Nicola Carboni
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNicola Carboni is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational humanities, knowledge graphs, and cultural heritage data. He has led large-scale projects across European museums and universities, designing RDF-based data pipelines, semantic architectures, and governance frameworks for multimillion-image corpora. His work blends rigorous academic research (PhD in Engineering) with hands-on data engineering—transforming messy cultural datasets into interoperable, machine-actionable resources and building shared semantic authorities. Notably, he has translated art-historical questions into scalable metadata models (including CIDOC-CRM extensions) that enable spatio-temporal and circulation analyses of imagery. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he combines scholarly depth with practical product delivery, from museum data portals to curated linked-open-data ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at National Technical University of AthensMaster's degree, Information Science | Data Management, Master's degree, Information Science | Data Management at Høgskolen i Oslo (HiO) / Oslo university CollegeBachelor's degree, Library and Information Science, 110/110, Bachelor's degree, Library and Information Science, 110/110 at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (109)
digital-humanities10
semantic-web10
thesaurus10
owl10
ontologies10
semantics10
vocabulary10
rdf10
sparql10
skos10
linked-data10
semantic10
structured-data10
r2rml10
sublime-text9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cordhum/docs
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Guidelines for RDF Serialisation of CIDOC-CRM used by CORDH
Contributions:88 commits, 47 pushes, 1 issue in 9 months
cidoclinked-datacidoc-crmguidelinescrm
ncarboni/website
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:47 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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