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Professor: [http://people.epfl.ch/frederic.kaplan Frédéric Kaplan]
Professor: [http://people.epfl.ch/frederic.kaplan Frédéric Kaplan]


Assistants: [https://people.epfl.ch/vincent.buntinx Vincent Buntinx] and Lia Costiner
Assistants: Alexander Rusnak, Tristan Karch, Tommy Bruzzese


Rooms: Wednesday (CMN1113) and Friday (CM1104)
Rooms: Wednesday (CM1110) and Thursday (BC03)


==Links==
==Links==
 
*[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j0xoe45dp0km4do41kk9c/FDH_Textbook.pdf?rlkey=mr5hdplu5ai7qts3tk0n4k5a0&dl=0 Textbook]
*[https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=15281 Moodle]
*[https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tu5waw0623hcp4537lx6u/AKx-eznaH6BRddo1goaF7OE?rlkey=jiewdfpk5ysyv92m1817sk5qc&st=01697apo&dl=0 Slides]
*[https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/fdh Framapad]
*[https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/fdh Framapad]
*[https://pov-dev.up.railway.app/ Application Parcels of Venice (Dev version)]
*[https://pov.up.railway.app/ Application Parcels of Venice (Stable version)]
*[[Projects]]
* Sources
** [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/oekkk9ts0pnjyiqaezz7m/Toponomastica-Veneziana.pdf?rlkey=wfky7ht9ckxa1w1qo6c69bo98&dl=0 Tassini PDF], [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lfu8ugk25re333gca65g7/Toponomastica-Veneziana_with_pages_delim.txt?rlkey=fouht7678vs102918hn9fuxs1&dl=0 Tassini OCR]
** [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/netqhm40dyw046withu8q/AJO_CPupJwuLw4Zvg1JF2jc?rlkey=ldswph81gb0n9xgi5qzz1b1i8&dl=0 Guido Commerciale PDF]
** [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=sanudodiary Sanudo PDF]
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==Summary==
==Summary==


This course gives an introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods of the Digital Humanities, both from a theoretical and applied point of view. The course introduces the Digital Humanities circle of processing and interpretation, from data acquisition to new understandings and services. The first part of the course presents the technical pipelines for digitising, analysing and modelling written documents (printed and handwritten), maps, photographs and 3d objects and environments. The second part of the course details the principles of the most important algorithms for document processing (layout analysis, deep learning methods), knowledge modelling (semantic web, ontologies, graph databases) generative models and simulation (rule-based inference, deep learning based generation). The third part of the course focuses on platform management from the points of view of data, users and bots. Students will practise the skills they learn directly analysing and interpreting Cultural Datasets from ongoing large-scale research projects (Venice Time Machine, Swiss newspaper archives).
This course gives an introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods of the Digital Humanities, both from a theoretical and applied point of view. The course introduces the Digital Humanities circle of processing and interpretation, from data acquisition to new understandings and services. The first part of the course presents the technical pipelines for digitising, analysing and modelling written documents (printed and handwritten), maps, photographs and 3d objects and environments. The second part of the course details the principles of the most important algorithms in particular deep learning approaches (for document analysis and image generation) and  knowledge modelling (semantic web, ontologies, graph databases). The third part of the course focuses on platform management from the points of view of data, users and bots. Students will practise the skills they learn by engaging in a class-wide collective project.


==Plan ==
==Plan ==
=== Introduction ===
=== Part I : Concepts ===
 
==== Week 1 : What are Digital Humanities? ====
 
11.09 :
 
(2h) Welcome and Introduction to the course
* FDH-0 (1h)  Introduction to the course and Digital Humanities, structure of the course. Introduction to Framapad and Slido with a simple exercise. Principle of collective note talking and use in the course. State of the Digital Humanities at EPFL.
 
12.09 :
 
(4h) What are Digital Humanities? What is their object of study?
* FDH-1-1 (1h) What Are Digital Humanities :  Digital Humanities, Digital Studies, Humanities Computing and Studies about Digital Culture. Digital Humanism vs. Digital Humanities. Why digital methods tend to dissolve traditional disciplinary frontiers. A focus on practice. Translation issues.
* FDH-1-2 (1h) Digital Humanities as a field : Big Data Digital Humanities vs Small Data Digital Humanities. The 3 circles.  Exercise on relationship between elements in Digital Culture schema.
* FDH-1-3 (2h) Big Data of the Past. Data acceleration regime. Inferred Patterns. Redocumentation. Fictional Spaces.
 
