Required
Ammon, F. R. (2018). “Digital Humanities and the Urban Built Environment: Preserving the Histories of Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation,” Preservation Education and Research 10: 11-30. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/571e2597c2ea511fcc107863/t/5b32414af950b7b7fc07cab6/1530020435357/
Barker, Elton (2021). On space, place, and form in Herodotus’ Histories. Histos 15, 88–130. https://histos.org/index.php/histos/article/view/469
Barker, Elton, Palladino, Chiara, and Gordin, Shai. (2024). Digital approaches to investigating space and place in Classical Studies. The Classical Review, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23002858
Harley, J. B. (1988). Maps, knowledge, and power. In: D. Cosgrove & S. Daniels (eds.), The iconography of landscape: Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments (pp. 277–312). Cambridge: CUP. https://public.archive.wsu.edu/ericsson/public_html/Hartley_ch2.pdf
Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 279–92. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/07154de9-4903-428e-9c61-7a92a6f22e51?
Zaytseva, Ksenia, and Matej Ďurčo. Controlled Vocabularies and SKOS. DARIAH-Campus, 2020. https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/hosted/controlled-vocabularies-and-skos
Additional readings
The Vrysaki neighborhood
https://visualresources.princeton.edu/research-support/projects
Aspasia Efstathiou and Pia Kvarnstöm: Homer A. Thompson Collection https://visualresources.princeton.edu/posts/2024/aspasia-efstathiou-and-pia-kvarnst%C3%B6m-homer-thompson-collection#:-:text=aspa
Sylvie Dumont lecture https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/events/details/vrysaki-the-revival-of-a-neighborhood
Sylvie Dumont podcast (in Greek) https://www.lifo.gr/podcasts/istoria-mias-polis/brysaki-i-hameni-geitonia-toy-kentroy-tis-athinas
Cheirchanteri, G. 2021. Recording, Documentation and Sustainable Development in Cultural Heritage Buildings. Athens building maintenance (1830-1940), SMC magazine, 14, https://www.sustainablemediterraneanconstruction.eu/en/rivista/2021-14/2021-14-111/
The Charta of Greece
Livieratos E. (2008), On the cartography of Rigas Charta, e-Perimetron, Vol. 3, No 3, 120-145 [pdf]
Manoledakis M. (2008), Ancient sites on Righa’s Charta. Some remarks based on the case of central Macedonia, e-Perimetron, Vol. 3, No 3, 161-172 [pdf]
Tolias G. (2008), Antiquarianism, Patriotism and Empire. Transfer of the cartography of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger, 1788-1811, e-Perimetron, Vol. 3, No 3, 101-119 [pdf]
Data
Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 279–92. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/07154de9-4903-428e-9c61-7a92a6f22e51?
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text. 36.4 (2018): 57–79
Mattern, Shannon Christine. “A City is Not a Computer” in A City Is Not a Computer : Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. https://placesjournal.org/article/a-city-is-not-a-computer/
Katsianis, M., Lampraki, S., Theocharaki, A.-M., Pigaki, M., Costaki, L., & Papaefthimiou, E. 2018. Reconnecting a Fragmented Monument through Digital Mapping: The City Walls of Athens. Studies in Digital Heritage, 2(2), 177-195. https://doi.org/10.14434/sdh.v2i2.24440.
Mapping, Visualization and the Spatial Humanities
Avram, G., Ciolfi, L., & Maye, L. (2019). Creating tangible interactions with cultural heritage: lessons learned from a large scale, long term co-design project. CoDesign, 16(3), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2019.1596288
Bodenhamer, David, Corrigan, John, & Harris, Trevor (eds.), (2010). The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Indiana: Indiana UP.
Drucker, Johanna (2011). Humanities approaches to graphical display. Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1.
Dunn, Stuart. (2019). A History of Place in the Digital Age. London: Routledge.
Gillings, M., Hacıgüzeller, P. & Lock, G. (2020). Archaeology and spatial analysis. In: Archaeological Spatial Analysis: a Methodological Guide (2020), 10–11.
Gregory, I. N. & Geddes, A. (2014). Towards Spatial Humanities: Historical GIS and Spatial History.
Gregory, I. N. & Healey, R.G. (2007). Historical GIS: structuring, mapping and analysing geographies of the past. Progress in Human Geography 31, 638–53.
