Claudio Cortese

PhD in Archaeology and lecturer in "Computer Applications in Archaeology" at the Catholic University of Milan. His main interest is management and analysis of data in the cultural heritage area through the use of different methods, standards and technologies, from relational databases to GIS, from Digital Libraries to the Semantic Web. In the historical / archaeological field his working activity is mainly oriented towards the design and creation of databases for several research groups. During the PhD has also gained experience in the use of statistical techniques for the analysis of archaeological data, tools used mainly for the reconstruction of the transformation processes that affected the ancient material culture. In the last decade he worked at the Interuniversity Consortia Cilea and Cineca. Here his interests expanded to the wider field of digital humanities, and materialized mainly in project management and analysis of data and metadata in the context of Digital Library Management Systems for the curation, preservation, reuse and distribution of cultural digital resources. In relation to all these topics he provided consulting services, lessons and courses in universities and in public and private institutions. He currently holds the position of Project Manager and Analyst in the field of digital humanities at 4Science.