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A path designed to create new humanistic and scientific-IT skills. Cocco: “We continue the collaboration begun in 2017 to preserve, through digitalisation, the treasures of Cittadella degli Archives"

Milan, October 13 2019 – The II level Master's Degree in Digital Humanities will start on 9 March 2020, which the Department of Historical Studies and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milan will activate in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan.

The municipal council has in fact approved the participation of the municipal administration as a partner in the new course of studies which will allow master's graduates with skills in the historical, archival, philological, linguistic, philosophical and IT fields to acquire specific professional skills aimed at disseminating and to the conscious use and interpretation of sources (documents, codes, printed volumes, letters, objects, collections of personal documents preserved in libraries, archives, museums) using the most up-to-date digital programming and communication tools.

“Joining the Master as a partner – comments councilor Roberta Cocco (Digital Transformation and Civic Services) – is the natural continuation of a collaboration begun in 2017 between the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan and our archive municipality, the Citadel of Archives. Students, teachers and researchers supported the reorganization, digitalisation, valorisation and dissemination of municipal documentary funds and together we managed to carry out many cultural projects, including those of national and international importance. This new opportunity will allow us to continue in the mutual exchange of professionalism and in pursuing the common objective of preserving the treasures of the municipal archive thanks to digitalisation, making them accessible to the general public".

The II level Master's in Digital Humanities, which can be accessed by 25 students, is aimed at both recent graduates and professionals already in the world of work, such as archivists, librarians, museum curators, computer scientists and journalists who want to delve deeper into information technology practices humanities in order to design, build and manage research sites and promote highly innovative, comparative and transversal studies through the integration of knowledge.

The involvement of the municipal administration will focus, in particular, on the use of the spaces in via Gregorovius 15, home of the Citadel of Archives, for the carrying out of practical activities, on the support of teaching activities through qualified personnel, in addition to the identification of one or more institutional and technological partners and the promotion of the Master in the appropriate venues.

The Municipality of Milan will therefore be able to have highly trained students available for numerous hours of training for the digitization and computerization of its services and archives.