Harley, J. B. (1988). Maps, knowledge, and power. In: D. Cosgrove & S. Daniels (eds.), The iconography of landscape: Essays on the symbolic representation, design and use of past environments (pp. 277–312). Cambridge: CUP. https://public.archive.wsu.edu/ericsson/public_html/Hartley_ch2.pdf
Harris, T., Bergeron, S. & Rouse, L. (2011). Humanities GIS: place, spatial storytelling, and immersive visualization in the humanities. In: M. Dear et al. (eds.), GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, 226–40.
Harris, Trevor (2015). Deep geography—deep mapping: spatial storytelling and a sense of place.” In: David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan & Trevor M. Harris (eds.). Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 28–53.
Karagiannopoulou, M. 2021. Walk the wall Athens: an experiential walk in the city. LCM Journal 8 (1), 171-184. https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/article/view/2404/1466
Katsianis, M. & Gadolou, E. 2024. Archaeological and cultural heritage web mapping resources: linking the Greek experience with wider research considerations. Archaeological Reports 70: 213–238. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0570608424000036.
Porter, C., Milligan, R. & Lilley, K. (2020). Hidden geographies and digital humanities: analysing and visualising the literary corpus of Humphrey Llwyd. Literary Geographies 6, 96–118.
Reckziegel, M., Wrisley, D. J., Hixson, T. W., & Jänicke, S. (2021). Visual exploration of historical maps, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36 (Supplement 2), ii251–ii272, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa059
Rees, G. (2025). Designing for discovery: using web maps in the digital humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly 19(4). https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000819/000819.html
Taylor, J. E. et al. (2018). Mapping digitally, mapping deep: exploring digital literary geographies. Literary Geographies 4, 10–19.
Francesca Russello Ammon. “Digital Humanities and the Urban Built Environment: Preserving the Histories of Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation,” Preservation Education and Research 10 (2018): 11-30. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/571e2597c2ea511fcc107863/t/5b32414af950b7b7fc07cab6/1530020435357/
Mapping the Ancient World
Barker, Elton, Isaksen, Leif & Ogden, Jess (2016). Telling stories with maps: digital experiments with Herodotean geography. In: Barker et al. (eds.), New Worlds out of Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford: OUP, 181–224.
Barker, Elton (2021). On space, place, and form in Herodotus’ Histories. Histos 15, 88–130. https://histos.org/index.php/histos/article/view/469
Barker, Elton, Palladino, Chiara, and Gordin, Shai. (2024). Digital approaches to investigating space and place in Classical Studies. The Classical Review, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23002858
Dueck, D. (2012) Geography in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge: CUP.
Elliott, Tom & Gillies, Sean (2009). Digital Geography and Classics. Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.
Jasnow, B., Evans, C. and Clay, J. S. (2018). Poetic and geographical organization in the Catalogue of Ships. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 148, 1–44.
Palladino, Chiara (2018). Spazi Antichi e Futuri Possibili: La Geografia Classica Nelle Digital Humanities. Futuro Classico, 149–77.
Palladino, Chiara (2019). Review of Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Model of the Roman World. Society of Classical Studies, Digital Humanities Reviews Series.
Palladino, Chiara (2021). Representing places in texts: a spatial investigation into Agathemerus, Sketch of Geography. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15, 261–79.
Raaflaub, K. A. & R. J. A. Talbert (eds.) (2010). Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies. Chicago.
Talbert, Richard & Elliott, Tom (2002). Mapping the Ancient World. In: A. K. Knowles (ed.), Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, 145–62.
Linked Data and Annotation as Critical Practice
Barker, E. T. E. et al. (2023). Journeying through space and time with Pausanias’s
Description of Greece. Literary Geographies 9, 124–60.
Bizer, C., Heath, T. & Berners-Lee, T. (2009). Linked Data: the story so far. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 5, 1–22.
Depauw, M. and Gheldof, T. (2014). Trismegistos: an interdisciplinary platform for ancient world texts and related information. In: Bolikowski et al. (eds.), Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2013 Selected Workshops, 40–52.
Dunn, S. & Vitale, V. (2021). Linking texts and maps: annotation as a critical tool for teaching in the Spatial Humanities. Literary Geographies 7, 292-310.
Hyvönen, E. (2012). Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web.
Kahn, R. et al. (2021). Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part II: From Community to Association. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15, 85–100.
Kiesling, J. B., Foka, A., Konstantinidou, K., Talatas, L, & Barker, E. T. E. (2025): Structuring the sights and stories of Pausanias with Wikidata. In: LaMonica, C. & Foka, A. (eds), Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics. Routledge, 17-31. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003584155
Middle, S., Aristeidou, M., Barker, E., Pett, D. & Alcock, S. (2025). Discovering object stories: linking unstructured museum data through semantic annotation. Journal of Open Humanities Data 11, 1–13.
