, V. A., & Waltman, L. (2019). Quantifying the long-term influence of scientific publications. In G. Catalano, C. Daraio, M. Gregori, H. F. Moed, & G. Ruocco (Eds.), 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2019 - Proceedings (Vol. 1, pp. 1301-1306). International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
- Colavizza, G., Franssen, T., & van Leeuwen, T. (2019). An empirical investigation of the tribes and their territories: Are research specialisms rural and urban? Journal of Informetrics, 13(1), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.11.006
- Colavizza, G., Romanello, M., Giuliano, A., Mataloni, M. C., & Grandin, D. (2019). Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia. DigItalia, 14(1), 132-146. http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/2280/1551 [details]
- Filgueira, R., Jackson, M., Roubickova, A., Krause, A., Ahnert, R., Hauswedell, T., Nyhan, J., Beavan, D., Hobson, T., Ardanuy, M. C., Colavizza, G., Hetherington, J., & Terras, M. (2019). defoe: A Spark-based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data. In IEEE 15th International Conference on eScience: proceedings : 24-27 September 2019, San Diego, California (pp. 235-242). [9041813] IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2019.00033 [details]
- Madge, J., Colavizza, G., Hetherington, J., Guo, W., & Wilson, A. (2019). Assessing Simulations of Imperial Dynamics and Conflict in the Ancient World. Cliodynamics, 10(2), 99-114. https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio10245282 [details]
2018
- Albertin, F., Balliana, E., Pizzol, G., Colavizza, G., Zendri, E., & Raines, D. (2018). Printing materials and technologies in the 15th–17th century book production: An undervalued research field. Microchemical Journal, 138, 147-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2017.12.010
- Boyack, K. W., van Eck, N. J., Colavizza, G., & Waltman, L. (2018). Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 12(1), 59-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.11.005
- Colavizza, G. (2018). A diachronic study of historiography. Scientometrics, 117(3), 2117-2131. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2934-0
- Colavizza, G. (2018). Understanding the history of the humanities from a bibliometric perspective: Expansion, conjunctures, and traditions in the last decades of venetian historiography (1950–2013). History of Humanities, 3(2), 377-406. https://doi.org/10.1086/699300
- Colavizza, G., Boyack, K. W., van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2018). The Closer the Better: Similarity of Publication Pairs at Different Cocitation Levels. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 69(4), 600-609. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23981
- Colavizza, G., Romanello, M., & Kaplan, F. (2018). The references of references: a method to enrich humanities library catalogs with citation data. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 19(2-3), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-017-0210-1
2017
- Colavizza, G. (2017). The structural role of the core literature in history. Scientometrics, 113(3), 1787-1809. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2550-4
- Franceschet, M., & Colavizza, G. (2017). TimeRank: A dynamic approach to rate scholars using citations. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 1128-1141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.09.003
2016
- Colavizza, G. (2016). Epidemics in Venice: on the small or large nature of the pre-modern world. In B. Bozic, G. Mendel-Gleason, C. Debruyne, & D. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities - 2nd IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop O4CHDDH 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 33-40). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 482). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_4
- Colavizza, G., & Franceschet, M. (2016). Clustering citation histories in the Physical Review. Journal of Informetrics, 10(4), 1037-1051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.07.009
2015
- Colavizza, G., Infelise, M., & Kaplan, F. (2015). Mapping the early modern news flow: An enquiry by robust text reuse detection. In D. McFarland, & L. M. Aiello (Eds.), Social Informatics - SocInfo 2014 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 244-253). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8852). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15168-7_31
2014
- Piotrowski, M., Colavizza, G., Thiery, F., & Bruhn, K. C. (2014). The labeling system: A new approach to overcome the vocabulary bottleneck. In P. Schmitz, Q. Dombrowski, & L. Pearce (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop: Collaborative Annotations in Shared Environments: Metadata, Tools, and Techniques in the Digital Humanities, DH-CASE 2014 - Co-located with ACM DocEng 2014 [a1] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 16). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2657480.2657482
2021
- Kackovic, M. (Author), Colavizza, G. (Author), & Leiter, A. (Author). (2021). Crypto Art – The new kid on the block. Web publication or website, Global Digital Cultures. https://globaldigitalcultures.org/2021/02/15/crypto-art-the-new-kid-on-the-block/ [details]
- Piccardi, T., Redi, M., Colavizza, G., & West, R. (2021). On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web. In The Web Conference 2021: proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference WWW 2021 : April 19-23, 2021, Ljubljana, Slovenia (pp. 249-260). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442381.3450136 [details]
2020
- The Alan Turing Institute, Humanities and data science special interest group (2020). The challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A White Paper from The Alan Turing Institute. The Alan Turing Institute. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12732164 [details]
2022
- Todorov, K., & Colavizza, G. (2022). An Assessment of the Impact of OCR Noise on Language Models. 1-10. Paper presented at International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.00470.pdf
2021
- Jeub, L., Colavizza, G., Dong, X., Bazzi, M., & Cucuringu, M. (2021). Local2Global: Scaling global representation learning on graphs via local training. Paper presented at 5th International Workshop on Deep Learning on Graphs: KDD 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.12224
- Lamers, W., van Eck, N. J., & Colavizza, G. (2021). An appraisal of publication embedding techniques in the context of conventional bibliometric relatedness measures. Paper presented at International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics.
