DIGITAL ARCHIVISTICS

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
ARCHIVISTICA DIGITALE
Course code
FM0548 (AF:448926 AR:252130)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
M-STO/08
Period
4th Term
Where
VENEZIA
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The course aims to enable the student to acquire skills relating to the formation, management, conservation, use and exploitation of digital archives and digital descriptive resources.
At the end of the course, the student will acquire basic knowledge of theories, methods, legislation and tools concerning the following areas:

- training, management and conservation of document management systems;
- description of archives through the use of archival description software;
- digitization of archives;
- fruition and exploitation of archival descriptions and digitized archival resources.
Basic knowledge of elements, legislation and archival terminology.
The course will cover the following topics: digital document; electronic signatures; document management systems; conservation systems; archival description standards; software for archival description; digitization of archival heritage; fruition and exploitation of digitized archival resources; archival information systems and digital libraries.
Bibliography:

- PAOLA CARUCCI, MARIA GUERCIO, Manuale di archivistica (Nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2021. Limited to chapters 6 (Strumenti di ricerca. Descrizione, normalizzazione, automazione), 9 (Gli standard internazionali per la descrizione archivistica), 14 (Formazione e gestione di un sistema documentario digitale), 15 (Normativa di base per la gestione dei documenti della pubblica amministrazione), 16 (La conservazione dei documenti digitali).

Suggested text (optional in-depth study):

- MARIA GUERCIO, Archivistica informatica, Roma, Carocci, 2019.

In addition to the common bibliography, each student will have to choose and study the text of one of the three in-depth topics A, B and C:

A - Document management

- STEFANO PIGLIAPOCO, Guida alla gestione informatica dei documenti, Torre del Lago Puccici, Civita editoriale, 2020.


B - Archival description

- STEFANO VITALI, La descrizione degli archivi nell'epoca degli standard e dei sistemi informatici, in Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di Linda Giuva e Maria Guercio, Roma, Carocci, 2014, p. 179-209.

- STELLA DI FAZIO, Le ontologie, in Descrivere gli archivi al tempo di RIC-CM, a cura di Giorgia Di Marcantonio e Federico Valacchi, Macerata. EUM, 2018, p. 81-114.

- F. VALACCHI, I sistemi informativi archivistici tra locale, nazionale e internazionale, in Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di Linda Giuva e Maria Guercio, Roma, Carocci, 2014, p. 357-380


C - Digitization

STEFANO ALLEGREZZA (a cura di), La digitalizzazione del patrimonio culturale. Linee guida, standard, esperienze, Torre del Lago Puccini, Civita editoriale, 2021.

alternatively

NICOLA BARBUTI, La digitalizzazione dei beni documentali. Metodi, tecniche, buone prassi, Editrice Bibliografica, 2022.
The verification of learning takes place in two phases: during the practical applications and in the final exam, dedicated to the general themes of the course and the specific theme that the student chooses to deepen.
The course includes lectures and practical applications.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 20/03/2024