MODELLING AND VISUALIZING TEXTUAL DATA

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
MODELLING AND VISUALIZING TEXTUAL DATA
Course code
FM0486 (AF:448503 AR:285040)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
L-FIL-LET/08
Period
2nd Semester
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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In this course, students will create and publish online a digital edition of a text in several versions, and through this experience learn how to plan, analyze risks and factors leading to successful completion of project. In addition, the students will achieve a better understanding of the importance of data modeling and metadata in order to access, interchange data, and to publish on the Web.
In this course, students will learn how to plan, analyze risks and factors in which projects can be successfully published. In addition, the students will be able to understand the importance of data modeling and metadata in order to access, interchange data, and to publish on the Web.
Pre-requirements are basic knowledge of XML/TEI and the core web technologies of HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Choosing materials and planning strategies to make a workflow to create a digital edition using the Textual Communities environment. Familiarity with basic theories of what makes a digital edition. Gaining skills in gathering and processing original document images; creation of page-by-page digital transcripts; collation of different versions; creation of a stand-alone digital edition.

Data modeling and introduction of LOD and Semantic Web

IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

Extracting and Data visualization strategies
Jerome McGann “The rationale of HyperText”, 1993. http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html
Peter Robinson “Towards a theory of digital editions”, Variants 10, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/3233227/Towards_a_Theory_of_Digital_Editions
Peter Robinson “The concept of the work in the digital age”, Ecdotica 2013. https://www.academia.edu/9575974/The_Concept_of_the_Work_in_the_Digital_Age_published_version _
Patrick Sahle “What is a Scholarly Digital Edition?” In Digital Scholarly Editing, 2016. https://books.openedition.org/obp/3397?lang=en

Useful links (some specimen editions)
Dante’s Commedia, edited by Prue Shaw. Second edition. www.dantecommedia.it
Darwin’s Origin of Species, edited by Barbara Bordalejo. http://darwin-online.org.uk/Variorum/
Shelley-Godwin Archive, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/
1. Final oral exam;
2. Class discussions;
3. Activities during the course.
4. Creation of a digital edition

Attendance is strongly recommended. Non-attending students should contact the teacher.
Classes with activities in and outside the class, and interaction between professors and students. Hands-on creation and publication of a digital edition.
Attendance is strongly recommended.
Materials and resources will be made available through the Moodle e-learning platform.
English
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 23/02/2024