Overview
[AI Summary]: Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies hosted a five-day summer institute workshop in Athens where nine graduate students from Princeton and Greece used digital mapping tools to reconstruct the Vrysaki neighborhood, demolished in the 1930s for Agora excavation. Participants worked with M. Messinesi’s 75 photographs from Princeton’s Visual Resources collection, learned geo-referencing, data wrangling with OpenRefine, and created interactive maps using ArcGIS StoryMaps and LeafletJS. The workshop demonstrated cross-disciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, historians, computer scientists, and curators, fostering critical engagement with spatial humanities methods and digital cultural heritage preservation.
- Published: October 20, 2025
- Author: Kirstin Ohrt
- Workshop Dates: Summer 2025
- Location: Princeton Athens Center