==== Week 2 :  Patrimonial Capitalism and Commons  ====
 
18.09 : 
 
* FDH 1-4 Patrimonial Capitalism (1h) Introduction to the DH circle linking the digitisation of sources, their processing, their analysis, visualisation and the creation of societal value (insight, culture) leading ultimately to the digitisation of new sources. Presentation of some sustainable DH circles (genealogy, image banks). Patrimonial capitalism and the risk of monopolistic companies. Parallelism with the race for sequencing the Human Genome.
 
* FDH 1-5 The Commons (1h) What are the commons ? What is the public domains ? History and evolution. Copyright overreaching. Frontal collision. Governing with the commons.


==== Week 1 : Structural tensions in Digital Humanities ====
19.09 :
20.09 (2h) Introduction to the course and Digital Humanities, structure of the course. Introduction to Framapad with a simple exercise. Principle of collective note talking and use in the course. State of the Digital Humanities at EPFL, in Switzerland and in Europe. Structuring tensions 1: Digital Humanities, Digital Studies, Humanities Computing and Studies about Digital Culture. Digital Humanism vs. Digital Humanities. Why digital methods tend to dissolve traditional disciplinary frontiers. A focus on practice. Translation issues.


22.09 (2h) (a) Structuring tensions 2: Big Data Digital Humanities vs Small Data Digital Humanities. The 3 circles.  Exercise on relationship between elements in Digital Culture schema. (2h) Practical session: Introduction to MediaWiki. Objective: Learning the basic syntax of MediaWiki. Get a first experience of collaborative editing. Learning to write from a neutral point of view.  Creation of the articles by the student followed by peer-review by another student (enriching, completing references). Each student picks a DH person and DH concept, write a Wiki page for each (30 mn + 30 mn). Each student chooses another person and another concept among the ones already covered, enrich with complementary information and references (20 mn + 20 mn)
* FDH 1-6 Anatomy of a large-scale project (1h) Venice Time Machine. European Time Machine.  
* DH historical figures: [[Roberto Busa]], [[H.G. Wells]], [[Paul Otlet]], [[Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie]], [[Aby Warburg]], Otto Bettmann, [[Tim Berners Lee]], Jimmy Wales, [[Elisée Reclus]], Albert Khan, [[Jules Maciet]].  
* Venice Datasets
* DH concepts and related :  [[Distant Reading]], Regulated Representations, Pattern, Culturomics, Ubiquitous Scholarship, Gamification, Thick Mapping, Design fiction, New Aesthetics, [[Skeuomorphism]], Digital Aura, [[Digital Heritage]], Attention Economy, [[Folksonomy]], Linguistic Capitalism, Open Access, Redocumentation, Open Hardware, Attention backbone, Opinion Mining, Topic Modelling, [[Gazetteer]], [[Uberisation]], Crowsifting, [[Copyleft]], Onboarding.


(25.09 2pm : Experiment with Digital Art History interface INN116)
=== Part II : Pipelines ===


==== Week 2 : Patrimonial capitalism and common goods ====
==== Week 3: Digitisation ====


27.09 (1h) Introduction to the DH circle linking the digitisation of sources, their processing, their analysis, visualisation and the creation of societal value (insight, culture) leading ultimately to the digitisation of new sources. Presentation of some sustainable DH circles (genealogy, image banks). Patrimonial capitalism and the risk of monopolistic companies. Parallelism with the race for sequencing the Genome.  Introduction to the TIme Machine FET Flagship and mutualised infrastructure approach. (1h) General presentation of the Time Machine pipeline at the Datasquare / ArtLab pavillon.
25.09 :


29.09 (4h) Forum ArtTech (Rolex Learning Center). Mininig Big Data of the Past. Patrimonial capitalism and businesses opportunities. Examples of FamilySearch, myHeritage, Corbis.
* FDH 1-7 Venice Data presentation (Paul Guhennec)


=== Part I : Pipelines ===
26.09 :


04.10 (2h) Pipeline for Written documents (Printed and Handwritten). Scanning techniques for books and documents. Principles of Transcription. Transcription tools. Canvas concept. One canvas multiple images, one image multiple canvas. Short introduction to IIIF. Named Entities, Semantic modelling,Topic and Document modelling.
* (2h) FDH 2-1 Introduction to the Digitization Process. Document digitization as a problem of conversion of dimensions. Digitization is logistic optimization. Alienation. Digitization on demand. FDH 2-2 Document Structure. General presentation of the pipeline. Content and Structure. Circulation. Standards. Open Annotation Data Model. Shared Canvas. IIIF.


