75876 - Digital Humanities

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Fabio Silari
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: INF/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Library and Archive Science (cod. 8838)

Learning outcomes

The course provides the basic knowledge to address problems of knowledge representation using appropriate computer tools of analysis. The student at the end of the course knows the theoretical, methodological and technical issues relating to the computerized processing of texts within the activities of humanistic character; knows the elements of the legal regulation on the processing of digital objects and their related technologies. Knows how to set up and implement databases and digital archives.

Course contents

1 - Overview of international and national experiences

·      History: Technological innovation and Digital Humanities

·      Debate: Text and the computer

·      Present and Future: Digital Culture and Knowledge Networks

2 -Legislative framework on processing of digital objects
3 - Objectives and Software:

·      The acquisition of texts and images

·      Design, Database Development and digital archives

·      Publishing content online

Readings/Bibliography

Teresa Numerico, Domenico Fiormonte, Francesca Tomasi, "L'umanista digitale", Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010, 240 pp.


Teaching methods

Lectures and labs

Assessment methods

Oral exam only for students who have attended the lessons:

Students who have not followed the lessons:

Teaching tools

Classes are held in the computer lab.
The e-learning platform will provide integrated support to the course teaching.

Links to further information

https://elearning-cds.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=4083

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Silari