Università Roma Tre

The laboratory aims to introduce to the main conceptual and technical aspects, and above all to the multiple potentialities inherent to the use of computer resources applied to the studies (philological-literary, linguistic, historical) related to antiquity - classical and Christian - and to Middle Ages.
Program:
- between indexes and catalogs: guidelines for bibliographic research in general and for the retrieval of digitized materials (manuscripts and incunabula, books - both commercially and otherwise -, editorial novelties and volumes in preparation, articles in scientific journals, miscellaneous publications and conference proceedings, chronicles and reviews; electronic editor disector);
- databanks and electronic archives available on the net (in the form of text and / or digital image), and related query modes;
- electronic databases and archives (bibliographic and textual) on CD-ROM or DVD;
- electronic dictionaries, lexicons, computer concordances on various media, and other tools for consultation or textual analysis;
- reviews of IT resources and blogs for studies on antiquity and the Middle Ages;
- the Open Access Repositories of scientific research;
- academic social networks and humanities.
Lectures will be accompanied by practical exercises, to be carried out autonomously at the Department Laboratory.

The guides for the use of the main electronic resources presented during the course, as well as the other study materials, will be provided to students in digital format.