Ancient Graffiti

This is the home page for the ancient graffiti project.

Team Members:

• Onye Ekenta
• Ginny Huang
• Paul Jang
• Anton Reed

• Requirements Document
• WorkPlan

• Mockup homepage: http://cs.wlu.edu/~huangj/cs335/proj/
  
• Mockup: http://cs.wlu.edu/~ekentao/cs335/mockup.html
  
• Mockup Search page: http://cs.wlu.edu/~huangj/cs335/proj/mock-up-search.html

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Graffiti Statistics

• These are the inscriptions that I added to the database

• Drawings:
  • We want to be able to search for just drawings in the DB. For now, don't worry about searching for drawings by location, just finding all the drawings.
  • Some of the drawings have images on EAGLE; some of the drawings haven't been published yet, so they're not on the web site yet.
  • As we discussed previously, if an inscription has an associated image, we want a thumbnail on our page with a link to the actual image.
    • EDR124976 has an image that is loaded on EAGLE and I already put that link into our DB.
    • EDR128557 and maybe others also have images that should be added to the DB
  • Tags
    • I added tag categories to the database
    • Tag the images with one of those tag categories (when possible)
    • Modify the drawing search so that you can search by tag category

• Results:
  • I fixed my entries in the DB; however, there are still issues in the results–double check that the correct fields are being output.
  • Add image thumbnails as appropriate
  • Add a link to the inscription on Eagle. You should be able to figure out how to link to an inscription by checking out Eagle and using the Eagle id.
  • Some of the text is across multiple lines, but it only looks like one line on the web page because HTML collapses white space. You'll need to use line breaks to display the content correctly.

• Maps:
  • Professor Benefiel looked into copyright issues with the maps. It seems like it's going to be tricky. We may have to make our own maps, but we can't do that by the end of the term. Is it possible to get the “dark lines” only from the map of the city block?

• Your notes
  • You have the pictures of the flow and have notes about the other changes to the search page and maps necessary, so I'm not repeating them here

• The overall look of the web pages is much cleaner than for the static mock-up – much improved
• The map highlight is much cooler than I thought was possible in four weeks. Very nice.
• Good job making a database that you could use to start development before we had access to the “real” data. That's good problem-solving
• Good job with isolating the different features so you could make progress before trying to integrate. More good development practices
  • Professor Benefiel is intrigued by the development process and how we see problems differently than she does. She mentioned that it's interesting how we look at the smaller pieces.

• Results Page
  • The link in the top bar for the “Ancient Graffiti Project” should probably not be underlined, just for aesthetics
• Use a BasicDataSource, or at least use a ServletContextListener, to set up the Database so it's easier to configure the database
• Make sure all the pages that you do not want a user to directly access (e.g., responses to Servlets) are in the WEB-INF directory