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Analyzing Ciceronian Networks with Gephi

By Caitlin Marley

Explore Cicero’s social network and learn to make your own network map. I will describe how we can map different social interactions in Cicero's letters, from the exchange of letters to gossip. I will also show you how to make quick visualizations of those interactions in Gephi. Come with the latest version of Gephi already downloaded; datasets will be provided to get participants started.

Make Your Own Ancient Studies Podcast

By Scott Aaron Lepisto

This workshop takes participants through every step of developing a podcast, from the idea phase through publication. It will cover conceptual, legal, and technical aspects, including audio editing using Audacity, operating a Zoom H4N portable audio recorder, and publishing through Libsyn, a podcast-hosting platform.

Mapping Text with Recogito

By Valeria Vitale

Learn to use Recogito, the free online tool developed by Pelagios that enables semantic annotations of digitised historical texts and images.

CommentarySandbox: Creating Custom Digital Commentaries for the Classroom

By Bret Mulligan

Do you write commentaries for (or with) your students? Or would you like to, but have been frustrated by the limitations and inefficiencies of using a word processing program to commentaries that display text, notes, and vocabulary? CommentarySandbox is a plugin for the WordPress CMS that mimics the easy-to-read format of Dickinson College Commentaries. With the plugin, you can quickly juxtapose notes and vocabulary (or other content) in tabs alongside a text.

From Stone to Screen and the DIY Method: Digitization, Integration, and You

By Chelsea Gardner

The From Stone to Screen project is an open-access digitization project founded in 2012 by graduate students at the University of British Columbia. Since its inception, it has evolved into a pedagogical resource for the study of ancient artifacts and epigraphic squeezes. This project has also been illustrative of the difficulties faced by small-scale DH projects with limited funding, and this presentation showcases some of the “DIY” solutions to these problems.