SEEDD
The Southeast Europe Digital Documentation Project
SEEDD is a digital initiative designed to better facilitate knowledge and research of the history and archaeology of the 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 read more about the initiative on the project website, www.theseeddproject.org.
For a detailed description of my experience implementing the SEEDD metadata schema and mission in the classroom as (what I would consider a highly successful) pedagogical tool, see SEEDD in the Classroom in my teaching portfolio. Working together on SEEDD inspired Anne Chen (Brown University) and I to (successfully!) propose a 2017 AIA colloquium session on Current Work in the Roman Archaeology of Southeast Europe. We'll be in Toronto in January 2017 with a great line-up of speakers and what promises to be an invigorating discussion. For those of you who wish to join us in the discussion over the course of several days in Toronto, I also encourage you to attend Unlocking the Provinces: Defining and Prioritizing Roman Provincial Studies, which Anne organized with several other colleagues to take place immediately before the AIA annual meeting.
In Spring 2017, I will collaborate with the Florida State University Office of Digital Research and Scholarship on an implementation plan for SEEDD through their Digital Project Incubator. While this is a wonderful opportunity to work with digital humanities experts on strategies for adhering to metadata standards, complying with open and linked data standards, and planning data acquisition and storage in the database in the most efficient way, it will also provide us with an in-hand plan for getting SEEDD off the ground and into the cloud as soon as possible when we (hopefully!) settle in at a new, more permanent position in the fall of 2017.
Our goals for the project are threefold: intellectual, pedagogical, and collaborative. You can read more about the initiative on the project website, www.theseeddproject.org.
For a detailed description of my experience implementing the SEEDD metadata schema and mission in the classroom as (what I would consider a highly successful) pedagogical tool, see SEEDD in the Classroom in my teaching portfolio. Working together on SEEDD inspired Anne Chen (Brown University) and I to (successfully!) propose a 2017 AIA colloquium session on Current Work in the Roman Archaeology of Southeast Europe. We'll be in Toronto in January 2017 with a great line-up of speakers and what promises to be an invigorating discussion. For those of you who wish to join us in the discussion over the course of several days in Toronto, I also encourage you to attend Unlocking the Provinces: Defining and Prioritizing Roman Provincial Studies, which Anne organized with several other colleagues to take place immediately before the AIA annual meeting.
In Spring 2017, I will collaborate with the Florida State University Office of Digital Research and Scholarship on an implementation plan for SEEDD through their Digital Project Incubator. While this is a wonderful opportunity to work with digital humanities experts on strategies for adhering to metadata standards, complying with open and linked data standards, and planning data acquisition and storage in the database in the most efficient way, it will also provide us with an in-hand plan for getting SEEDD off the ground and into the cloud as soon as possible when we (hopefully!) settle in at a new, more permanent position in the fall of 2017.
