B8106 - Information Science and Cultural Heritage (LM)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course aims to introduce the issue of organizing knowledge in archives and libraries, providing also a theoretical and practical overview of digital methods for the encoding, analysis, and semantic representation of texts (literary and not). In particular at the end of the course the students will be able to: use the standards of the domain for data description; manage the practices oriented to the enrichment of data through semantic strategies (ontologies and controlled vocabularies); create complex metadata for digital objects in the cultural heritage domain; create, manipulate, query, organise and disseminate electronic documents in digital text collections.

Contenuti

The course is organized in two modules.

Module 1

The module wants to focus on three strictly related topics:

• the study of international standards in the (G)LAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum) domain (metadata element sets and value vocabularies);
• the reflection on the concept of KO (Knowledge Organization) and in particular on the role of ontologies as conceptual models;
• the analysis of semantic (digital) activities in (G)LAM through KO methods.

In particular the course will give to students the skills for creating LOD (Linked Open Data) in the (G)LAM domain.

Module 2

The module offers a gentle introduction to problems, approaches, and technologies for encoding, representing, organizing, and manipulating knowledge.

At the end of the module students:

• are aware of theoretical and practical aspects relevant to text encoding (XML/TEI);
• have acquired all the required skills to produce a machine-readable text (XML and HTML);
• can annotate and extract structured data from encoded texts;
• can manipulate text and semi-structured data via programming languages (e.g. XSLT, Python);
• can transform data into several formats and representations (e.g. HTML, RDF, JSON),
• can produce Linked Open Data.

Testi/Bibliografia

Students are required to read, before attending the course: DH101, an Introduction to Digital Humanities (the pdf is available on Virtuale).

Module 1

For the preparation for the final examination, students are required to read:

• A BOOK. Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool. <http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ >;
• A GUIDEBOOK. LiAM. Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook (version 0.99). <http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/tmp/guidebook.pdf >;
• A PAPER ON KO. Birger Hjørland. Knowledge organization (KO), 2016.
  <http://www.isko.org/cyclo/knowledge_organization >;
  
• A sample of a PROJECT on LODLAM. Marilena Daquino, Francesca Mambelli, Silvio Peroni, Francesca Tomasi, Fabio Vitali. Enhancing semantic expressivity in the cultural heritage domain: exposing the Zeri Photo Archive as Linked Open Data, 2017. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01188 >.

Module 2

Lecture notes will be freely available from a dedicated GitHub repository [https://github.com/marilenadaquino/tesr_dhdk] before the course starts (please check this page before the beginning of the course for further information).

Slides and any additional material will be made available a few days before each lecture in the same repository.

Suggested readings are provided during classes.

Metodi didattici

Lectures and hands-on classes.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The exam consists in a project to be developed and presented during an oral colloquim. Specs (in pills) are:

1. Gather information on a collection of at least ten items related to a topic and establish relationships among the objects, enriching the description of your items;

2. One of the collected items must a text, for which you must provide: A XML/TEI document (a sample if too long); A XML to HTML transformation (python and/or XSLT) and a HTML document; A XML/TEI to RDF transformation (python) and a RDF dataset;

3. Create an ontology to describe items and relations and produce the documentation of the design phases (theoretical model, conceptual model, ontology);

4. Metadata of all items must be transformed to RDF with python (according to your ontology);

5. A RDF dataset for each item and for the collection must be provided;

6. Develop the website presenting the whole project (documentation and files).

Students are asked to organise themselves in team for designing the project (max 3 people).

The personal contribution of each member of the group, and the personal knowledge of the course subjects, will be assessed during the oral colloquium.

The project will be based on guidelines that will be discussed during the course and will be available on Virtuale.

Not attending students (students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending) will be also evaluated on the contents of the readings/bibliography.

The method used for the assessment will be based on the following parameters:

• Ability to choose an appropriate topic for the project (15%)
• Use of a tecnical language related to the domain (25%)
• Correctness of the implementation (25%)
• Knowledge about models, schemas and languages (25%)
• Completeness of the required levels of the project in relation to the guidelines (10%)

91-100% will lead to a excellent final grade
71-90% will lead to a good final grade
51-70% will lead to a sufficient/fair grade.
<50% will lead to a failure in passing the exam

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Classes are held in a classroom equipped with personal computers connected to the Intranet and Internet.

Students who require specific services and adaptations to teaching activities due to a disability or specific learning disorders (SLD), must first contact the appropriate office: https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Francesca Tomasi

Consulta il sito web di Marilena Daquino