ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Course code
CM0579 (AF:354788 AR:185417)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
1st Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The course aims at providing an overview of quantitative methods and data analysis techniques for cultural heritage.
At the end of the course the student will be able to identify and apply quantitative methods for the analysis of complex and unstructured data by means of the R language.
Basic computing knowledge (basic functions of the operating system, web browsing, e-mail, Office working suites, search engines).
- Cultural Content in the Digital Age
- Introduction to the R language
- Continuous and Categorical Data
- Multivariate Analysis
- Advanced Graphics
- Networks
- Geospatial Data
- Image Data
- Network Theory

(This outline may be subject to change.)
- Slides and lecture notes.
- ARNOLD, Taylor; TILTON, Lauren. Humanities data in R. Exploring networks, geospatial data, images, and text. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2015
- Alfredo M. Ronchi. eCulture: Cultural Content in the Digital Age. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009
The final exam (oral) consists of theoretical questions about the course content, and of the presentation of a project previously agreed with the instructor.
The course aims at providing students with a solid base of key concepts for the analysis of data (e.g., texts, images) in the field of cultural heritage.
English
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 22/02/2021