Academic Course 2014/1015
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
prof. Antonella Ambrosio, tutor Maria Rosaria Falcone
Naples, Italy
This year’s Palaeography course for the Master Degree students in Organization and Administration of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage and Master Degree students in History provided an overview on the evolution of Latin Script and showed it as a tangible part of our cultural heritage waiting to be disovered, understood, protected and valued. Moreover the lectures traced a path from traditional to new digital methodologies by using the digital archives available on the international platform Monasterium.Net and by actively engaging the students by employing Monasterium’s tool MOM-Ca. The course is organized in the context of ENArC – European Network on Archival Cooperation (EU Culture Programme 2007-2013) and of co:op – Community as Opportunity. The creative Archives’ and Users’ network (Creative Europe. Support Programme for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors from 2014).
Academic Course 2013/1014
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
prof. Antonella Ambrosio, tutor Maria Rosaria Falcone
Naples, Italy
This year’s Palaeography and Diplomatics course (academic course for Master Degree students in History), organized in context of the activities of the ENARC project, focused on the Diplomatics of the charters of the abbey of Santa Maria della Grotta (Vitulano, BV) and traced a path from traditional to new digital methodologies.
To foster consciousness of the changes induced by the new technologies and at the same time a sensibility for the original documents, the course started with the teaching of the traditional methodologies and the analysis of the abbey’s charters with the help of reproductions. It proceeded with a contextualising visit to the original setting of the abbey as a place of medieval charter production in South Italy and another visit to the conservation site of the charters, the Library of the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria, where the students analyzed the originals.
Thus attained an idea of the historical and archival context of the documentation, the students approached in a computer lab the same charters and private deeds as part of a digital archive, in this case a virtual reconstruction of the convents’ archive on Monasterium.net. They applied the methods of traditional diplomatic analysis using the digital editor of Monasterium.net, MOMCa, and investigated the parameters necessary for historical research on charters with the aim to enrich the digital archive. For example, among these criteria there will be the original expression of the date in the charter and the name of the notary. This new data will be inserted in the digital archive within summer 2014. This course also experimented the social network Facebook as a new didactic tool.
Academic Course 2012/2013
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze storiche
prof. Antonella Ambrosio, tutor Maria Rosaria Falcone
Naples, Italy
Let’s start! The Diplomatics course for Master’s Degree students at the University of Naples, Federico II, organized in the context of the activities of the ENARC project, traced a path from traditional to the new methodologies of the Digital Age. The students acquired consciousness of the changes induced by the new technologies, but also a sensibility for the original documents. Therefore, some lessons took place at the conservation sites of the charters to be studied, the parchments of the Neapolitan convent of SS. Pietro and Sebastiano, preserved at the Library of the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria and at the States Archive Naples. Another lesson on the history of the monastic community and its archive was scheduled at the monastery itself, today a secondary school focusing on humanities (Liceo Classico Vittorio Emanuele). Thus attained an idea of the historical and archival context of the documentation, the students approached in a computer lab the same charters and private deeds as part of a digital archive, in this case a virtual reconstruction of the convents’ archive on Monasterium.net. There, the students applied the methods of traditional diplomatic analysis using the digital editor of Monasterium.net, MOMCa, and investigated the transformations set off by the new tools.
Academic Course 2011/2012
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze storiche
prof. Antonella Ambrosio, tutor Maria Rosaria Falcone
Naples, Italy
Diplomatics Course for the Bachelor and Master’s Degree Course in History at University of Naples Federico II. Achieving a student Diplomatics Course by employing Monasterium.net, EditMOM tool and moodle platform Rete@ccessibile. Within the didactic activities of this course we opened an international forum on Rete@ccessibile platform for the international courses in Palaeography and Diplomatics.
Course for the Master in Library and Archival Science
and Methodology of Research 2011/2012
Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Scienze storiche
prof. Antonella Ambrosio, tutor Maria Rosaria Falcone
Naples, Italy
Achieving a postgraduate Diplomatics Course by employing Monasterium and EditMoM tool and rete@ccessibile: a moodle platform for distance learning.
