Digital Education and Economic Opportunities: The Humanities as a Digital Science – An Interview with Michele Petochi, Managing Director for EPFL in Venice.

Inside the Archivio di Stato di Venezia (©DHLab-EPFL)

Going digital is not simply bringing new tools for transmitting and diffusing knowledge – it also transforms its very production. As everyday life is increasingly digitalized, what are the possibilities and challenges offered by big data and how do they become sources of knowledge? How to offer traditional resources such as archives a new, accessible life? These are some of the questions addressed by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Michele Petochi tells us more about it. Written by Ruth Theus Baldassarre, STC Rome