BLADE addresses one of the most urgent challenges for contemporary literary and archival studies — the preservation, analysis, and interpretation of born-digital materials. The project treats each digital file as a strand of textual DNA, composed of hexadecimal "bases" whose ordered succession forms the structure of the work, and adopts the methodological tools of digital forensics — bitstream imaging, metadata extraction, file carving, hex analysis, environmental emulation — as instruments of literary interpretation.
BLADE — Born-digital Literary Archives DNA Exploration — PI: Emmanuela Carbé.
A reproducible workflow that adapts forensic procedures to philological inquiry: from imaging to emulation, from metadata to hexadecimal sequences.
Read more →BLADE is a Ca' Foscari SPIN project of the VeDPH (Ca' Foscari), in collaboration with EUTOPIA DigIn, Bit Philology (Universität Bern), and ALDiNa (AIUCD / CLARIN-IT).