Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change,
in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
5 credits
22.5 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
François Aurore;
Language
French
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. At the end of the course, students will be introduced to the principles according to which an information system functions, and will be able to undertake a project to design a historical database (structuring the data, entering it onto database management software, creation of encoding forms, requests). |
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
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.
Theoretical presentations, case analysis and resolution of exercises, including computer-based exercises
Evaluation methods
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.
Written exam, partly computer-based
Faculty or entity
HIST
