“Digital Technologies Applied to History” Master’s Degree

Year 1

Year 1 of this Master’s programme consists of a general education foundation regarding sources, including mandatory subjects and two themed tracks (Archives; Books and media)

Both semesters are based on courses in the archivist-palaeographer programme and thus rely on the experience and coordination of the teaching staff in order to ensure their consistency.

Enrolling in year 2 of the Master’s degree programme is dependent on the approval of the Academic Committee.

The establishment does not issue 1^st-year Master’s degrees.

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Year 2

Learning about information and communication technologies occurs during the second year, in order to create a link with other Master’s degrees in history and attract graduate students in history who would rather diversify their studies than take the teaching exams.

Semester 3: 30 ECTS

Core curriculum: 270 hours

This programme, which combines lectures, visits, encounters and numerous seminar hours, focuses on:

• Digital documents and digitisation techniques
• The reporting and description of collections
• Certain programming fundamentals
• Electronic publication techniques
• Document and data structuring techniques
• Challenges and strategies regarding digital documents
• An overview of the existing electronic resources
• The perpetuation of digital information
• The design and creation of a document app for the Web
• Conducting computerisation projects for primary sources

Semester 4: 30 ECTS

Semester 4 is dedicated to developing a project that will be either:

• For the research track, a written dissertation in history, art history or literature, and also including computer processing; it may be replaced by the development of a software programme for research purposes
• For the professional track, an IT project (XML model, digital corpus using XML, database, electronic publication of sources, dynamic Web app, virtual exhibit, specifications, software analysis or prototype, etc.) on cultural heritage collections or objects, which will be carried out on behalf of a cultural heritage institution, a research team in the Human and Social Sciences or a private company, within the framework of a long-term internship in France or abroad.

Technical workshops will be organised in order to expand on the practical courses given in semester 3, in accordance with the dissertation subjects and student internships.

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