The aim of this course is
• to reinforce computer literacy,
• to teach new skills in digital technologies for the study of textual sources, and
• to introduce the concept of a scholarly/scientific approach to digital humanities. Upon completion of the course, the students will
• be acquainted with the most important digital resources for research on manuscript and papyri
• have acquired basic skills in digital research on manuscripts and papyri, beyond basic text processing and general use of applications and the internet.
• be familiar with all the basic tools/applications/database/websites in manuscript research and they will comprehend the extent of these tools’ abilities and constraints, as well as of the technical skill and processing required for such tools to work.
• be able to scan and photograph manuscripts and documents and perform basic image processing.
• be able to draw metadata, perform complicated search in databases.
• be able to produce simple data ontologies.
• Be able to understand and use tools for Machine Learning Handwritten Text Recognition
• They will be able to recognize basic principles and functions in coding (both programming and markup), and they will have written their own simple code.