06.10 (4h) Introduction to Python and bot writing (Vincent). Interfaces for MediaWiki and [[ClioWire]] (the platform we will develop during the semester). (a) Presentation of the main databases used in the course. Presentation of the group projects. (b) IIIF and DHCanvas (Orlin). Open Annotation Data Model. Shared Canvas. (c) Transcription of Venetian documents (Maud, Giovanni).  
* (2h) Project presentation by prof and TA.


11.10 (2h) Pipeline for Maps. Vectorization. Alignment. Homologs Points.
==== Week 4: Writing Systems and Text Encoding  ====


13.10 (4h) (a) QGIS Hands On. Exercise on Venetian cadaster (Bastien, Isabella). (b) Composition of the group and start of the project design.
2.10 :


18.10 (2h) Pipeline for Artworks photographs. Image banks and phototarchives. Scanning techniques for photographs. Segmentation. Features detection. Detail search.
(2h) FDH 2-3 : Writing Systems


20.10 (4h) (a) Exercises with the Replica database and search engine (Lia, Isabella) (b) Project design continues
3.10 :
- (2h) FDH 2-4 : Text Encoding


25.10 (2h) Pipeline for 3D spaces. Photogrammety. Diachronic realignment. Multiscale indexation.  
* (2h) [[Projects]] presentations. 5' per project with max 3 slides. Write to Tristan before the course. You can find a group using the [https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/fdh framapad].


27.10 (4h) (a) Photogrammetric tutorial (Nils) (b) Oral presentation of project design.
==== Week 5: Text Processing and Understanding ====


=== Part II : Algorithms ===
9.10 :


01.11 (2h) Algorithms for Document processing : Document analysis and Deep learning methods
(2h) FDH 2-5 Text Processing : Diachronic and synchronic analysis. n-grams, TF-IDF, Topic Modeling, Word Space Models and Word embeddings (2h)


03.11 (4h) (a) Machine vision tutorial (Benoit, Sofia). Introduction to Jupyter. Deep learning in practice. (b) Project development
10.10 :


08.11 (2h) Algorithms for Knowledge modelling : Semantic web, ontologies, graph database, homologous points, disambiguation.
(2h) FDH 2-6 Text Understanding : Close, surface, distant and machine reading, Information extraction, Named Entities, Resources, Large-Scale Projects (2h)  Work on Project (2h).


10.11 (4h) (a) Exercise in semantic modelling and inference (Maud) (b) Project development
==== Week 6:  Images  ====


15.11 (2h) Algorithms for Generative models and simulation : Rule-based inference, Deep learning based generation. Discussion on new regimes of visibility.
16.10 :


17.11 (4h) (a) Exercise in deep-learning based generation (Benoit, Sofia) (b) Project development
(2h) FDH 2-7 : Image systems.


=== Part III : Platform management ===
17.10 :


22.11 (2h) Data Management  : Computing infrastructure, Data Management models, Sustainability. Apps. Management of uncertainty, incoherence and errors. Iconographic principle of precaution. Example of Wikipedia and Europeana.
(2h) FDH 2-8 : Image processing (2h) Work on project.  


24.11 (4h) (a) Oral presentation of the state of the project and the data processed (b) Preparation of deployment for testing phase
(FDH 2-9 : Image understanding not done this year)


29.11 (2h) User Management : Representation, Rights, Traceability, Vandalism, Motivation, Negotiation spaces. Right to be forgotten.


01.12 (4h) Testing phase
==== Week Off  ====


06.12 (2h) Bot Management : Versioning. Open source repositories.
23.10 :


08.12 (4h) Testing phase and report writing
No course


13.12 (2h) Report writing
24.10 :


15.12 (4h) Final project presentation
No Course


==References==
==== Week 7: Maps ====


=== Key Figures ===
30.10 :
Identity map (Cardon)


Maps for Big Data Digital Humanities (Kaplan)
(2h) FDH-2-10 Map systems
 
31.10 :
 
(2h) FDH-2-11 Map processing (Remi Petitpierre and Beatrice Vaienti) presentations
(2h) Work on project
 
==== Week 8: 3D Models  ====
 
06.11 :
(2h) FDH-2-12: 3D Models Systems and Encoding
07.11 :
 
(2h) FDH-2-13: 3D Models Processing : Alex Rusnak Thesis
  (2h)Work on project
 
=== MidTerm Presentations ===
 
13.11 :
 
