Overview of Projects

Throughout the term, each student will work in one of three teams on one of the following projects. The projects will be accessible to the world at completion of the course so that you can include them in your portfolio for employers.

The general requirements for the project are available on the main course web site.

• Client: Dr. Sarah Bond, assistant professor of history at Marquette University
• 5 team members
• Final Deliverable: An interface to make ancient inscriptions (focusing on the voluntary associations) easily editable, searchable, and exportable
  • public views - searching, viewing, exporting
  • administrative views - edit
• Expected skills/technology leveraged during project: database access, manipulation, and updates; user interaction; access restrictions; usability; digital humanities
• Extensions: mapping, dynamic interaction, what can we learn?
• Collegium Project Proposal - a vision for the project
• Expected audience: scholars and students of the ancient world can use the tool to learn new information about the time period
• Voluntary Associations Development Home

• Client: Rebecca Benefiel, associate professor of classics at Washington and Lee University
• 4 team members
• Final Deliverable: An alternative search interface to the EAGLE database, focusing on inscriptions found in Pompeii and Herculaneum
  • Goal: Look at the inscriptions in context of the location
• Prototype will be demoed at Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) at the end of May
• Expected skills/technology leveraged during project: database access, manipulation, updates; remote database access; user interaction; usability; digital humanities
• Extension: Dynamic searching features
• Extension: Mapping component
• Extension: mining data for new information
  • relative numbers of text vs drawings?
  • size of inscriptions?
  • What do you think would be interesting?
• Expected audience: scholars and students of Pompeii and Herculaneum can use the tool to learn more about the culture at the time of Vesuvius's eruption.
• Ancient Graffiti Development Home

• Client: Sara Sprenkle
• Team Members: 5
• Final Deliverable: a visual course scheduler that makes it easy for students to visualize possible course schedules/alternatives
  • Don't look at this until after you have started thinking about your ideas
  • Challenge: viewing a variety of schedules and clearly marked conflicts
• Expected skills: database access, manipulation; user interaction; usability; dynamic behavior
• Extensions:
  • dynamic user interaction
  • closed courses, waitlisted courses
  • export schedules into some alternative form (iCal? Google calendar?)
  • ??? My guess is that the students will have a lot of ideas
• Expected audience: W&L students and faculty
• Course Scheduler Development Page