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Dear all,
with the usual apologies for cross-posting, please find below the announcement of the 'virtual summer camp' organized by the VeDPH (Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice) in substitution of the summer school that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemia. Teaching materials will be published in https://vedph.github.io/summercamp
Best regards, Paolo Monella
Visiting Scholar Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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It was with great disappointment that we had to cancel the first Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities due to the coronavirus emergency. All the more, we are now happy to announce the first Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities to take place from 6 - 10 July 2020. It is a condensed version of the original training programme, transformed and adapted to the online modality and the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic. As a positive side effect, a large number of seminars and presentations can now be offered without registration and free of charge as open events. Other training sessions are restricted to a number of participants and places have been reserved for the successful applicants of the originally planned Summer School in Venice.
The virtual summer camp is organised by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities [https://www.unive.it/vedph] and includes four different thematic strands: (1) Digital Textual Scholarship, (2) Digital and Public History, (3) Digital and Public Art History, and (4) Digital Archaeology and its Public. Classes will be delivered by the colleagues from the centre and other expert scholars from internationally renowned institutions. We are most grateful to everyone being actively involved in the realisation of an outstanding programme, and especially to our keynote speakers Elena Pierazzo (University of Tours) and Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna).
For more information, see the Virtual Summer Camp Website [https://vedph.github.io/summercamp].
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Strand #1: Digital Textual Scholarship
This strand provides a brief overview of theories and practices in digital scholarly editing. Participants will be introduced to the very basics of markup and text encoding, linked open data and semantic web technologies, documentation and analysis of material textual aspects, and tools and applications for publication. The format will alternate open seminars with laboratory sessions and hands-on exercises restricted to successful applicants of the originally planned summer school. The famous travel report of the Venetian explorer Marco Polo will serve as a starting point (as preserved in an illustrated manuscript copy from the Bodleian Library). Further resources and all teaching materials will be freely accessible on our Github repository [https://github.com/vedph/event_materials/tree/master/2020_summer_camp]
Monday, 6 July 2020 INTRODUCTION 11:00-11:45 - Welcome, Keynote by Elena Pierazzo (Univ. Tours) [plenary, open] 12:00-12:30 - Franz Fischer (Ca’ Foscari): Introduction to the Strand (programme, objectives, digital scholarly editing and the “linked open” edition) [open]
15:00-15:30 - Federico Boschetti, Angelo Mario del Grosso (CNR-ILC / Ca’ Foscari): Textual markup (typographic, structural, semantic: HTML, CSS, XML) [open] 15:45-16:30 - Text Lab: Set up [restricted]
Tuesday, 7 July 2020 TEXTUALITY 11:00-11:30 - Holger Essler, Franz Fischer (Ca’ Foscari): Encoding texts (TEI, pt. 1) [open] 11.45-12.30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
15:00-15:30 - Holger Essler, Franz Fischer (Ca’ Foscari): Encoding texts (TEI, pt. 2) [open] 15:45-16:30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
Wednesday, 8 July 2020 SEMANTICS 11:00-11:30 - Tiziana Mancinelli, Daniele Fusi (Ca’ Foscari): Opening up the edition (Semantic Web, pt. 1) [open] 11.45-12.30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
15:00-15:30 - Tiziana Mancinelli, Daniele Fusi (Ca’ Foscari): Opening up the edition (Semantic Web, pt. 1) [open] 15:45-16:30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
Thursday, 9 July 2020 MATERIALITY 11:00-11:30 Alberto Campagnolo (Univ. Udine / Ca’ Foscari): Representing materiality of texts (VisColl, spectral imaging) [open] 11.45-12.30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
15:00-15:30 - Paolo Monella (Univ. Palermo / Ca’ Foscari): Linking text and image (IIIF) [open] 15:45-16:30 - Text Lab: Hands-on exercises [restricted]
Friday, 10 July 2020 VISUALISATION 11:00-11:30 - Tiziana Mancinelli, Daniele Fusi, Alberto Campagnolo, Paolo Monella, Federico Boschetti: Presenting the edition [open] 11.45-12.30 - Discussion: How would I apply all this to my own research project? [restricted]
15:00-15:45 - Closing keynote by Fabio Vitali (Univ. Bologna) [plenary, open]
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Strand #2: Digital and Public History
This strand focuses on the application of digital technologies and a public approach to historical research and dissemination. The classes aim at giving an overview of very different topics, ranging from memory to social media, from television to digital tools, offering reflections on how we connect to, reconstruct, understand and eventually tell our past with digital and public methodologies. The strand includes activities that the students can perform on their own before getting feedback from the teacher. A special attention will be devoted to the intersection between history and the exceptional situation we’re going through due to the Covid-19 emergency.