No course
 
14.11 Midterm presentations
 
{|class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:center;"| Time
! Project name
|-
|10:20-10:40
| Group 8
|-
|10:40-11:00
| Group 9
|-
|11:00-11:20
| Group 7
|-
|11:20-11:40
| Group 6
|-
|11:40-12:00
| Group 3
|}
 
{|class="wikitable"
! style="text-align:center;"| Time
! Project name
|-
|13:15-13:35
|  Group 2
|-
|13:35-13:55
|  Group 5
|-
|13:55-14:15
|  Group 4
|-
|14:15-14:35
|  Group 1
|-
|14:35-14:55
|  Group 10
|}
 
=== Part III : Knowledge modelling and processing ===
 
==== Week 9 : Semantic modelling, Rule systems, simulations and parallel worlds  ====
 
20.11 :
 
- (1h) FDH-3-0 Summary of the concept viewed so far and introduction to part 3
 
- (1h) FDH-3-1 Semantic modelling. RDF, Metaknowledge
 
21.11 :
 
(2h) FDH 3-2 Universal Ontologies
 
(2h) FDH 3-3 Rule systems, simulations and parallel worlds
 
 
==== Week 10 : Non conceptual knowledge systems and topological data science  ====
 
27.11 :
 
(2h) FDH 3-4 Non conceptual knowledge systems
 
28.11 :
 
(2h) FDH 3-5 Topological data science / Publication of Study Guide
(2h) Work on Projects
 
=== Part IV : Platforms ===
 
==== Week 12 : Data, User and Bot  Management  ====
 
4.12 :
 
(2h) Data Management  : FAIR principle, Creative Commons,  Data Management models, Sustainability,  Right to Forgotten. Management of uncertainty, incoherence and errors. Iconographic principle of precaution
 
5.12 :
 
(2h) User Management : Part I: Persona. Part II: Motivation and onboarding dynamics. Three case studies: Twitter. Quora. Wikipedia. Part III: "Wisdom" of the crowds. Collectivism vs Liberalism. Open source as a form of liberalism for engineering. The ambiguous of fork. Part IV: The "power" of the crowds. Mechanical Turk. Crowdflower. Crowdfunding.
 
(2h) Bot Management : Three case studies on bot management : Twitter, Wikipedia, Google.
 
==== Course Exam and Project work  ====
 
11.12 In class exam
 
12.12 Work on project
 
==== Final Week : Project Presentation ====
 
18.12
 
-- Due: GitHub repository (10%)
 
-- Due: Report writing (40%)
 
19.12
 
(4h) Final project presentation  (20%)
 
== Resources ==
*[https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/?mode=desktop Gallica]
*[https://docs.opencv.org/3.1.0/db/d27/tutorial_py_table_of_contents_feature2d.html Feature matching tutorial]
*[[Feature matching code]]
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Wiki Syntax]
*[https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/r.664b6addb1d73a5242943f306814e898 Introduction to Rhino and Grasshopper]


Semiotic Triangle (McCloud)
==Assessment and Notation grid ==


Infinite Canvas (McCloud)


Uncanny Valley (Mori)
* (Group work) 2 oral presentations (30%)
** 1 midterm presentation of the project (10%)
** 1 final discussing the project result (20%)
* (Group work) Written deliverables (Wiki writing) (20%)
* (Group work) Quality of the project (30%)
* (Individual work) Exam on Course Content (20%)


=== Databases ===
=== 2 collective oral presentations (30%) ===


(Page to be created indicating characteristics, quantity and copyright)
==== Midterm presenting the project planning  (10%) ====
10' max presentation + 5' questions


Le Temps Archives
Notation grid :
*The presentation contains a planning (4)
* + 0.5 The slides are clear and well presented
* + 0.5 The oral presentation is dynamic and fluid
* + 0.5 The planning is realistic.
* + 0.5 The students answer well to the questions


Cini Photoarchive
==== Final discussing the project result (20%) ====
10-15' for presentation and 5-10' for questions


Venice Time Machine documents
Notation grid :
*The presentation presents the results of the project (4)
* + 0.5 The slides are clear and well presented
* + 0.5 The oral presentation is dynamic and fluid
* + 0.5 The results are well discussed
* + 0.5 The students answer well to the questions


Scans of Acedemic Book and journals about Venice
=== Written deliverables (Wiki writing) (20%) ===


Linked Book
* Project plan and milestones (5%) (>300 words)
* Motivation and description of the deliverables (5%) (>300 words)
* Detailed description of the methods (5%) (>500 words)
* Quality assessment and discussion of limitations  (5%) (>300 words)


==Notation system==
The indicated number of words is a minimal bound. Detailed description can in particular be extended if needed.


