Project Brainstorming

Work in progress for figuring out team projects. These notes probably won't make sense to anyone but me.

• Client: Sarah Bond, assistant professor of history at Marquette University
• 5 team members
• Goal: Create an interface to make ancient inscriptions easily editable, searchable, and exportable
  • public views - searching, viewing, exporting
  • administrative views - edit
• Expected skills/technology: DB manipulation, user interaction, access restrictions
• Extensions: mapping, dynamic interaction, what can we learn?
• Collegium Project Proposal - a vision for the project

• Client: Rebecca Benefiel, associate professor of classics at Washington and Lee University
• 4 team members
• 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
• Extensions: Dynamic searching features
• Extensions: Mapping component
• Extensions: mining data for new information
  • relative numbers of text vs drawings?
  • size of inscriptions?
  • What do you think would be interesting?

• Client: Sara Sprenkle
• Team Members: 5
• Goal: 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
• Expected skills:
• Expected outcome: a tool that students across W&L can use

National Science Foundation grant winners have to submit annual reports to NSF. The report describes the various activities and results from the past year. Often winners get to that time, and forget what all they did that year.

They need a way to enter activities, tag them based on the nsf research.gov categories of where it will get reported in the final report, and any other information about the task, e.g., when complete, who completed it, how many people involved,…

Then when they have to write the report, they could search on particular tags for certain date ranges and get a start of a report of activities that they can then just smooth out into paragraphs.

It would be a web interface that is private to only those people we are allowed to enter data and create reports, basically the PIs on the grant.

Categories of activities:

• education
• research
• outreach
• publications
• outcomes

I have an example report, but I don't want to post it online.

Could use similar fields/information for W&L faculty's Faculty Activity Reports.