O’Doherty, M. (2021). Medieval traditions, new technologies: Linked Open Geodata and Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15, 60–84.
Palladino, C. et al. (2019). Using Linked Open Data to navigate the past: an experiment in teaching archaeology. In: Proceedings of the DH2019 Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht (the Netherlands) July 9–12.
Palladino, C. (2023). Not the same landscape. Rediscussing digital approaches to spatial knowledge systems. In: C. Palladino & G. Bodard (eds.), Can’t Touch This.
Petrulevich, A. & Skovgaard Boeck S. (eds.) (2023). Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies.
Simon, R. et al. (2017). Linked Data annotation without the pointy brackets: introducing Recogito 2. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries 13, 111-132.
Vitale, V. et al. (2021). Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 15, 5–32.
Controlled Vocabularies
Harpring, Patricia. Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies: Terminology for Art, Architecture, and Other Cultural Works. Getty Research Institute, 2010. https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/160606018X.html
Zaytseva, Ksenia, and Matej Ďurčo. Controlled Vocabularies and SKOS. DARIAH-Campus, 2020. https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/hosted/controlled-vocabularies-and-skos
Gkadolou, Eleni, and Poulicos Prastacos. “Historical Cartographic Information for Cultural Heritage Applications in a Semantic Framework.” Cartographica 56, no. 4, 2021. https://utppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3138/cart-2021-0002
Gkadolou, Eleni, and Emmanuel Stefanakis. 2013. “A Formal Ontology for Historical Maps.” In Proceedings of the 26th International Cartographic Conference, Dresden, Germany, 2013. https://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2013/_extendedAbstract/182_proceeding.pdf
Data Wrangling
Google Sheets: Web-based spreadsheet application with data wrangling functionality.
OpenRefine: Is a powerful free, open-source tool for working with messy data. It helps minimize human error as you edit your data. It also allows you to explore patterns that may be challenging to find without the assistance of the computer.
Gazetteers
GeoNames: A free geographical database (gazetteer) that provides standardized geographic information, such as coordinates, place names, administrative divisions, and feature types.
Pleiades: A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
World Historical Gazetteer: A platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language.
PeriodO: Α public domain gazetteer of scholarly definitions of historical, art-historical, and archaeological periods.
Geo-referencing/rectification
Allmaps: A free tool that allows your to geo-reference IIIF images and further annotate maps.
MapWarper: A free to use, open-source map warper / map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool for individuals and small groups.
Geo-referencing
RecogitoStudio: An extensible platform for collaborative, standards-based annotation of TEI Text, IIIF images, and PDFs with a geo-tagging plugin that enables seamless linking to geographic entities via gazetteers and other semantic resources.
Geocoding
Geocodio: A geocoding platform that utilizes tabular data. The platform works with coordinates, addresses, and place names in the United States and Canada.
GPS Visualizer Geocoder: This tool can provide coordinates throughout the world for current places and addresses.
Mapping
ArcGIS Online: Users may first be overwhelmed by the numbers of features and possibilities, but dedicated learning can result in powerful and informative maps.
ArcGIS StoryMaps: A digital storytelling tool that is part of the ArcGIS Online suite of tools.
Carto: GIS cloud service that allows for free access with an educator account.
DARIAH-DE Geo-Browser: a tool for visualizing and comparing spatial and temporal data through interactive maps and timelines.
Folium: Python library that generates leaflet maps with Python code.
geojson.io: geojson.io is a helpful open-source tool for creating, and editing spatial data. With geojson.io, you can quickly create new datasets, edit existing ones, and export your work for use in other applications.
Google Earth: A more robust version of Google My Maps with 3D views.
Google My Maps: A good way to get started with mapping. It allows for placing points manually, drawing polygons and lines, and stylizing what you map.
kepler.gl: Open-source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
leaflet.js: JavaScript library that allows users to produce lightweight, interactive maps.
Palladio: A suite of visualization and analysis tools designed by scholars to ask and answer research questions.
Re:Earth: Free, open, and highly extensible webGIS platform.
StoryMapJS: A free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
Tableau Public: A free version of Tableau, a data visualization platform that allows for map making.
Vocabularies and semantic standards
BARTOC: Registry for discovering controlled vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies and other knowledge organization systems. Useful when looking for existing vocabulary resources before creating local terms.
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus – AAT: Structured vocabulary for art, architecture and cultural heritage concepts. An example of a controlled vocabulary.