Wiki writing (10%)
=== Production  (30%) ===


Project design (20%)
* Quality of the realisation 20%
* Code deliverable on github  10%


Project implementation (20%)


Project testing (20%)
=== Exam on Course Content  (20%) ===


Oral presentations (30%)
* A series of questions on the course to ensure the core concepts are understood.

Latest revision as of 21:53, 13 November 2024

Welcome to the wiki of the course Foundation of Digital Humanities (DH-405).

Contact

Professor: Frédéric Kaplan

Assistants: Alexander Rusnak, Tristan Karch, Tommy Bruzzese

Rooms: Wednesday (CM1110) and Thursday (BC03)

Links

Summary

This course gives an introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods of the Digital Humanities, both from a theoretical and applied point of view. The course introduces the Digital Humanities circle of processing and interpretation, from data acquisition to new understandings and services. The first part of the course presents the technical pipelines for digitising, analysing and modelling written documents (printed and handwritten), maps, photographs and 3d objects and environments. The second part of the course details the principles of the most important algorithms in particular deep learning approaches (for document analysis and image generation) and knowledge modelling (semantic web, ontologies, graph databases). The third part of the course focuses on platform management from the points of view of data, users and bots. Students will practise the skills they learn by engaging in a class-wide collective project.

Plan

Part I : Concepts

Week 1 : What are Digital Humanities?

11.09 :

(2h) Welcome and Introduction to the course

  • FDH-0 (1h) Introduction to the course and Digital Humanities, structure of the course. Introduction to Framapad and Slido with a simple exercise. Principle of collective note talking and use in the course. State of the Digital Humanities at EPFL.

12.09 :

(4h) What are Digital Humanities? What is their object of study?

  • FDH-1-1 (1h) What Are Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities, Digital Studies, Humanities Computing and Studies about Digital Culture. Digital Humanism vs. Digital Humanities. Why digital methods tend to dissolve traditional disciplinary frontiers. A focus on practice. Translation issues.
  • FDH-1-2 (1h) Digital Humanities as a field : Big Data Digital Humanities vs Small Data Digital Humanities. The 3 circles. Exercise on relationship between elements in Digital Culture schema.
  • FDH-1-3 (2h) Big Data of the Past. Data acceleration regime. Inferred Patterns. Redocumentation. Fictional Spaces.

Week 2 : Patrimonial Capitalism and Commons

18.09 :

  • FDH 1-4 Patrimonial Capitalism (1h) Introduction to the DH circle linking the digitisation of sources, their processing, their analysis, visualisation and the creation of societal value (insight, culture) leading ultimately to the digitisation of new sources. Presentation of some sustainable DH circles (genealogy, image banks). Patrimonial capitalism and the risk of monopolistic companies. Parallelism with the race for sequencing the Human Genome.
  • FDH 1-5 The Commons (1h) What are the commons ? What is the public domains ? History and evolution. Copyright overreaching. Frontal collision. Governing with the commons.

19.09 :

  • FDH 1-6 Anatomy of a large-scale project (1h) Venice Time Machine. European Time Machine.
  • Venice Datasets

Part II : Pipelines

Week 3: Digitisation

25.09 :

  • FDH 1-7 Venice Data presentation (Paul Guhennec)

26.09 :

  • (2h) FDH 2-1 Introduction to the Digitization Process. Document digitization as a problem of conversion of dimensions. Digitization is logistic optimization. Alienation. Digitization on demand. FDH 2-2 Document Structure. General presentation of the pipeline. Content and Structure. Circulation. Standards. Open Annotation Data Model. Shared Canvas. IIIF.
  • (2h) Project presentation by prof and TA.

Week 4: Writing Systems and Text Encoding

2.10 :

(2h) FDH 2-3 : Writing Systems

3.10 :

- (2h) FDH 2-4 : Text Encoding

  • (2h) Projects presentations. 5' per project with max 3 slides. Write to Tristan before the course. You can find a group using the framapad.

Week 5: Text Processing and Understanding

9.10 :

(2h) FDH 2-5 Text Processing : Diachronic and synchronic analysis. n-grams, TF-IDF, Topic Modeling, Word Space Models and Word embeddings (2h)

10.10 :

(2h) FDH 2-6 Text Understanding : Close, surface, distant and machine reading, Information extraction, Named Entities, Resources, Large-Scale Projects (2h) Work on Project (2h).

