FF:KLBcB82 Informatics Sources in Cl.Arch - Course Information

KLBcB82 Sources of Informatics for Class. Archaeology II

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Tomáš Hlavička (lecturer)
PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Eliška Kazdová, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 19 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The ever-increasing volume of data and options is available on the internet. The aim of the course is to teach students to use Internet resources of professional character, which can serve as complement to the methodology of the field and allow you to get: a) to the bibliographic data, professional texts, digitized publications (studies, books, encyclopedias); b) to iconographic images and data banks by broad categories (ancient sculpture, painting, pottery, inscriptions, coins, crafts and jewelry); c) to specialized categories (iconography of specific topics); d) according to the web portals of main museums with ancient monuments and collections and their provided databases; the goal is to make students aware of not only great museums, but also smaller collections of important but relatively little-known artifacts. e) from publicly available databases as Insecula, Flickr, newly Pinterest, Wikimedia commons, or. i Getty Images, which greatly expand the repertoire and the quality of the photos, but the professional use supoposes from students of the classsical archaeology the get accuracy for distinguish the correctness of provided descriptions and apply technical criteria of style and chronology, because the provided informations can be in contradiction with reality. When processing the papers, theses, it occurs that students are not satisfied with   print publications and material therein but they must search also documentation sources from different www.sites, they must be able to properly evaluate them, select, and last but not least quote them correctly.

Syllabus

• Interactive teaching means to be familiar with the applicable sites, explaining navigation and how to find specific information: 1. Bibliographic and textual resources: specialized bibliography Dyabola, JSTOR, Perseus journals on-line, Genesis-library, Metropolitan Museum NY. 2.-3.: practicing labor and resource combinations. Fourth Sites for the study of ancient mythology: theoi.com, maicar.com and the Warburg Institute. 5.Pictorial and iconographic banks Arachne (Uni Köln) and Beazley Archive (Oxford). 6. Archives for individual memorials - such as Traian's column, column, column M. Aurelius. 7. Main museums with ancient monuments in Europe and Turkey - based on Insecula.com, and websites and el.catalogues (BM, Louvre, NYC). 8.-9. Main museums in Canada, USA, South America, Philippines and Japan (including collections of Universities). RSearch of ressources on Flickr. com and ability for work with them. Pinterest - the fastest informations of objects from auction's catalogues. 10. The topic of Julio-Claudian Association on Flickr.com and Facebook - web specialists in the USA and Europe in a web archive of the iconography of portraits and coins. 11 to 12 Practicing and thematic search, building of thematised personal archives.

Literature

• BOUZEK, J. and I. ONDŘEJOVÁ. Úvod do klasické archeologie. Praha, 1985. info
• BIANCHI BANDINELLI, Ranuccio. Klassische Archäologie : eine kritische Einführung. Dresden: VEB Verlag der Kunst, 1980, 171 s. info

Teaching methods

practical exercises and explications displaying the principal topics and available sources

Assessment methods

Fulfillment: Attendance and participation in the course, presentation of assigned personal researches. Ability to understand the presented databases.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• KLBcA13 Greek Art I
• KLBcA14 Greek Art II
• KLBcA25 Etruscans in the context of Ancient World
• KLBcA26 Art of the Roman Principate
• KLBcA27 Roman art from beginnings to the end of the Republic
• KLBcA30 Greek Minor Arts of Classical and Hellenistic Period
• KLBcA36 Seminar to art of Rome

Further Comments

The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught every week.

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