“Digital Humanities” (DH = Digital Humanities) is a field of research and teaching that has spread throughout the world over the last twenty years. Its origin is mainly practical: the creation of corpora, thesauri and electronic archives of documents, quantitative analysis of texts, stylometry, etc. But with the spread of the Web everything has radically changed: knowledge, not only humanistic, has moved to the network, which has become the privileged and pervasive access point for any activity, including research. What are the consequences of this phenomenon for the humanities and social sciences? The aim of the laboratory is twofold: on the one hand, to try to answer this question, by critically analyzing the main tools of the network (from infrastructures to search engines); on the other, remaining faithful to the applicative nature of DH, to provide students with an overview of the methodologies and tools most used today in digital humanities research.
Curriculum
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Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Programme
In the first part, we will briefly trace the history of the Digital Humanities (known in Italy as “Informatica Umanistica”) as it developed in Europe and the United States and then in the rest of the world. The purpose of this section is to outline the main theoretical and practical aspects of DH. Subsequently, we will introduce some specific research methods, such as the methodology for the digital encoding of texts or the use of artificial intelligence for research. In the first case, students will complete an exercise in HTML and XML encoding, and in the second, they will be guided through an experiment using AI for research.Core Documentation
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Attendance
This is a hands-on workshop and attendance is strongly recommended. teacher profile teaching materials
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Programme
In the first part, we will briefly trace the history of the Digital Humanities (known in Italy as “Informatica Umanistica”) as it developed in Europe and the United States and then in the rest of the world. The purpose of this section is to outline the main theoretical and practical aspects of DH. Subsequently, we will introduce some specific research methods, such as the methodology for the digital encoding of texts or the use of artificial intelligence for research. In the first case, students will complete an exercise in HTML and XML encoding, and in the second, they will be guided through an experiment using AI for research.Core Documentation
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Attendance
This is a hands-on workshop and attendance is strongly recommended. teacher profile teaching materials
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Programme
In the first part, we will briefly trace the history of the Digital Humanities (known in Italy as “Informatica Umanistica”) as it developed in Europe and the United States and then in the rest of the world. The purpose of this section is to outline the main theoretical and practical aspects of DH. Subsequently, we will introduce some specific research methods, such as the methodology for the digital encoding of texts or the use of artificial intelligence for research. In the first case, students will complete an exercise in HTML and XML encoding, and in the second, they will be guided through an experiment using AI for research.Core Documentation
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Attendance
This is a hands-on workshop and attendance is strongly recommended. teacher profile teaching materials
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Programme
In the first part, we will briefly trace the history of the Digital Humanities (known in Italy as “Informatica Umanistica”) as it developed in Europe and the United States and then in the rest of the world. The purpose of this section is to outline the main theoretical and practical aspects of DH. Subsequently, we will introduce some specific research methods, such as the methodology for the digital encoding of texts or the use of artificial intelligence for research. In the first case, students will complete an exercise in HTML and XML encoding, and in the second, they will be guided through an experiment using AI for research.Core Documentation
Both attending and non-attending students are required to study Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, and F. Tomasi, "L’umanista digitale", Il Mulino, 2010.
A series of handouts will be provided during the course, and other materials and texts will be available on the Moodle platform.
Non-attending students must agree on a specific program with the instructor.
Attendance
This is a hands-on workshop and attendance is strongly recommended.