He is president of the Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD, the Italian Digital Humanities association), a former elected member in the TEI Consortium Technical Council, and a current member of the EADH (European Association of Digital Humanities) Executive Board. His scientific and research work covers various aspects and themes of Digital Humanities and literary studies, from both the theoretical and the practical point of view. Fabio Ciotti has been a scientific consultant for text encoding and technological infrastructures in several digital libraries and archives projects, most notably Biblioteca Italiana (Italian literary tradition, http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it) and DigilibLT (Late Latin tradition, http://www.digiliblt.unipmn.it/).