Digital History 2900-MZ-K4-ADASZ
1. Digital source criticism
2. Non-transparent interfaces
3. Structures of digital knowledge (data and metadata)
4. Structures of digital knowledge (data and metadata) II
5. Open science infrastructure
6. Open science infrastructure II
7. Natural language processing
8. Artificial intelligence in historical research
9. Digital Editions I
10. Digital Editions II
11. Digital documentation in archeology
12. Visual turn in history
13. The basics of Web Archiving
14. Discussion of student’s projects
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The student:
- is familiar with the basic trends in digital history and can critically define the term
- is critical of general statements about digital methods in historical research
- is able to identify useful digital solutions for his own research project
- knows the basics of semantic transcription of historical sources (TEI) and the principles of working with structured digital texts (XML)
- understands the basics of copyright in academic applications
- knows how to ensure link stability in scientific work footnotes and has basic knowledge of Web archives.
Bibliography
Cohen, D. J., & Rosenzweig, R. (2006). Digital history: A guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the web (Vol. 28). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Cohen, D. J., Frisch, M., Gallagher, P., Mintz, S., Sword, K., Taylor, A. M., ... & Turkel, W. J. (2008). Interchange: The promise of digital history. The Journal of American History, 95(2), 452-491.
Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todo Presner, Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities, The MIT Press, Cambridge 2012.
Brügger, N. (2012). When the present web is later the past: Web historiography, digital history, and internet studies. Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 102-117.
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