Project Brainstorming

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

• Client: Dr. 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
• Expected audience: ancient scholars and students can use the tool to learn new information about the time period

• 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 audience: W&L students and faculty
• Expected skills:
• Expected outcome: a tool that students across W&L can use