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.