User:Roberto Rosselli Del Turco

Roberto Rosselli Del Turco is an Assistant Professor at the Università degli studi di Torino, where he teaches Germanic Philology, Old English language and literature, and Digital Humanities. He is also an Assistant Professor of Humanities Computing at the University of Pisa and an Adjunct Professor in Digital Philology and Text Encoding at the University of Siena. Rosselli Del Turco has published widely on the Digital Humanities and Anglo-Saxon studies. He has recently edited and translated the Old English Battle of Maldon poem (2009) and is the editor of the ongoing Digital Vercelli Book (http://vbd.humnet.unipi.it/), a project that aims at providing a full edition of this important manuscript. He is lead developer of Edition Visualization Technology (EVT), a software tool created at the University of Pisa to navigate and visualize digital editions based on the TEI XML encoding standard (http:/sourceforge.net/projects/evt-project/), which was born within the DVB project. He is also co-director of the Visionary Cross project (http://www.visionarycross.org/), an international project aiming at producing an advanced multimedia edition of key Anglo-Saxon texts and monuments (in particular the Dream of the Rood poem and the Ruthwell and Bewcastle preaching crosses).