2017
- Boyack, K. W., Van Eck, N. J., Colavizza, G., & Waltman, A. L. (2017). Reference behavior in the full text of scientific articles: A large-scale analysis. 787-798. Paper presented at 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2017, Wuhan, China.
- Colavizza, G., Boyack, K. W., Van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2017). Exploring the similarity of articles co-cited at different levels. 549-560. Paper presented at 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2017, Wuhan, China.
- Waltman, L., Boyack, K. W., Colavizza, G., & Van Eck, N. J. (2017). A principled methodology for comparing relatedness measures for clustering publications. 691-702. Paper presented at 16th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2017, Wuhan, China.
Membership / relevant position
- Bussière, L., Colavizza, G., Fernández, R. & Bellomo, A. (2019-2021). ILLC Diversity Committee, . https://www.illc.uva.nl/AbouttheILLC/Diversity/Diversity-at-ILLC/
Media appearance
- Colavizza, G. (10-04-2021). Counting the Cost [Television] Al Jazeera. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duOiVLGIBR0
Others
- Fraumann, G. (organiser), Zahedi, Z. (organiser), Waltman, L. (organiser) & Colavizza, G. (participant) (8-9-2020). Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Colavizza, G. (participant) & Waltman, L. (organiser) (20-5-2020). Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2022
- Luthra, M., Todorov, K., Jeurgens, C., Colavizza, G., Wissen, L., Guigonnat, J., Hage, E., Coombs, S., Mulder, Y., Splunter, B. & Bijleveld, R. (2022). Unsilencing Colonial Archives via Automated Entity Recognition. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6958524
- Luthra, M., Todorov, K., Wissen, L., Jeurgens, C., Colavizza, G., Hage, E., Guigonnat, J., Bijleveld, R., Coombs, S. & Mulder, Y. (2022). Unsilencing Colonial Archives via Automated Entity Recognition. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7129316
- Luthra, M., Todorov, K., Jeurgens, C., Colavizza, G., Wissen, L., Guigonnat, J., Hage, E., Coombs, S., Mulder, Y., Splunter, B. & Bijleveld, R. (2022). Unsilencing Dutch Colonial Archives. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6958431
2021
- Colavizza, G. & Cuper, M. (2021). Is your OCR good enough? A comprehensive assessment of the impact of OCR quality on downstream tasks. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4498186
- Todorov, K. & Colavizza, G. (2021). ktodorov/historical-ocr: Beta release. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5799129
2020
- Roex, K. & Colavizza, G. (9-12-2020). Doing Science in Times of Covid-19: A Survey. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4313278
- Strien, D., Mariona, , Beelen, K., Hosseini, K., McGillivray, B. & Colavizza, G. (2020). alan-turing-institute/lwm_ARTIDIGH_2020_OCR_impact_downstream_NLP_tasks: ARTIDIGH Zenodo. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3611200
- Colavizza, G. (2020). COVID-19 research in Wikipedia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946495
2019
- Spinaci, G., Colavizza, G. & Peroni, S. (2019). List of Digital Humanities journals. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4164710
- Colavizza, G. (2019). Apprenticeship in Early Modern Venice - Supporting data and code. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2652855
- Franceschet, M. & Colavizza, G. (2019). Giovanni1085/art_metrics_public: First release for submission. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3344713
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Giovanni Colavizza
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Giovanni Colavizza
Colavizza, G., Blanke, T., Jeurgens, C., & Noordegraaf, J. (2022). Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives. ACM journal on computing and cultural heritage : JOCCH, 15(1), [4].