85578 - Seminars (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

The seminars are designed to introduce students to some specialized aspects of the training. The seminars are related to the deepening of advanced topics, in particular taught by specialists or professionals of some disciplines of the learning activities. The seminars will deal with the themes connected with the areas of learning: computer science; literary, linguistic, historical/cultural and related to the arts in the digital context; transversal: economics, law and communication.

Course contents

The seminar aims to present, through some concrete experiences, the world of digital publishing and the changes introduced in the traditional editorial workflow by digital book, e-books and online expansions.

Through six editorial case studies taken from some of the most important Italian publishers (CLUEB, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura /Bitesonline, Mondadori Education, Il Mulino, OpenEdition, Zanichelli), students will have an updated panorama of digital publishing, both in terms of editing and of publication and distribution. The second part of the seminar will be dedicated to learn Adobe-InDesign layout program, on which participants will carry out a layout exercise, to obtain the eligibility to the seminar.

The Seminar consists in 15 two-hours meetings.

Contents: 1. Introduction to the Course: digital publishing and workflow in the publishing house; 2-6 meetings with representatives of the publishing houses stakeholders of DHDK Course (CLUEB, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura /Bitesonline, Mondadori Education, Il Mulino, OpenEdition, Zanichelli); 7-14 Adobe-InDesign Exercises; 15. Conclusions and preparation of the final Exercise.

The seminar will be activated with a minimum of 10 participants.

Readings/Bibliography

Suggested readings:

John Bryant, The Fluid Text, A Theory of Revision and Editing for Book and Screen, Michigan Publishing, 2002.

https://www.press.umich.edu/12020/fluid_text

E-publishing and digital libraries: legal and organizational issues, [edited by] Ioannis Iglezakis, Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou, Sarantos Kapidakis. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6401537

Academic e-books: publishers, librarians, and users, edited by Suzanne M. Ward, Robert S. Freeman, and Judith M. Nixon, Purdue University Press, 2016.

Teaching methods

Lectures with php, video, workshop in the first half of the lessons (15h), and laboratory/workshop sessions of the second half (15h).

We will use digital platform, php and audio materials available on http://iol.unibo.it and video lessons.

Assessment methods

At the end of the course, participants must create the layout of a text with Adobe-InDesign and deliver it ten days before the examination for evaluation.

Teaching tools

Digital platform, audio recording of the lessons, Php and didactic materials available on http://iol.unibo.it, and innovative Digital Scholarly Training video lessons.

Links to further information

https://corsi.unibo.it/2cycle/DigitalHumanitiesKnowledge

Office hours

See the website of Paola Maria Carmela Italia