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SUMMARY:Fall School in Digital Humanities 2015
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151005
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DESCRIPTION:DHLAB\n“Venice 1740”\nThe Veduta del Canal Grande e della 
 Pescheria (Milano\, Pinacoteca di Brera) by Fransceco Guardo depicts a spe
 cific moment of the Rialto market everyday life. Thanks to Guardi\,  Cana
 letto and other great painters of ‘vedute’\, we can still today pictur
 e Venice in the XVIIIe century\, in that moment of progressive decline of 
 its past splendor. The descriptive richness of the painting can now be mat
 ched with other highly dense sources of information\, that can be extracte
 d during the digitization the Venice Time Machine project\, a ten year res
 earch program that aim at reconstructing how Venice was in the past\, base
 d on historical sources.\nThe Digital Humanities Fall School 2015\, “Ven
 ice 1740”\, organized as a collaboration between the Ecole Polytechnique
  Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)\, the Ca’Foscari University and the State
  Archives of Venice will focus on the exploration and reconstruction of Ve
 nice in the year 1740.\nWho lives in Venice at his moment\, what was the g
 overnment structure\, what were the most common professions\, how was the 
 commercial activity distributed in the city\, what were the principal caus
 es of death\, these are some of the questions that will be addressed by th
 e Fall School students based on the historical documents and the various r
 econstruction that can built upon them. This year\, the students will work
  the tools and data of the Venice Time Machine project\, analyzing the his
 torical sources that are currently being digitized\, annotating them and l
 inking them with one another with new open source powerful software develo
 ped in the context of the project.\nIn archival terms\, 1740 is a key date
 \, before the revolution introduced in 1808 by the Napoleonic cadaster. Th
 e urban structure of the ancien regime Venice can be reconstructed using v
 arious data series can be aligned with more recent one. For instance the C
 atastici\, report of Venetian official controlling houses one by one follo
 wing specific trajectories in the city\, can be matched with other fiscal 
 sources to recreate the precisely who was leaving where and what activitie
 s were conducted.\nThe indexes of the administrative and fiscal series ser
 ve as a base for extracting the “entities” of the information system o
 f the Venice Time Machine\, like persons\, institutions\, places and their
  relations. All the entities present in the document and recontextualized 
 historically\, are inserted in a Geographical Information System (GIS) cap
 able of reconstructing the Venetian urban physiology in 1740 and producing
  thematic maps relevant for historical research covering the social\, poli
 tical\, urban\, economic and artistic dimensions of Venice.\nThanks to the
  supervision of the specialists of the Venice State of Archive in Venice\,
  the students of the Fall School will be able to analyze and interpret the
  original documents\, extract relevant data and construct historical inter
 pretations following the lines that will emerge during their research. In 
 addition with the lab activities conducted in the archive\, keynote speake
 rs will introduce during the week specific focus on some historical aspect
  relevant for theme and new frontiers currently being investigated in the 
 digital humanities field.Keynote Speaker\nSigurdur Gylfi Magnusson (Univer
 sity of Iceland\, Reykjavik).Speakers\nFabio Bortoluzzi\; Giovanni Caniato
 \; Isabella di Lenardo\; Martina Frank\; Frédéric Kaplan\; Dorit Raines\
 ; Raffaele Santoro\; Andrea Zannini.
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