Mem.srl

Our Aims and Activities

Mem.srl is an innovative SME represented by academic researchers and collaborators from the Humanities and Digital Humanities, with more than five years of experience in physical digitisation, cultural and library heritage preservation, and the development of digital projects for libraries and archives. Our work places a special emphasis on non-Latin scripts and texts, enabling broader accessibility and innovative scholarly engagement.

Our goal is to combine academic expertise with technological innovation, leading collaborative projects and offering comprehensive editorial and creative services that bridge tradition and digital futures. Our editorial work spans the full publishing cycle — from manuscript preparation, editing, proofreading, and layout design to translation and multilingual publishing. We also specialise in e-book and digital publication production, graphic and typographic design for both print and digital media, and content adaptation for diverse audiences and platforms.

Digitisation & Dissemination of Cultural Heritage

applying advanced visual computing and AI for heritage preservation and access with a special focus on non-latin scripts heritages

Digital Humanities Research

developing innovative cataloguing systems, supporting non-Latin alphabets, and enabling new forms of cultural and scholarly engagement.

Editorial & Creative Services

offering editorial work, e-publishing, and design for digital and print formats.

Digital platforms and ICT innovation

developing online platforms, mobile apps, AI systems, big data analytics, and open-source software.

Consultancy, Training & Support

providing IT, statistical, management, hosting, maintenance, and technical assistance services.

Services

  • Digitisation & Cultural Heritage preservation

    • Digitisation and dissemination of cultural heritage

    • Virtual access to spaces and books

    • Innovative cataloguing systems with non-Latin alphabets

  • Digital Platforms & ICT Solutions

    • Design and delivery of online platforms and mobile applications

    • ICT hardware and software solutions

    • AI-driven systems and big data analytics platforms

    • Open-source software development

    • SEO optimisation and digital marketing strategies

  • Consultancy & Support Services

    • IT, statistical, and management services

    • Website hosting and maintenance

    • Consultancy, training, and technical assistance

  • Editorial & Archival Services

    • Editorial and archival support

    • Editing, layout design, and proofreading

    • Translations and e-book production

    • Graphic design for digital and print formats

    • Portfolio

    MEM S.r.l. company is active in research and experimental development in the social sciences and humanities, with proven experience in the fields of Digital Humanities, the management of multilingual and multi-format cultural heritage, and the application of advanced computing techniques to historical, religious, librarian and archaeological contexts. 

    MEM S.r.l. company is based on high level of technical and scientific specialisation in Digital Humanities field and historical-religious data not easily comparable with standard solutions available on the market. Mem s.r.l. experience in this field is well-documented and demonstrated by the curricula of its principal scientific collaborators, whose profiles are highly specialised and complementary in areas such as:

    • The application of advanced digital and artificial intelligence tools to religious studies data.

    • Machine Learning and generative AI (LLMs, VLMs, MLLMs) pipelines and applications for cataloguing, Digital Humanities and religious research services (collaboration with international libraries and librarians, institutions, projects and researchers)

    • Design and production of high quality expert curated datasets for linguistic analysis in the filed of religious studies (Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Ottoman Turkish, and other low-resource languages)

    • Establishment and implementation of pools of experts in the fields of Humanities, Digital Humanities and ICT working in historical-religious disciplines and in contexts involving minority and low-resource languages.

    • Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) fine tuning for historical and religious data and metadata

    • Complete Hardware digitisation (via robot) of printed books and collections with an end-to-end processing and conversion of multilingual texts for religiou studies in editable and searchable format. 

    • FAIRification of data and FAIR structuring of multilingual religious studies corpora (Arabic, Aramaic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Ottoman Turkish, and other low-resource languages)

    • Scientific and philological validation of digital content and reviews (linguistical and humanistic validation of data and metadata)

    • Technical conversion and validation of metadata and 3D models of cultural assets

    • The design and development of web platforms for cultural heritage valorisation

    Mem.srl Team
     

    Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo

    Managing partner, co-administrator

    Graduated in Arabic, Persian language and Islamic studies from University of Naples "L'Orientale", he also studied ML and NLP related to Arabic and Persian language. He acquired the PhD in Digital Humanitries from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) with a dissertation entitled"Digital Maktaba: Cataloguing texts in non- latin alphabets. New approaches between Dgital Humanities and AI". He worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose (FSCIRE) on the Digital Maktaba Project as a Digital Humanities, Arabic and Persian Language and Islamic studies libraries expert collaborating with the IT experts in the frame of the Italian Strengthening of the European Research Infrastructure RESILIENCE (ITSERR). His work is also focused on low-resource languages and non-latin scripts in Digital libraries and AI context from OCR to generative AI. 

    Laura Bigoni

    Managing partner, co-administrator

    She teaches Biblical Hebrew at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and she is a researcher in Biblical philology, lexicography, and ancient Christian literature, specialising in the Septuagint and the Book of Esther in its Greek and Hebrew traditions, as well as their reception across antiquity and modernity. She has been a research fellow at the University of Bologna, working on the project "Semantic Search Engine for Biblical Quotations in Greek: Roots, Lemmas, Synonyms" within the national PRIN program Resilient Septuagint. In 2024 she earned a PhD in History of Religions from the University of Strasbourg with a dissertation on the concept of shame in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. Her academic journey also includes an MA in Classical Philology from Bologna, a diploma in Greek Palaeography from the Vatican School, and participation in several advanced international programs on textual criticism, manuscript studies, and ancient Mediterranean religions.

    Giancarlo Corda

    Managing partner, co-administrator

    He graduated in Philosophy and Cultural anthropology at the University of Bologna, where he also got his Master's in Publishing. For Mem.srl he serves as the manager of the editorial services. His specialisation and main focus are reviewing and editing texts.

    Umberto Poncina

    Collaborator

    He graduated in History and Oriental Studies from the University of Bologna. He has taken courses in library science and worked as a cataloguer of library holdings. He was in charge of the Digital Library and the acquisition of materials related to it at the Dossetti Library in Bologna

    Gilda Morselli

    Collaborator

    She graduated in History at the University of Bologna and earned a Master's degree in Historical Sciences with a specialization in History of Medieval Church, presenting the thesis Repression of Magical Practices in the Bologna Inquisition Trials (15th Century) in 2022.  In 2023, She took part in the Italian Civil Service program at the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII, contributing to the SCUBO project for the digitization of the G. Dossetti Library volumes using Image Processing & Automation Scangate LWF software. Since November 2024, she manages the Foundation's website and social media platforms.

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