5 credits
22.5 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
François Aurore;
Language
French
Prerequisites
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Main themes
Management and critical analysis of information are key skills for historians. The ability to deal with a corpus of data using powerful computer techniques is a necessary skill not only for studying history but also for the development of historical expertise in society. This course is designed to introduce students to the structuring of data on the entity-relationship model and to go through all the stages necessary to create a relational database.
The course will use concrete examples of corpora of varied documents, both with a rigid structure (registers, lists, directories, etc.) and without (speeches, correspondence, etc.).
The course will use concrete examples of corpora of varied documents, both with a rigid structure (registers, lists, directories, etc.) and without (speeches, correspondence, etc.).
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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Objective of the course: from the perspective of their seminar or thesis, to provide history students with the conceptual tools to enable them to better understand, structure and deal with information drawn from their sources. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Using examples of the resolution of practical cases, this course covers the main stages in the formation of a relational database:
- How to analyse the field of application (sources, issues...), design a data structure;
- How to create the structure in a database management system;
- How to design the tools and strategies to help the process of collection/encoding;
- How to retrieve information from the resulting corpus.
Teaching methods
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Evaluation methods
Written exam, partly computer-based
Other information
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Online resources
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Bibliography
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Faculty or entity
HIST
