Modelling can be considered one of the – if not ‘the’ – Digital Humanities primitives. The activity of analysing and modelling some Humanities domain or domains with the purpose of making them processable by a computer represents one of the defining characteristics of DH. The lectures will focus on different aspects of modelling and on how these can be used on a constructive ending for the understanding of texts and textual scholarship.
The first part will focus on the definition of what is modelling and which role does modelling of data play in the Digital Humanities. The lecture focuses in particular on the integration of Digital Humanities and scientific methods by means of the creation of theoretical models.
The second part will instead focus on a model of text, document and work, using the model as an epistemological tool for the understanding of the editorial work. The lecture will then consider textual transmission where a classic communication model will be used to understand where textual variation intervenes and how.