Pietro Maria Liuzzo

Pietro Maria Liuzzo is a Senior Information Scientist at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. His work bridges digital technologies with humanities research, focusing on epigraphy, manuscript traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and open scholarly workflows.

• Doctoral background in Ancient Greek Historiography (FGrHist 104 digital edition)
• Former Networking Coordinator for Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (University of Heidelberg)
• Tech Lead for Beta maṣāḥǝft project (2016–2019) and TraCES project (2014–2019) at Universität Hamburg

Liuzzo's research explores standards and formalisms (XML, IIIF, DTS, RDF) for digital asset management, emphasizing open data, collaborative editing, and visualization. He has contributed to modeling ancient documents and manuscripts through semantic web technologies and linked open data frameworks.

His recent publications focus on API development for TEI data, manuscript linking strategies across Coptic/Ethiopian/Syriac domains, and data integration challenges. He advocates for open science and reusable digital infrastructures in humanities research.