Week 6: Images

16.10 :

(2h) FDH 2-7 : Image systems.

17.10 :

(2h) FDH 2-8 : Image processing (2h) Work on project.

(FDH 2-9 : Image understanding not done this year)


Week Off

23.10 :

No course

24.10 :

No Course

Week 7: Maps

30.10 :

(2h) FDH-2-10 Map systems

31.10 :

(2h) FDH-2-11 Map processing (Remi Petitpierre and Beatrice Vaienti) presentations (2h) Work on project

Week 8: 3D Models

06.11 :

(2h) FDH-2-12: 3D Models Systems and Encoding 07.11 :

(2h) FDH-2-13: 3D Models Processing : Alex Rusnak Thesis 

  (2h)Work on project

MidTerm Presentations

13.11 :

No course

14.11 Midterm presentations

Time Project name
10:20-10:40 Group 8
10:40-11:00 Group 9
11:00-11:20 Group 7
11:20-11:40 Group 6
11:40-12:00 Group 3
Time Project name
13:15-13:35 Group 2
13:35-13:55 Group 5
13:55-14:15 Group 4
14:15-14:35 Group 1
14:35-14:55 Group 10

Part III : Knowledge modelling and processing

Week 9 : Semantic modelling, Rule systems, simulations and parallel worlds

20.11 :

- (1h) FDH-3-0 Summary of the concept viewed so far and introduction to part 3

- (1h) FDH-3-1 Semantic modelling. RDF, Metaknowledge

21.11 :

(2h) FDH 3-2 Universal Ontologies

(2h) FDH 3-3 Rule systems, simulations and parallel worlds


Week 10 : Non conceptual knowledge systems and topological data science

27.11 :

(2h) FDH 3-4 Non conceptual knowledge systems

28.11 :

(2h) FDH 3-5 Topological data science / Publication of Study Guide (2h) Work on Projects

Part IV : Platforms

Week 12 : Data, User and Bot Management

4.12 :

(2h) Data Management  : FAIR principle, Creative Commons, Data Management models, Sustainability, Right to Forgotten. Management of uncertainty, incoherence and errors. Iconographic principle of precaution

5.12 :

(2h) User Management : Part I: Persona. Part II: Motivation and onboarding dynamics. Three case studies: Twitter. Quora. Wikipedia. Part III: "Wisdom" of the crowds. Collectivism vs Liberalism. Open source as a form of liberalism for engineering. The ambiguous of fork. Part IV: The "power" of the crowds. Mechanical Turk. Crowdflower. Crowdfunding.

(2h) Bot Management : Three case studies on bot management : Twitter, Wikipedia, Google.

Course Exam and Project work

11.12 In class exam

12.12 Work on project

Final Week : Project Presentation

18.12

-- Due: GitHub repository (10%)

-- Due: Report writing (40%)

19.12

(4h) Final project presentation (20%)

Resources

Assessment and Notation grid

  • (Group work) 2 oral presentations (30%)
    • 1 midterm presentation of the project (10%)
    • 1 final discussing the project result (20%)
  • (Group work) Written deliverables (Wiki writing) (20%)
  • (Group work) Quality of the project (30%)
  • (Individual work) Exam on Course Content (20%)

2 collective oral presentations (30%)

Midterm presenting the project planning (10%)

10' max presentation + 5' questions

Notation grid :

  • The presentation contains a planning (4)
  • + 0.5 The slides are clear and well presented
  • + 0.5 The oral presentation is dynamic and fluid
  • + 0.5 The planning is realistic.
  • + 0.5 The students answer well to the questions

Final discussing the project result (20%)

10-15' for presentation and 5-10' for questions

Notation grid :

  • The presentation presents the results of the project (4)
  • + 0.5 The slides are clear and well presented
  • + 0.5 The oral presentation is dynamic and fluid
  • + 0.5 The results are well discussed
  • + 0.5 The students answer well to the questions

Written deliverables (Wiki writing) (20%)

  • Project plan and milestones (5%) (>300 words)
  • Motivation and description of the deliverables (5%) (>300 words)
  • Detailed description of the methods (5%) (>500 words)
  • Quality assessment and discussion of limitations (5%) (>300 words)

The indicated number of words is a minimal bound. Detailed description can in particular be extended if needed.

Production (30%)

  • Quality of the realisation 20%
  • Code deliverable on github 10%


Exam on Course Content (20%)

  • A series of questions on the course to ensure the core concepts are understood.
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