- Docente: Luca Roffia
- Credits: 4
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (cod. 0902)
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 tourism, 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 - Data, metadata and data bases - Production and distribution of multimedia content - Devices and interfaces to access cultural content usability.
Course contents
1. Introduction on digital space
1. The role of
Cultural Heritage
2. Safeguarding
and management
3. Context aware
multimedia guides
4. The role of
technology
2. Basics on Computers and information coding
1. Reference
model: the Von Neumann Machine
2. Information and
its measure
3. Binary
information encoding
4. Binary codes:
fundamental inequity for coding, examples (ASCII, 7 segment,
numbers)
5. Information
carried by a message: messages, sources and source entropy
3. Media and multimedia
1. Physical vs
digital media
2. Digital media
characterization
3. Digital media
on the Web
4. Multimedia storage, compression and transport
1. Storage support
(CD, DVD, Optical Memories, Solid State Memories, Magnetic
Memories)
2. Compression of
digital data: categories and techniques, examples (run length
coding, Huffman coding)
3. Transport:
online transport, basics on Internet protocols (LAN, gateways, DNS,
DHCP), transfer rate
5. Digital Images
1. Color and color
spaces
2. Color depth,
resolution, spatial resolution, compression (GIF, PNG, JPEG),
vector graphic principles
6. Digital audio
1. Audio waves,
frequency, sound speed, amplitude, basics on analog-to-digital
sampling theory (sampling rate, quantization), compression (MP3),
MIDI
7. Introduction to relational data bases
1. Entities,
attributes and relations
2. Primary key and
foreign key, data domain, query language (SQL)
3. Examples using
Access DBMS
4. Spatial access
to digital contents: GIS and GPS
5. GIS examples
using ESRI Arcview
8. Metadata and ontologies for digital cultural
heritage documentation
1. XML, RDF
2. Dublin
Core
3.
Microformats
4. Semantic
Web
5. OWL,
ontologies, Cidoc-CRM
9. Content and Containers for the digital
representation of human world: techno-business perspective
1. Multimedia
production for mobile devices: human resources, activities,
organization, innovation
2. Business model
for interoperable innovative services based on semantic Web
technologies
Readings/Bibliography
Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage:
Applications and Environments
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=41892
Archives & Museum
Informatics
http://www.archimuse.com/index.html
EPOCH (European Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage)
http://www.epoch-net.org
IMSS (Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza)
http://www.imss.fi.it/index.html
EUROPEANA pensar cultura
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Ther CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org/
Teaching methods
Classes are supported by Power Point slides. During the course will
be given some seminars and demos.
Assessment methods
1) A public presentation of a course related topic choosen by the
student in agreement with the teacher
2) A oral discussion
Teaching tools
The Moodle platform will be used to interact with students
(http://www.moodle.unibo.it/mod/forum/view.php?id=12768)
Links to further information
http://didattica.arces.unibo.it/mod/resource/view.php?id=449
Office hours
See the website of Luca Roffia