Course: Cultural heritage in the digital age

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Course title Cultural heritage in the digital age
Course code KFI/KDDHB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kaše Vojtěch, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introductory information 2. Digitization of cultural data 3. Cultural spatial data I 4. Cultural spatial data II 5. Cultural text data I 6. Cultural text data II 7. Digital edition 8. Licensing of cultural data 9. FAIR data principles 10. Data repositories for cultural data 11. Cultural data and citizen science 12. Quantitative analysis of digital cultural data 13. Final summary of the course

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 51 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 12 hours per semester
  • Team project (50/number of students) - 15 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to characterize digital humanities
to list and describe the basic methods of study in the field of digital humanities
to explain the relevance of digital approaches to the study of cultural data in today's world
Skills
to search for professional literature in professional sources
to search different types of cultural data in online databases
to use comprehensively English-language literature on digital humanities
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to describe the different needs of working with cultural data in a digital context
to explain FAIR data principles and their relevance to cultural data
to list the standard steps in the process of digitizing and publishing cultural data
Skills
to process cultural spatial data according to established standards
to process cultural text data according to common standards
to critically evaluate specific examples of digital cultural data processing
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Skills
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Students' portfolio
Skills demonstration
Competences
Lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Skills demonstration
Students' portfolio
Seminar
assessment methods
Knowledge
Group presentation at a seminar
Continuous assessment
Project
Kolokvium
Combined exam
Skills
Combined exam
Group presentation at a seminar
Continuous assessment
Project
Kolokvium
Competences
Combined exam
Group presentation at a seminar
Continuous assessment
Project
Kolokvium
Recommended literature
  • Bodenhamer, David J.; Corrigan, John; Harris, Trevor M. The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-253-22217-6.
  • BURDICK, Anne, Johanna DRUCKER, Peter LUNENFELD, Todd Samuel PRESNER a Jeffrey T. SCHNAPP. Digital_humanities. Praha : Academia, 2019. ISBN 978-80-200-2865-5.
  • BURNARD, Lou. What Is the Text Encoding Initiative?: How to Add Intelligent Markup to Digital Resources. Marseille : OpenEdition Press, 2014. ISBN 9782821834606.
  • Clivaz, Claire; Dilley, Paul; Hamidović, David. Ancient worlds in digital culture. 2016. ISBN 978-90-04-32247-9.
  • Schreibman, Susan; Siemens, Raymond George,; Unsworth, John. A new companion to digital humanities. This edition first published. 2016. ISBN 978-1-118-68064-3.
  • VINCENT, Matthew L., Victor Manuel LOPEZ-MENCHERO BENDICHO, Marinos IOANNIDES, and Thomas E. LEVY. Heritage and Archaeology in the Digital Age: Acquisition, Curation, and Dissemination of Spatial Cultural Heritage Data. Cham : Springer, 2017. ISBN 9783319653709.


Study plans that include the course
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