Donatella Gavrilovich is an Associate Professor of the History of Theatre and Digital Technologies. Her research focused on the Performing Arts digital archives and theatrical exhibitions and on the theatre, dance, art and scenography. In 2012 she was invited to join the ECLAP-EUROPEANA project as an expert. The following year she began a collaboration with several European Universities for research on the application of new technologies to the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In 2014 she designed the ontology of an innovative knowledge base model for cataloguing theatrical performances (Performance Knowledge base). Since 2016 she collaborates with the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BIAS) on the methodology to create an International Performing Arts Platform. She has joined an International research network dedicated to the issue of digital archives and open data in theatre (LODEPA BIAS project). She is a member of W3C – PAIR CG, Open Science YERUN ‘Tor Vergata’, EURODRAM, SIBMAS, SEFER and CERCLE. In 2012 she founded and directed the scientific publishing series ‘Arti dello Spettacolo/Performing Arts’ and, since 2015, the online opens source journal http://www.artidellospettacolo-performingarts.com.
