Constantinopolitana: A Database of East Rome [CDER] is a relational database of everything known about Constantinople. The objects, people, buildings, and events are spatially and temporally linked together to create what is essentially a digital map of Constantinople using the research environment nodgoat. To conceptualize potential ways to link the data, the categories places, people, literature, manuscripts, statues, and seals were created. The places category was based on a previous iteration of this project, Constantinople as Palimpsest (CPal), which was originally created using ArcGIS before being transferred to Nodegoat.
Find out more in this blogpost, written by student researchers: Constantinopolitana: A Database of East Rome
Check out other blogposts related to the CDER project:
CDER Project Update: Mapping Byzantine Seals and People, by Alex Williams
Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference: Traveler’s Lab Presentations, by Vasilia Yordanova