SEEDD + OMEKA FINAL PROJECT OPTION
for the course Archaeology of the Late Roman Empire
I offered this final project for my grad/undergrad course Archaeology of the Late Roman Empire, which I taught at FSU in Spring 2016.
FINAL PROJECT OPTION
Participation in the
Southeastern Europe Digital Documentation Project (SEEDD)
SEEDD is a digital initiative designed to better facilitate knowledge and research of the history and archaeology of the (later) Roman world in southeastern Europe by providing access to published material at a number of scales, from the transnational to the object level, as well as visualization for the purpose of geospatial manipulation and querying through a relational database.
Our goals for the project are threefold: intellectual, pedagogical, and collaborative.
You can participate in SEEDD and develop skills in digital literacy and active archaeological/art historical research: namely, by creating appendices for your final project according to the SEEDD schema, and using those appendices to develop a final project website that exhibits and explains your approach to those objects. This project exhibit website will become a part of SEEDD’s public face, and you will be credited not just as a contributor to the overall project but as paving the way for us to better assess the impact of the project, by demonstrating how we see the SEEDD initiative facilitating access to and interest in the late Roman archaeology of the southeastern European world. Once the online infrastructure is in place, your exhibits will become part of the project bibliography.
How it Works:
You will choose 3-5 objects – anything from fortification walls to aqueducts, sculptural programs on fountains to palace mosaics – to illustrate the thesis/question of your final project. The criteria that you use to select your objects are your prerogative, but they must come together to substantiate a coherent argument or theme. For example:
Elements of the Final Project
Participation in the
Southeastern Europe Digital Documentation Project (SEEDD)
SEEDD is a digital initiative designed to better facilitate knowledge and research of the history and archaeology of the (later) Roman world in southeastern Europe by providing access to published material at a number of scales, from the transnational to the object level, as well as visualization for the purpose of geospatial manipulation and querying through a relational database.
Our goals for the project are threefold: intellectual, pedagogical, and collaborative.
You can participate in SEEDD and develop skills in digital literacy and active archaeological/art historical research: namely, by creating appendices for your final project according to the SEEDD schema, and using those appendices to develop a final project website that exhibits and explains your approach to those objects. This project exhibit website will become a part of SEEDD’s public face, and you will be credited not just as a contributor to the overall project but as paving the way for us to better assess the impact of the project, by demonstrating how we see the SEEDD initiative facilitating access to and interest in the late Roman archaeology of the southeastern European world. Once the online infrastructure is in place, your exhibits will become part of the project bibliography.
How it Works:
You will choose 3-5 objects – anything from fortification walls to aqueducts, sculptural programs on fountains to palace mosaics – to illustrate the thesis/question of your final project. The criteria that you use to select your objects are your prerogative, but they must come together to substantiate a coherent argument or theme. For example:
- The Galerian program in Thessaloniki: image and architecture
- Wealth and charity in late antique bishops’ palaces in southeastern Europe
- Crossing borders: the infrastructure of travel in late Roman Illyricum, Dacia and Macedonia
- Roads to Rome: monumental gates in late Roman cities
- Ex novo foundations of the late Roman emperors in southeastern Europe
- Watering the cities of southeastern Europe: water infrastructure
- Iconography of dining in late Roman mosaics
Elements of the Final Project
- Appendix of objects adhering to SEEDD schema (= Object Metadata in Omeka)
- Project website/exhibit (1000-2000 words) on the class Omeka
- Introduction to your thesis question/theme
- Synthetic discussion of how your objects illustrate, complicate, and substantiate your thesis question/theme
- Conclusion stating how your analysis of these objects has furthered and/or comprehensively described scholarship on your thesis/theme
- Bibliography of 3-4 major sources for each object
- 1-2 paragraph reflection statement describing how the process of creating the appendix and using it as the foundation for your project website helped you approach and develop your thesis/theme.
- This can be submitted via email.
