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Project Brainstorming
Work in progress for figuring out team projects. These notes probably won't make sense to anyone but me.
Voluntary Associations
- 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
Graffiti 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?
Visual Course Scheduler
- 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