MoHu Seminar- Object & Theories and Methods Groups | Digital humanities e ricerca storica sul traffico marittimo: da Navigocorpus a Portic

Sala Bortolami, Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli. Via del Vescovado, 30 - Padova

30.10.2019

Mercoledì 30 ottobre 2019 alle ore 15.00 presso la Sala Bortolami, Palazzo Jonoch Gulinelli. Via del Vescovado, 30 nell'ambito del ciclo di incontri "Mobility and the Humanities: Seminar Series", per i nodi "Oggetti" e "Teorie e Metodi", Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d'Azur, Nice) terrà un seminario dal titolo "Digital humanities e ricerca storica sul traffico marittimo: da Navigocorpus a Portic".

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Over the past two decades, Digital Humanities have been deeply transforming historical research by offering a set of tools and new opportunities. This paper presents the aims and results of the research programme financed by the by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche called Navigocopus, which created an online database of shipping , and its current developpements within a new ANR research programme called PORTIC ((PORTs & Information and Communication Sciences and Technology. Querying and visualizing eighteenth-century shipping and trade dynamics in the digital era). The current project will provide online tools to query the database and visualize its contects though maps, charts and graphs. We expect to produce a new understaning of shipping and maritime trade at the eve of the French Revolution and to demonstrate the possibility of developming DH tools which do not oversimplify the complexity of historical data.