27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.B)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student acquires basic knowledge on the main digital tools for researching in the history of Medieval and Early Modern art. In particular, the student explores the use of Getty Scholars’ Workspace through also a specific teamwork.

Course contents

FROM ANALOGIC PHOTO ARCHIVES TO THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: MEDIEVAL PAINTING IN THE CARLO VOLPE FUND OF THE DIPARTIMENTO DELLE ARTI

The course includes a module of 30 hours equal to 6 CFU and intends to provide principal cataloguing criteria applied to Cultural Heritage, with particular attention to the cataloguing of photographs of works of art. The major portals of the sector will be examined, investigating the applied operating systems. The course also focuses on the design of a virtual exhibition. The workshop will allow a practical understanding of the possibilities offered by digital language towards heritage enhancement.

For this reason the course will be transformed into a workshop, which includes two steps. First the students, divided into groups, are asked to file the photographs (chosen by the teacher) of the Carlo Volpe Fund owned by the Dipartimento delle Arti.

As operating system, the teacher will present, and students will learn to use, the Free Open Source OMEKA, which is actually a CSM (Content Management System), developed in 2008 by the Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media of George Mason University, thanks also to the support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Supervised by the teacher, students will become familiar with the Back-end (data input) and corresponding out-put of the inserted data (Front-end). Next, they will pass to cataloguing through the set of Dublin Core metadata.

Thanks to the Metadata Item Type environment it will be possible to activate a specific description according to the ICCD standards. Moreover, with the support of the teacher, they will identify specific domain words (knowledge management) to be inserted through a tagging process.

Students will be encouraged to communicate among the various working teams through Getty Scholars' Workspace platform.

The second step includes the development of a Virtual Exhibition: criteria, text writing, uploading online.

Readings/Bibliography

• • Francesca Tomasi, Metodologie informatiche e discipline umanistiche, Bologna 2008
  • Domenico Fiormonte, Teresa Numerico, Francesca Tomasi, L’umanistica digitale, Bologna 2010
  • Carlo Volpe, La pittura del Trecento in Emilia e in Romagna, in: Carlo Volpe, La pittura nell’Emilia e in Romagna. Raccolta di scritti sul Trecento e Quattrocento, edited by Daniele Benati and Lucia Peruzzi, Modena 1993, 11-27;
  • Carlo Volpe, Gli affreschi duecenteschi delle arche sepolcrali di San Giacomo, in: Carlo Volpe, La pittura nell’Emilia e in Romagna. Raccolta di scritti sul Trecento e Quattrocento, edited by Daniele Benati and Lucia Peruzzi, Modena 1993, 28-32
  • Carlo Volpe, La pittura riminese del ’300, Milano 1965
  • Daniele Benati, Disegno del Trecento riminese, in: Il Trecento riminese. Maestri e botteghe tra Romagna e Marche, exhibition catalogue (Rimini, Museo della Città), edited by Daniele Benati, Milano 1995, 29-57
  • Il mestiere del conoscitore. Roberto Longhi, edited by Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari, Andrea Bacchi, Daniele Benati, Aldo Galli, Trento 2017, 9-89

  Other titles will be provided during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Lessons and Workshop with pc.

Assessment methods

A final exam is not required and the seminar provides a pass/no pass grade. Attendance is mandatory.

At the end of the workshop, students must demonstrate knowledge of main topics discussed in class, as well as mastering the methods and digital tools (Omeka, Getty Scholars' Workspace platform) acquired during the course.

Teaching tools

Images, texts, Omeka open source, Getty Scholars' Workspace platform, video, bibliography when needed.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Massaccesi