Monday, 6 July 2020 11:00-11:45 - Welcome, Keynote by Elena Pierazzo (Univ. Tours) [plenary, open] 15:30-16:45 - Stefano Dall’Aglio (Ca’ Foscari): Public History in a time of crisis [open]
Tuesday, 7 July 2020 10:00-11:15 - Leonardo Campus (Ca’ Foscari): History and TV [restricted] 17:00-18:00 - Leonardo Campus (Ca’ Foscari): History and TV-Activity Feedback [restricted]
Wednesday 8 July 10:00-11:15 - Frederick Clavert (C2DH, Univ. of Luxembourg): History and social media. How to collect tweets for archiving and analysis purposes: practice and methods [restricted]
Thursday 9 July 10:00-11:15 - Deborah Paci (Ca’ Foscari): Networks in History: methods and tools for visualizing historical data [open]
Friday 10 July 10:00-11:15 - Mirco Carrattieri (Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri): Public History and Memory [open] 15:00-15:45 - Closing keynote by Fabio Vitali (Univ. Bologna) [plenary, open]
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Strand #3: Digital and Public Art History This strand focuses on the technological development and its cultural implications which occurred in the arts sector over the last decades. In doing this, the digital aspect is approached both on the side of artistic production and the art system as well as on the side of museums and art historical representation. The issues of technological change, digital nativity, virtual realms and digital tools will be discussed also in the context of the current international situation of crisis. Both the theoretical debate and practical tools for digital art historians shall be explored by means of lectures and labs, which will include a hands-on workshop on tools for digital analysis of illustrations, a students’ forum on digital culture at the time of Covid-19, and a roundtable to discuss recent tools and developments in Digital and Public Art History with experts of European renown.
Monday, 6 July 2020 11:00-11:45 - Welcome, Keynote by Elena Pierazzo (Univ. Tours) [plenary, open] 12:00-12:30 - Diego Mantoan, Barbara Tramelli (Ca’ Foscari), Carolina Fernández-Castrillo (Universidad Carlos III Madrid / Ca’ Foscari): Strand introduction [restricted] 15:30-17:00 - Diego Mantoan (Ca’ Foscari): Art Collections and Digitization practices in the age of digital image circulation [seminar, open]
Tuesday, 7 July 2020 11:00-12:30 - Barbara Tramelli (Ca’ Foscari): The Path of the Image: the Image Matching and the Automatic Retrieval of Early Modern Digital Illustrations [seminar, open] 15:30-17:00 - Giles Bergel (Univ. of Oxford): Computer vision for digital art history: a hands on workshop with Visual Geometry Group tools [workshop, restricted]
Wednesday, 8 July 2020 11:00-12:30 - Carolina Fernández-Castrillo (Universidad Carlos III Madrid / Ca’ FOscari): “Emergent Cultural Practices at the Age of User Generated Contents” [seminar, open] 15:30-17:00 - “Recent Tools and Developments in Digital and Public Art History” with special guests: Rossella Catanese (NYU, Florence); Erma Hermens (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam); Trilce Navarrete (Erasmus University Rotterdam) [round table, restricted]
Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:00-12:30 - Erma Hermens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam): Material histories of museum objects: digital imaging for conservation and dissemination at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam [seminar, open] 15:30-17:00 - Valeria Finocchi (Museo di Palazzo Grimani): Reinventing the museum narrative in a time of crisis [laboratory, restricted]
Friday, 10 July 2020 11:00-12:30 - Digital Culture at the time of Covid-19 (with presentation of selected posters) [student forum, restricted] 15:00-15:45 - Closing keynote by Fabio Vitali (Univ. Bologna) [plenary, open]
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Strand #4: Digital Archaeology and its Public This strand focuses on theories and practices that archaeologists apply in surveys, remote sensing, spatial analysis, data collection and data management. Participants will engage in digital strategies to analyze the heritage and visualize, share and communicate it to the public. Moreover, taking advantage of the recent Covid-19 lockdown experience, and using archaeological tools and methods, Strand #4 aims to explore how the materiality of representative objects that shaped/are shaping our daily life may be narrated, interpreted, visualized and digitized.
Monday, 6 July 2020 11:00-11:45 - Welcome, Keynote by Elena Pierazzo (Univ. Tours) [plenary, open] 12:00-12.30 - Diego Calaon, Carlo Beltrame, Elisa Corro’ (Ca’ Foscari): Introduction to the Strand [restricted] 12.30 -13.15 - Diego Calaon (Ca’ Foscari): Archaeologies of Materiality: Public, Politics and Ethics [open] 15:00-16:00 - Elisa Corrò (Ca’ Foscari): Maker Culture: when Archaeology meets Digital Creativity. Practices and Community Engagement with Intangible Heritage [open] 16.30-17.30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo and Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 1- Introduction (Narratives and Object Biographies; Virtualizing materiality, GIS and 3Ds; Visual Storytelling) [restricted]
Tuesday, 7 July 2020 11:00-12:00 - Elisa Costa, Carlo Beltrame (Ca’ Foscari): Documentation and virtual dive in maritime archaeology [open] 15:00-16:00 - Cristina Barbiani, Carlo Beltrame, Paola Perozzo (Ca’ Foscari): Digital exhibition of the archaeological investigation of the brig Mercurio (1812) [open] 16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 2, Data Gathering - Choice and description of the materials [restricted]
Wednesday, 8 July 2020 11:00-12:00 - Dominik Lukas (Univ. of Chicago) Database and mining [open] 16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown”, Step 3, Interpretation, Economic and Social Relationships [restricted]
Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:00-12:00 - Angus Mol (Univ. Leiden): Archaeology and videogames [open] 16:30-17:30 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown” - Step 4, Dismantling traditional narratives, Remodeling the Past [restricted]
Friday, 10 July 2020 11:00-12:00 - Diego Calaon, Elisa Corrò, Eleonora Delpozzo, Sofia Antonello (Ca’ Foscari): Virtual Data Camp “The Materiality of a Global Lockdown” - Step 5, Presentation of the Individual projects [restricted] 15:00-15:45 - Closing keynote by Fabio Vitali (Univ. Bologna) [plenary, open]