11602 - Computer Science for Archive Keeping

Learning outcomes

The course provides the disciplinary, technical-informational knowledge for the proper management and retention of documentary systems, with reference to digital archives and hybrid management, and develops the attitudes and knowledge to manage processes within the scope of the networks. The student knows the principles of specific computer applications and processes within the network; The management aspects of the transition to the IT archive. Develop and manage quality, efficiency and efficiency policies; How to manage and maintain the security of documentary data.

Course contents

Managing and storing information is a strategic requirement for public and private organizations.

The IT archive course, through a multidisciplinary approach, analyzes the state of the art and the future prospects of digital archives. It addresses the general principles and fundamental lines of computer archivistics, with reference to the instrumental and institutional aspects: from the analysis of the birth of computer science applied to the archives up to its doctrinal and scientific evolution.

It pursues the objective of showing a general overview of computer science and its application to archivistics and providing the student with the tools that enable him to acquire critical skills in approaching individual software and management programs.

It is intended to offer the students theoretical, methodological and basic practical guidance for the understanding of the issues related to the training, management and preservation of archives in a digital environment, not excluding those arising from digital migration of historical archives originating from Traditional media, for the purpose of their use through computer networks.

Provides disciplinary, technical-informational knowledge for the proper management and retention of documentary systems, with reference to digital archives and hybrid management, and develops the attitudes and knowledge to manage processes within the networks.

The student knows the principles of specific computer applications and processes within the network; The management aspects of the transition to the computer archive. Develop and manage quality, efficiency and efficiency policies; How to manage and maintain the security of documentary data.

List of topics covered:

Definition and analysis of computer and computer archive concepts
The computerized archive: issues, solutions, national and international projects
Standard and computer archives
Network resources for archival research
Analysis of the main software for the management of computerized archives
The computer archive: archival legislation (analysis of the Digital Administration Code)
Document management and archive management
The computer protocol: the Titulus 97 experience
Conservation of digital archives (declarations related to document flows and their preservation)
The E-Idas Regulation

Readings/Bibliography

Mandatory prerequisite for the attendance rate is the study before the beginning of the course of the following text:

1. Romiti Antonio, Archivistica generale. Primi elementi, Lucca, Civita editore, 2011.

Exam texts

• Pigliapoco Stefano, Progetto archivio digitale. Metodologia, sistemi, professionalità, Lucca, Civita editore, 2016
• Valacchi Federico, Diventare archivisti. Competenze tecniche di un mestiere sul confine, Milano, Editrice Bibliografica, 2015
• Vitali Stefano, La descrizione archivistica al tempo degli standard e dei sistemi informatici, in Archivistica. Teorie, metodi, pratiche, a cura di Maria Guercio e Linda Giuva, Roma, Carocci, 2014, pp. 179-210
• Romiti Antonio, Archivi e outsourcing, Lucca, Civita editoriale, 2009.
• Martorano Annantonia, Gli archivi d'impresa dalla carta al digitale, in Archivi A. XII, n. 1, (gennaio-giugno 2017), pp. 47-78

For non-attending students, it is also necessary to study the following manual:

• Romiti Antonio, L'archivio di deposito nelle pubbliche amministrazioni, Lucca, Civita editore, 2008.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons; Visits to archives, documentation centers, and digital preservation agencies.

Teaching also takes place in 'blended learning' mode. Progressively in classroom lessons will appear at the e-learning (------) site for consolidating and deepening. Access to the e-learning page is possible with institutional credentials and a password that will be provided by the lecturer or that can be requested to the teacher by e-mail.

Assessment methods

A first step of verification, not compulsory, consists in carrying out exercises uploaded on the e-learning platform for a lifelong learning assessment.

The exam consists of an oral interview to evaluate the knowledge of the topics discussed during the lessons and the recommended bibliography, and the critical and methodological abilities matured by the student.

They will consider:

- The mastery of the contents

- The ability to synthesize and analyze topics and concepts

- The ability to know how to express it appropriately and with appropriate language to the subject matter.

You will feel that inadequate formative and / or inappropriate language will lead to vows that will not suffice. Lack of training, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliographic materials offered during the course will be evaluated negatively.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint examples and in-depth; Didactic visits to archives, documentation centers and digital preservation agencies.

Office hours

See the website of Annantonia Martorano