Choose Your Own Adventure Workshop

The “Choose Your Own Adventure: Digital Methods for Byzantinists” workshop was part of the partnership between the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Byzantine Studies Association of North America to provide professional development opportunities to graduate students and early career researchers. The event took place via Zoom on October 22, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 pm EST.

Use these links to download Slides from the talk, Handout 1 (with pre-workshop tasks), and Handout 2 (Omeka steps with links to the demo site and sample CSV dataset). You can also view the Byzantine Digital Humanities demo site built using Omeka.

We didn’t have much time during the workshop to discuss environmental scans. Here are a few resources that discuss the process of surveying existing work and framing how your digital project fits into the larger conversation. (Conceptually this is not much different from a thesis or dissertation). For a digital project, don’t just look at content. Try examining projects with similar methods, tools, resources, and timelines to what you’d like to accomplish. For further reading, see this NEH blog post, an ACH discussion forum, and an extensive workflow.