29424 - Seminars (1) (LM) (G. C)

Academic Year 2025/2026

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminars, students will acquire competences in interpreting specific topics related to philology, literature and history, or necessary to the creation and improvement of their background.

Course contents

PROGRAMME

The course consists of 15 hours of lectures with exercises (HTML and XML/TEI coding) and 15 hours of independent coding work.

The first part of the course will be devoted to a theoretical introduction to the topics listed below, while the second part will allow students to put the knowledge and skills acquired into practice by designing a coding model and producing a valid and well-formed XML/TEI file of a literary or critical text.

TOPICS

1. Paper and digital texts, from text to hypertext; 2. Paper and digital editions; 3. Case studies of digital editions: poetry and prose; 4. Case studies of digital editions: letters and comments; 5. The concept of encoding, markup languages (HTML, SGML, XML), DTD and XML; 6. The TEI vocabulary and the different possible levels of encoding: 7. The TEI vocabulary and the encoding of the apparatus; 8. Assignment and analysis of texts; 9-15. Markup exercises.

CERTIFICATE

Upon passing the final exam (marking of a text/commentary), students will receive a certificate of attendance proving their participation in the workshop and the achievement of 6 CFU credits for Activity F.

Readings/Bibliography

Testi/Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Letture consigliate:

P. Italia, Editing Duemila, Salerno, Roma, 2020.

T. Mancinelli-E. Pierazzo, Che cosa è l’edizione scientifica digitale, Carocci, Roma, 2019.

M. Zaccarello, Leggere senza libri, Cesati, Firenze, 2020.

T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, F. Tomasi, L'umanista digitale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010. (Introduzione, capp. 2-3). In alternativa si può consultare la verisone inglese: T. Numerico, D. Fiormonte, F. Tomasi, : [https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25504], Brooklyn, puntum books, 2015 (Introduction, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Conclusions)

SITOGRAPHY:

Guidelines Tei http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/, TEI by Examples (tutorial ed esercizi TEI) https://teibyexample.org/TBE.htm

Teaching methods

Lectures, PHP, screenings, materials posted on VIRTUALE.

Assessment methods

Methods of assessment and evaluation of learning

Oral interview aimed at assessing:

- knowledge and understanding of the topics covered during the course

- XML/TEI file of the text encoded according to the schema proposed during the lessons

- creation of an integrative or additional theoretical encoding schema

NB: the .xml file and the encoding model must be sent at least 7 days before the exam date.

Teaching tools

Teaching support tools

Materials available on Virtuale.

Digital tools presented during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia