DIGITAL ARCHIVES

1) Knowledge and understanding: Acquisition of tools for the knowledge and understanding of different kind sof archive  and methodologies for the creation, management and communication of digital archives. The topics of document management, design, conservation and accessibility of native digital archives and the topics of digitization projects in relation to archival information systems and methods of processing and restitution on the web, will be covered during the lessons.

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The course will enable students to organize, manage and communicate digital and digitized funds and to enhance and describe documentary sources in interdisciplinary contexts.

3) Autonomy of judgment: Acquisition of critical and interpretative skills that will allow a methodological framing of the topics in the scientific context; skills in identifying and selecting archival and bibliographic sources and tools, and the ability to recognize good and bad practices.

4) Communication skills: acquisition of communication skills on the topics through the specific vocabulary and appropriate descriptive methods, in an interdisciplinary dialogue.

5) Learning ability: acquisition of a method based on the topics critical elaboration and on the ability to orient itself among the knowledge tools, both analogical and digital.

Traditional lectures and lectures in archives and digitalization centers.

Attendance is not compulsory.

-  Basic concepts for an archival view

-  Analogue, hybrid and digital archives

- Description and models for the representation of archival heritage

-  Digitisation projects: restitution and accessibility

-  Archival information systems, portals and databases

-  Automation and Artificial Intelligence at the service of archival        heritage

-  Long-term digital preservation

-  Digital aggregations and participatory heritage

-  Institutional memories, collective memories, personal memories.

-  Case studies: good management practices in the digital processing of analog fonds for cultural heritage

-       Giorgetta Bonfiglio-Dosio, Sistemi di gestione documentale, Padova, CLEUP, 2024 (pp. 135)

-       Federico Valacchi, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice bibliografica, 2022 (pp. 180)

-       Federico Valacchi, L’archivio aumentato. Tempi e modi di una digitalizzazione critica, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2024 (pp. 170)

-       Anna Maria Marras, Biblioteche, archivi, musei: i nuovi confini digitali, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2024 (pp. 105-124)

-       Gino Roncaglia, L’architetto e l’oracolo. Forme digitali del sapere da Wikipedia a ChatGPT, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2023 (pp. 123-145)

-       Concetta Damiani, Gli archivi dell’arte. Gestione e rappresentazione tra analogico e digitale, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2023 (cap. 1-2, pp. 82)

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.