Collegium Project

This is the home page for the collegium project/voluntary associations project.

Team Members:

• Connor Hollenbeck
• Patrick Jennings
• Olivier Mahame
• Cathy Wang
• Quentin Zdanis

• Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (Latin)
• Searchable Greek Inscriptions

• Requirements
• Work Plan
• Design Doc

• Home Page
• Advanced Search
• Example Search Results
• Detailed View

Collegium Statistics

• Good job on the preliminary implementation
  • Figured out many issues, questions for client
• Learned about an implicit requirement (didn't come out earlier) – adding a new inscription; good that you already have a good start to the implementation of that requirement
• Seems like you know the next steps, and they are relatively straightforward, with the possible exception of the mapping part (which is the really cool part)

• To make DB set up easier, put all DB set up into one file, e.g., reading the parameters from web.xml and setting up a BasicDataSource in a ServletContextListener.
  • Using this approach, the creation of the DB is the responsibility of one class (not several classes) and it's easier to change the DB location
• Make sure all the pages that you do not want a user to directly access (e.g., responses to Servlets) are in the WEB-INF directory
• Move code into appropriate packages (e.g., collegium.servlets) – don't use the default package
• We discussed some other suggestions during the meeting (e.g., the revised header; only showing part of the longer inscriptions' texts, passing the trunk test, etc.)
  • add an about page – about the project and about the developers – include your names, links to your home pages, etc.
  • if appropriate, add a page about the code you have used from others
• I think the label should be “Transcription” rather than “Original Text”. Like we talked about in class, I don't think that's necessarily the original text but rather what people think the text is meant to say.

• Advanced search – allow more than one option to be selected
• Search through the text?

I added some more data to the inscriptions so that they're more populated.

• In what order are the inscriptions displayed? I thought it was inscription id order, but it doesn't appear to be that.
• Where is the date field coming from? I edited inscription with hd_number='HD000718' with its correct date (which I got from the EDH), and the date didn't show up on the search results page or the detailed inscriptions page.
• It doesn't seem like the deities are showing up (e.g., for inscription 187)