ARTS020 Digital Humanities

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 B2.13
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!PROGRAM(B-ISK_) || (PROGRAM(B-ISK_) && (ARTS001 Human Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Sciences || ARTS002 Approaches to the scientific understanding of language || ARTS003 On current issues of contemporary culture, especially music and theater || ARTS004 Homer and European literature || ARTS005 Life in cyberspace || ARTS006 The Fall of an Empire or the Rise of Europe? || ARTS007 Germanic literature - winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature || ARTS008 Argumentation and Logic || ARTS009 Czech 101 || ARTS010 History of Mongolia and steppe empires || ARTS011 Transformations of Christian Europe: Visions, Critical Analysis and Discussions || ARTS012 Cultural Construction of Otherness || ARTS013 Slavonic Areas || ARTS014 How to read contemporary world literature. A journey across genres. || ARTS015 Humans as a cultural species: Introduction to interdisciplinary research || ARTS016 Literary Life at Medieval Universities || ARTS017 Life after Death in the European Literature and Arts || ARTS018 You Are Here: Places and Spaces in Anglophone Cultures || ARTS019 Shakespeare: Art and Virtue || ARTS021 Art and Culture in Central Europe))
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 140 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 3/140, only registered: 0/140, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/140
Abstract
Propaedeutic course for all Faculty of Arts students with an interest in the use of digital data and digital technology in the humanities. The course is followed by courses put out by detached departments that allow the use of the basic skills acquired in this course in a particular disciplinary context.

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the  field of digital humanities and show what digital technology has brought to the different areas of the humanities. Attention is paid to how digital technologies have changed scientific practices in various humanities and to new questions that experts can find answers to through the application of digital technologies. Students will get acquainted with the basic technologies, personalities and projects that have fundamentally influenced the field of digital humanities. The main goal of the course is to acquaint students with basic practices and tools for working with data in humanities.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- find, download and pre-process research data
- formulate research questions for digital research
- to suggest a suitable digital tool for answering research questions
- store, provide metadata and share own research data
- describe changes in scientific thinking and research caused by computational and communication technology
Key topics
  • 1. Digital turn in the humanities (PhDr. Michal Lorenz, Ph.D.)
  • 2. Digitization and sources of digital data (MgA. Michal Indrák, Ph.D)
  • 3. Digital data, their acquisition and cleansing (Mgr. Jan Mayer)
  • 4. Metadata (RNDr. Miroslav Bartošek, CSc.)
  • 5. Text data and their processing (RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D)
  • 6. Image data and their processing (doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.)
  • 7. Spatial data and their processing (Mgr. Adam Mertel, Ph.D.)
  • 8. Network analysis (doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D)
  • 9. Data visualization (Mgr. Tomáš Marek)
  • 10. Data publishing (Mgr. Ing. Jiří Marek)
  • 11. Data archiving and storage (Mgr. Michal Konečný)
Study resources and literature
  • BURDICK, Anne; Johanna DRUCKER; Peter LUNENFELD; Todd Samuel PRESNER and Jeffrey T. SCHNAPP. Digital_Humanities. Translated by David Vichnar. Vydání první. Praha: Academia, 2019, 191 stran. ISBN 9788020028655. info
  • Cultural heritage infrastructures in digital humanities. Edited by Agiatis Benardou - Erik Champion - Costis Dallas - Lorna M. Hughes. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, xvii, 172. ISBN 9781472447128. info
  • Research methods for the digital humanities. Edited by Lewis Levenberg - Tai Neilson - David Rheams. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xvii, 325. ISBN 9783319967127. info
  • Digital humanities in practice. Edited by Claire Warwick - Melissa M. Terras - Julianne Nyhan. First published. London: Facet Publishing in association with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, 2012, xix, 233. ISBN 9781856047661. info
  • Understanding digital humanities. Edited by David M. Berry. 1st pub. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012, xviii, 318. ISBN 9780230292659. info
  • A companion to digital humanities. Edited by Susan Schreibman - Raymond George Siemens - John Unsworth. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell, 2004, xxvii, 611. ISBN 9781405168069. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
- presentations by professionals from different fields
- short application tasks in digital tools
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Each lecture will give the student a short assignment, scored 1-5 points. To complete the course, it is necessary to collect 75% of the total number of points.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2020, recent)
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