INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

LET023

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2024/2025

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

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:

Basic IT skills. No previous courses or exams are required.

Objectives

Providing the theoretical basis for an exploration and exploitation that will enable the humanist scholar to make the most of digital resources and tools that are currently available, encouraging the acquisition of specific professional skills and developing critical awareness in the daily use of digital resources.

Contents

The course will provide a theoretical reference framework on the topics of digital humanities. Based on the historical and conceptual link between computer science and the humanities, digital resources and methodologies for work and research in several fields and of different types will be presented, to foster discussion on their issues and perspectives.

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
4. Hardware and software
5. Internet and world wide web
6. The language of the web: HTML
7. How to create a static web page (HMTL) and a dynamic web page (CMS), with lab
8. Markup languages
9. Metadata and standards
10. Virtual exhibitions and IIIF
11. Digital storytelling and public history
12. Artificial intelligence
13. OCR, image matching and automatic transcription
14. Databases, digital archives and digital libraries
15. Information technology and cultural heritage: libraries, archives and museums (GLAM)
16. SBN
17. 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 advised): 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, Roma, Carocci, 2008.

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

Other texts for the exam can be agreed upon on other on the basis of specific interests.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with the aid of computer and multimedia/internet resources. Some lectures will have a hands-on approach; there will also be an off-site visit for a more in-depth field study of the course content, and external speakers may be invited for specific classes and seminars.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral interview.

Contacts/More Information

Further information might be provided both in the class and through the FAD Moodle platform; students are therefore invited to subscribe to the course channel.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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