HIB006b History and Information Technology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Tomáš Dvořák, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 B2.52
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! HIB0241 History and Inform. Technology
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Main goal of the seminar is to improve the computer literacy of students according to professional needs in history research.
Learning outcomes
The graduate will be able to finalize texts according to the fundamentals of smooth typesetting for further editorial treatment and also participate in the editing. He/she will also know the electronic and classic means of the processing of the correction of a text.
The graduate acquire experience with the construction and critique of hypertext contents. The graduates master the fundamentals of factual academic presentation.
The graduates will be able to orient themselves in the expanding offer of digitized source databases (sources and literature), are acquainted with foreign field information portals.
Syllabus
  • Typographic minimum. Text processing according to the fundamentals of smooth typesetting. Tools for text revision and commentation. Useful tools of the text processor.
  • History on the internet: Basic aids for historical work: online bibliography, database of archival collections. Source databases. Electronic information resources – field databases of specialized literature. Professional information portals. Databases, database applications and their use in research.
  • Historical text and hypertext. Wikipedia as a source of information, its opportunities and limits.
Literature
    required literature
  • LORENZ, Maren: Prezentace dějin na Wikipedii aneb touha po neměnnosti uprostřed nekonečné změny. Dějiny-Teorie-Kritika 12, 2014/1, s.122-243.
  • DVOŘÁK, Tomáš: World wide web a dějepisectví. Rizika, výzvy a příležitosti. Dějiny-Teorie-Kritika 12, 2014/1 s. 108-121.
  • SMYČKA, Václav: Dějiny zachycené v síti. Odsun/vyhnání v hypertextu Wikipedia. Václav Smyčka. Dějiny-Teorie-Kritika 12, 2014/1, s. 93-107.
  • DVOŘÁK, Tomáš: Informační technologie jako nástroj a pomocník historického výzkumu. In: kol: Úvod do studia dějepisu. 1. díl. Brno 2014, s. 120-134.
Teaching methods
Lectures, group projects or homeworks.
Assessment methods
Evaluation of the treatment of the independent tasks in the course of the semester: 1) Processing of the article into Wikipedia, 2) Treatment of a short presentation, 3) Processing of text correction, 4) Basic typographical text processing.
Language of instruction
Czech
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