Learning objectives

Acquisition of: skills in building databases for the circulation and valorisation of the results of historical research; ability to use the main IT tools (web and applications) for historical, statistical, cartographic and lexicographical research and analysis.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The Course has no prerequisites

Program

The Course has no prerequisites

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Contents

The course will be held in the computer laboratory

1. History on line. Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources
2. Looking for Bibliographical Sources in the internet: online catalogs (OPAC)
3. Looking for articles in review: how? where?
4. Primary Sources. From electronic catalogs to digital sources
4. A free online slavery database
5. Zotero, that is: a software to organize and to share your research
6. Cloud file sharing and storage; doing history and team-work
7. About copy-right
8. Transkribus: the platform able to read manuscripts
9. Steps to building a website
9. A fully digital search– final written report

Attending and Non attending students will be asked also to write a report/paper about a search path based on digital tools, focusing on an historical subject selected by the professor

Learning assessment procedures

The exam is oral and computer based

Evaluation criteria

The final evaluation is expressed by a positive formula (“passed”/“approvato”) or by a negative one (“not passed”/“non approvato”)

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final evaluation is expressed by a positive formula (“passed”/“approvato”) or by a negative one (“not passed”/“non approvato”)

Exam language

italiano o (se richiesto) inglese