Description

Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates

PhD students will have to follow a training course, organized according to the following model:

1. Attend the lessons that will be delivered ad hoc and which will be organized in seminar packages with respect to the (transversal) disciplines and the digital and computational methods necessari for the construction of the identity of the PhD students, as designed by the course (minimum attendance 20 hours per year);
2. Attend some courses in other higher education realities (e.g. LM degree courses), which will be agreed with the tutor and which will be useful in filling the gaps, both on the basis of the original training (second cycle degree/master achieved), and of the research project that each PhD student intends to carry out (minimum attendance 10 hours per year);
3. Attend the lessons that will be held by foreign colleagues, both intended as the international members of the College and other guests, invited by the members of the College or by the Didactic Commission of the Doctorate (minimum 3 seminars per year to follow).

PhD students will also be required to:
1. Participate in conferences, seminars, and other cultural initiatives, national or international, that will be agreed with the tutor (at least one event per year);
2. Participate in the activities of the research centers in which the professors of the College are involved (at least 10 documented hours);
3. Carry out practical laboratory activities (at least 20 hours);
4. Optionally carry out an activity, in the form of an internship, in one of the companies identified by the College - see PE5 of the PNRR - (at least 3 months).

Research training activities

The activities will be organized in order to guarantee knowledge and skills necessary to manage the huge domain of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, adding actions to acquire the necessary critical awareness of the "workflow" of digital systems, or also the "lifecycle" of heritage objects (acquisition or capture, creation, enrichment, analysis, interpretation, conservation, dissemination). To enrich the disciplinary training, other courses for the acquisition of transversal skills on some important topics, will be delivered: e.g. project management; data management plan; culture and creativity; self-employment; public speaking; communication; project work; collaborative work; critical thinking; dialogical literacy; community engagement.

Internationalization features

The course is qualified for the highly interdisciplinary path it undertakes, both in the choice of topics and in the selection of College members, following the international guidelines for research on cultural heritage in the digital ecosystem. Some parameters identify the internationalization features of the PhD:
1. Close collaboration with the Una Europa consortium (European Doctorate on Cultural Heritage), already involving colleagues from the Consortium universities among the members of the college;
2. An offer intended as a natural continuation of training in interdisciplinary fields already well-known by students coming from abroad, where cross-disciplinary training is the added value of the profile;
3. The personal relationships of the College's members with international colleagues, with whom a collaboration is already in place; Erasmus conventions and exchanges already active; contacts with international research centers: e.g. for DH, the EADH and ADHO Associations, the DARIAH infrastructure, the Center for e-humanities (Cologne), the Department of Digital Humanities of King's College (London), TTEM (Paris), Octet (Oxford), Mundaneum (Mons), Bibliotheca disciplined International Forum (Brazil), Center for the Fine Print (University of West England - Bristol), WAB (University of Bergen), University of
Haifa, The Stirling Center for Publishing and Communication (Stirling Univ.), South African Department of Computer Science.
4. The precious and vast cultural heritage preserved in Italy, leveraging its high level of interest in the international environment;
5. The development of innovative research methods and digitization models, potentially replicable in other countries, designing new systems, environments, solutions, in the domain of "FAIRification", with a widely reuse approach in an Open Science context.

Expected research results and products

Doctoral students will be required to present the results of their work year by year to the College, during a joint meeting of the College and the Didactic Commission. PhD students will also be encouraged to organize internal seminars for sharing projects, research lines, and potential outputs. The final work of the PhD students will consist in writing a thesis, in Italian or in English, preferably of an experimental nature and which can also foresee practical implications - such as modeling, development, implementation or prototyping of environments, tools, models, architectures or applications. PhD students are also required:
1. to participate in at least one conference as speakers starling from the second year of the Doctorate and
2. to write at least two scientific papers over the three-year period, preferably as articles
a) in conference proceedings or b) in Class A journal with respect to the scientific field of reference.