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Franco NICCOLUCCI received a degree in Mathematics from the University of Florence in 1970. After being Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa, he became Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence in 1974, where he taught until 2007. He was also the Director of the STARC -Science and Technology in the Archaeology Center of the Cyprus Institute (CY). He is an expert in Informatics and Multimedia applied to the valorization and preservation of Cultural Heritage and founder of VAST-LAB, a research lab located at PIN in Prato, Italy. With this lab he coordinated several EU-funded projects, the latest beign the ARIADNE and PARTHENOS projects. He has authored several books and over 100 papers on digital heritage, and has chaired a number of international conferences on the subject. He was the chair of CAA2004 and founder of the VAST conference series in which he co-chaired the 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011 and 2012 editions.

Roberto SCOPIGNO is Research Director at CNR-ISTI with 30 years of experience on 3D graphics (3D digitization, visualization, geometry processing) and its application to the Cultural Heritage domain. He is author of more than 200 international papers, with Google Scholar h-index 45 and more than 9500 citations. He participated with several EU and national research projects concerned with ICT and Cultural Heritage. Roberto sserved in the Eurographics Association (served as General Chair 2009-2010), was Chief Editors of international Journals (Computer Graphics Forum and ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage) and was the organizer of several international events (Eurographics'99, Eurographics2008, Digital Heritage2015, CAA2015).

Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Evry-Val d'Essonne and researcher at the research laboratory Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie et de la Société (IDHE.S, UMR 8533). Both historian industrial production techniques, expert in visual sources and expert in the use of 3D modeling tools for historical interpretation.

Senior Research at INRIA, France and director genral of DARIAH. He carries out research on the modeling of semi-structured documents, with a specific emphasis on texts and linguistic resources. He has also been active in standardization activities within the TEI consortium and ISO and is now chairing ISO committee TC 37 on terminology and language resources. He is also contributing to the definition of the scientific information policy of INRIA.