DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LT656

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in PHILOLOGY, LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY TRADITIONS

Disciplinary Sector:

Library Management

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BRUNI FLAVIA

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge is required.

Objectives

Providing useful knowledge and tools to the humanist scholar, encouraging the acquisition of specialised professional skills and developing a critical awareness in the daily use of digital resources.

Contents

A first introductory part will be focused on the historical and conceptual link between computer science and the humanities. Building on these theoretical assumptions, the course will present methodologies, techniques and resources resulting from the application of computer science in different areas of the humanities.

Extended Syllabus

1. Computer Science for the Humanities or Digital Humanities? Introduction to the course
2. Information, representation and coding
3. History and logical architecture of the computer; the Turing machine
4. Hardware and software
5. Internet and world wide web
6. Creating a web page: HMTL and CMS (with lab)
7. Markup languages
8. Digital editions; XML/TEI encoding
9. Introduction to digital philology
10. Metadata and standards
11. Teaching
12. Digital storytelling
13. Virtual exhibitions
14. Licences and IIIF
15. AI and GPT
16. OCR, image matching and automatic transcription
17. Digital libraries
18. Information technology and cultural heritage: libraries, archives and museums (GLAM)
19. Databases
20. SBN
21. Europeana
22. The National Plan for the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
23. Digital preservation, sustainability and environment

Recommended Bibliography

- F. Ciotti – G. Roncaglia, Il mondo digitale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006, only the following parts (including the boxes, unless differently advertised): introduzione; capp. I (excluding the boxes at pp. 41-44); II; III; IV (excluding the box at pp. 106-107) up to p. 109 (‘Telecomunicazioni e computer’ included); V: only pp. 137-153 and 159-170; VI: only pp. 181-191 (up to ‘Dal reale al virtuale e ritorno’ to be excluded); VII; VIII: pp. 279-285, 288-298; IX: 321-325; X: 364-369, 373-386;

- F. Tomasi, Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche, Carocci 2008.

Additional, not mandatory reading suggestions will be provided during the course.

Students who could not attend the classes will also add:

- Tito Orlandi, Informatica testuale: teoria e prassi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.

It will also be possible to agree on other texts for the exam on the basis of specific interests.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with the aid of computer and multimedia/internet resources.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral interview; students who attended the classes might want to present the works they produced during the course.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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