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

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