UNESCO Vocabulary Services: Controlled and structured list of concepts used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, social and human sciences, communication and information.
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System): A standard data model for representing controlled vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies and concept schemes in a machine readable form. SKOS is not itself a vocabulary, it is a way to structure and publish vocabularies.
CIDOC CRM (Conceptual Reference Model): An ontology and reference model for cultural heritage information.
VocBench: Web based collaborative platform για managing controlled vocabularies, ontologies, thesauri, SKOS/SKOS-XL and RDF datasets.
Skosify: Tool για conversion, cleaning, validation and enrichment of SKOS vocabularies.
Software Installation / Accounts
To participate fully in the hands-on activities, please install the following software before the Summer School begins:
GitHub Desktop
To facilitate your use of GitHub, please download their desktop client. Use the instructions below:
Step 1: Install GitHub Desktop
- Navigate to GitHub Desktop and download the appropriate version of GitHub Desktop for your operating system.
- Follow the prompts to complete the installation. For more information, see Installing GitHub Desktop.
- Sign in to your Github.com account via the GitHub Desktop prompt.
- Select authorize after reviewing access prompt.
- When viewing configure git prompt, select use my GitHub account name and email address.
- Clickfinish
- Arrive at Let’s get started.prompt.
Step 2: Configure a Default Text Editor
- In the menu bar of your desktop client, select GitHub Desktop, then clickSettings.
- In the Settings window, selectIntegrations.
- Under “External Editor”, use the dropdown menu to select Visual Studio Code to set as your default text editor.
- ClickSave.
Visual Studio Code
We recommend downloading [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/). Please confirm that your computer meets the [system requirements](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/extensions/extension-marketplace).
The following [VS Code extensions](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/extensions/extension-marketplace) will expand the capabilities of VS code and make it easier for you to work with our course materials:
– [Rainbow CSV](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mechatroner.rainbow-csv)
– [Live Server](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer)
– [Edit CSV](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=janisdd.vscode-edit-csv)
– [Code Spell Checker](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker)
OpenRefine
[OpenRefine](https://openrefine.org/download)
Please create accounts for the following platforms:
GitHub
[GitHub](https://github.com/)
RecogitoStudio
[RecogitoStudio](https://recogito.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/en/sign-in) We will use the Austrian Academy of Sciences instance (instructions will be provided separately).
Aslanoglou, A., Barker, E. T. E., Carloni, M., Ilvanidou, M., & Dritsou, V. Controlled Vocabulary for Annotation of Historical Maps [Workflow]. SSH Open Marketplace. Retrieved June 11, 2026, from https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/PznDtD
Ilvanidou, M., Ďurčo, M., Carloni, M., Barker, E. T. E., Aslanoglou, A., & Dritsou, V. Collaborative reusable map annotation [Workflow]. SSH Open Marketplace. Retrieved June 11, 2026, from https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/9bQPbB
Kapralos, N., Aslanoglou, A., Barker, E. T. E., Ilvanidou, M., Carloni, M., Ďurčo, M., Charvát, V. M. Geotagging of Texts [Workflow]. SSH Open Marketplace. Retrieved June 11, 2026, from https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/kkw2sz
Mapping the Vrysaki neighborhood
This hands-on workshop uses objects from the [Messinesi Photographs Collection](https://collections.visualresources.princeton.edu/Detail/collections/SR-000072) which is part of the [Homer A. Thompson Collection](https://collections.visualresources.princeton.edu/Detail/collections/C-000008) house in [Visual Resources Collections](https://collections.visualresources.princeton.edu/) of Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology.
– [Messinesi’s Vrysaki map](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12RmvBg2FuVRsE2zt3FMdSTLkNdjJXPtC/view?usp=sharing)
– [Messinesi photographs](https://collections.visualresources.princeton.edu/Detail/collections/SR-000072)
– [Photograph metadata](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13xqRrNvbaLjc9-Y4nlw4tmk_MOvztjrG/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116101538266549657748&rtpof=true&sd=true)
Collaborative map annotation
The hands-on session on collaborative map annotation uses historical map datasets provided by two ATRIUM partners, the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW), and curated by ATHENA RC:
- PSNC dataset: Approximately 2,000 historical maps compiled by PSNC and sourced from the Digital Library of the University of Wrocław through the FBC Polish digital library aggregator operated by PSNC.
- OAW dataset: approximately 500 pre-1800 historical maps from the Woldan Collection, made available through OAW Digital Collections.