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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents In the context of the teaching of Digital humanities it will be presented the theorical, methodological and technical bases of information science and their application to the field of humanistic disciplines, paying a particular attention to the procedures for formalising information.
Extended Syllabus - Introduction to information theory.
- Logical structure of computers.
- Hardware and software.
- Word processing.
- Structure of Internet and Web.
- Search engines.
- Structure of databases.
- Information encoding.
- Introduction to the xml/TEI language
- Collections of databases.
Recommended Bibliography Both attending and non-attending students have to observe the following program.
Mandatory handbook.
- Francesca TOMASI, Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche, Roma: Carocci editore, 2008 (any reprint).
Recommended text.
- Daniele MAROTTA - Iolanda VENTURA - Marco FORLIVESI, Manuale per la preparazione dei componenti costitutivi della base dati di DArIL, Versione 2012-10-31, http://www.daril.eu/fileadmin/res/Manuale.pdf .
Teaching Methods Classroom lectures, seminars, practicals.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
- Assessment method: oral exam.
- The oral exam has the form of questions asked by the examiner to the candidate.
- The candidate will be evaluated on the quantity and precision of the knowledge that he is expected to have learned, on his ability to expose it.
- The evaluation is expressed in a grade out of thirty.
- Students who wish it can take the exam in English.
Contacts/More Information Receiving ordinarily takes place in the days and times indicated in the document published on the website of the Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences. Nonetheless, it is strongly recommended to ask for an appointment by e-mail, briefly presenting the question to be submitted to the teacher. The teacher is available to agree to reception hours different from the standard ones.