| Week |
Subject |
Description |
| 17/01/12 |
Introduction: Elena Pierazzo |
- Aims and objectives of the course; topics to be covered; typical applications; what are
the Digital Humanities?
- Review of selected Digital Humanities project web sites.
The position of digital
humanities within scholarship.
- Academic use of the web; Critical evaluation of material found online: clues of
authority, language, competence and style; authorial affiliation, site affiliation; design
issues; external links and bibliographic pointers.
- Understanding URLs and error recovery
|
24/01/12
31/01/12 |
Markup Languages: Charlotte Tupman |
- Introduction to Markup Languages
- Introduction to XML and its role within Digital Humanities: text analysis and simple
markup
- Introduction to DTD; how to make XML useful
- Text Encoding Initiative
|
07/02/12
14/02/12 |
Publishing on the web: Beatriz Caballero |
- Introduction to creating web pages using simple XHTML; use of basic XHTML editor; summary
of design issues; use of images; creating style sheets with CSS.
- Document analysis.
- Site-maintenance.
- Exercise: construction of a two-page Web site; elementary use of FTP. (By the end of
this unit each student will have constructed and uploaded pages their own Web site.)
|
Reading Week
|
| 28/02/12 |
Analysing text: Eleonora Litta |
- The concordance: its history and applications; the basics of language study; interactive
concordance software; Key Word in Context; collocations and frequencies; dealing with a text
corpus too large to read in a conventional way.
- Exercise: application of basic techniques to large corpora of English.
|
| 06/03/12 |
Graphical Analysis of data; Manipulation of Images: Eleonora Litta, Beatriz Caballero |
- Tag Clouds
- Using graphs and charts to summarise and analyse
humanities data.
- The impact of images;
Images as a research tool
- Digital images, what they are and what you can do with them
Image types
- Image-editing
|
13/03/12
20/03/12
|
Databases for the Humanities: TBA |
- What are databases and how are they used in the humanities?
- Review of the flat-file
tabular model; introduction to the relational model; tables, keys, relationships; queries.
- Construction and use of a simple relational database; controlled vocabulary.
- Exercise: From design to implementation; construction of several queries, evaluation of
results.
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| 27/03/12 |
Creation of digital resources; conclusions: Elena Pierazzo |
- The possibilities offered by digitisation techniques for the creation of archive and online
resources; building digital resources from a variety of humanities source materials.
- Drawing everything together and re-examining the role of Digital Humanities.
Explanation of final piece of assessed work.
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