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.

• 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