LABORATORY - DH mod A

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
LABORATORY - DH mod A
Course code
ECC058 (AF:317161 AR:171852)
Modality
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Istituto d`eccellenza
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
Annual
Course year
3
Where
VENEZIA
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This course takes the form of a laboratory, with programming activities, individual contributions, collective discussions and exercises that culminate in a project completed by one or two students on a chosen discipline of the Digital Humanities which concludes the path of the previous two years. The project, developed under the guidance of the course teacher, should be aimed at creating practical "DH methodologies and technology" applications/resources in one of the Humanities disciplines:

Archaeology
Art History
Classics
History
Linguistics
Literary Studies
Music
Media Studies
Philosophy
Religious Studies

where DH methodologies include:

digitization (encoding and cleansing)
digital text analysis
data modeling
data visualization
Geo-referencing
AI and knowledge generation

The project should pay attention to the work flows and tools used in the given discipline and make use of two or more DH methodologies.

Students will be assessed 20% on class assignments, 40% on final project and 40% on final oral exam.

The class focuses on discovering research work flows, digital information/knowledge structures and digital tools used in humanities disciplines. The class sessions with be run using group discussion, presentation and tool demonstration by professor and students
Definitive programme.