Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:
Laurea in Lingue e letterature per l'editoria e i media digitali - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
3° Year activated in the A.Y. 2022/2023
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
1st foreign literature
2nd foreign literature
Philology related to 1st or 2nd foreign language
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1st foreign language
2nd foreign language
Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Introduction to Digital Humanities (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S008106
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Period
I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 28, 2020 al Jan 9, 2021.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to present students with knowledge on the tools and techniques at the foundation of Digital Humanities, in particular about digital scholarly editions and computational analysis of texts. At the end of the course students: - will know the main phases of the realization of a digital scholarly edition, and will acquire the practical skills to encode humanistic texts; - will know the main tasks for the automatic processing of written text, and will be able to use some of the main tools that support them; - will know the main methodologies and tools for the computational analysis of texts, and will be able to apply them to textual examples to be analyzed.
Program
The course will be given both on-site in classroom and in live streaming. Video-recordings of the lectures will be provided on the University e-Learning platform (Moodle).
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Introduction to Computer Science: Information Theory, Algorithms and Languages, Computer architecture
Internet & Web
Web page creation: HTML & CSS
XML Metalanguage
Digital Humanities and Philology: Digital Scholarly Edition [Dr. Anna Cappellotto]
TEI and text encoding
OCR: Optical Character Recognition [Dr. Stefano Bazzaco]
RegEx: Regular Expressions and their usage
Natural Language Processing
Distant reading: Introduction and usage of Voyant
Sentiment Analysis for Distant Reading [Dr. Simone Rebora]
Stylometry [Dr. Simone Rebora]
Materials and resources will be given out during the course to support the lessons, and will be uploaded on the course's Moodle page.
In addition to the suggested textbook, the following resources are recommended as supplementary materials:
- Topic: Digital Humanities and Philology: Digital Scholarly Edition
Patrick Sahle, “What is a Scholarly Digital Edition?”, in E. Pierazzo & M. Driscoll (eds), Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, Open Book Publishers 2016, pp. 19-40
URL: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-238-7/ch2.xhtml
- Topic: TEI and text encoding
Open access video course "Digital Scholarly Editions" on the #dariahTeach teaching and training platform
URL: https://teach.dariah.eu/course/view.php?id=32
- Topic: OCR: Optical Character Recognition
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition, NULab – Northeastern University, 2018
URL: https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m043p093w?datastream_id=content
- Topic: Topic modelling & Stylometry
Fabio Ciotti. 2017. “Modelli e metodi computazionali per la critica letteraria: lo stato dell’arte.” In B. Alfonzetti, T. Cancro, V. Di Iasio, E. Pietrobon (a cura di). L’Italianistica oggi: ricerca e didattica. Roma: Adi editore, pp. 1-11.
URL: http://www.italianisti.it/upload/userfiles/files/Ciotti.pdf
For those interested in further exploring the topics of the course:
INFORMATICA UMANISTICA 2/ED
Marco Lazzari
McGraw-Hill, 2014
ISBN: 9788838668555
https://univr.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990003784900205791&context=L&vid=39UVR_INST:39UVR_VU1&search_scope=Aleph_SP&tab=Aleph_slot&lang=it
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Francesca Tomasi | Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche (Edizione 1) | Carocci | 2008 | 9788843043033 |
Examination Methods
Attendance and student contribution to class is strongly encouraged.
There is no difference in the program, materials and examination between attending and non-attending students
The exam will be written, consisting mainly of multiple choice questions (with at most one / two open-ended questions). It is administered in computerised form (in a computer-equipped room or online). The online mode is however guaranteed for all students who request it in the 2020/21 academic year.