19473 - Information Technology and Arts Organizations

Learning outcomes

This course is an attempt to inform about Information Systems and Technologies as used within arts organizations and in cultural heritage processing. Specifically, the student is expected to confront in a knowledgeable way the development of information technology with emphasis on new media, cultural and environmental goods. In particular, the student is expected to learn about the following topics:

• Media, multimedia and multimedia systems;

• Coding of images, video and audio signals – compression;

• Networks, mobile technologies;

• Web, web 2.0, html and xml;

• Data, metadata and data bases;

• Production and distribution of multimedia content;

• Devices and interfaces to access cultural content –usability.

Course contents

1. Introduction on Information Technologies (IT) and Cultural Heritage (CH)

1. The role of Cultural Heritage;

2. Safeguarding and management;

3. Context aware multimedia guides;

4. The role of technology;

2. Basics on Computers, Networks and Internet

1. Reference model: the Von Neumann Machine;

2. Networking;

3. Cloud computing.

3. WWW

1. HTML, XML and CSS;

2. How to create your own blog.

4. Social Network

1. Web 2.0;

2. Facebook, Twitter and Intagram;

3. How social networks can help us in Arts and Events organization.

5. Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding

1. Overview;

2. How to plan and launch a crowdsourcing project;

3. Find the right platform for your needs;

4. Promote your project and attract the right audience.

6. Digital images and audio

1. Digital Images;

2. Digital audio;

3. Storage and transport of digital information.

7. Databases

1. Design databases;

2. Entities, attributes and relations;

3. Primary key and foreign key, data domain, query language (SQL);

4. Examples using Access DBMS.

Teaching methods

Classes are supported by Power Point slides. During the course will be given some seminars and demos.

Assessment methods

1. Assessments during the course;

2. A multiple-choice test;

3. Public presentation of the project work results.

Teaching tools

AMS Campus will be used as institutional repository of teaching materials.

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Puglisi