Ancient Graffiti Project

Overview

The goal of the Ancient Graffiti Project is to provide a digital resource so that users can explore the ancient graffiti in Herculaneum and Pompeii.

admin interface to make changes to the inscriptions
- Enter the metadata about the inscriptions
- Update information about the insula, properties
ability to generate reports from database
incorporate a “Greatest Hits” (e.g., where a Latin teacher could go to get our favorites, so she doesn’t have to wade through all the others)
on the search results page, show how many results were found, e.g., returning 6 inscriptions out of 459
Allow tags of all graffiti – for both categorization and searching
- tags are at a more detailed level than categories. For example, we could tag a graffito as “stag” while its category is “animals”. We can tag other graffiti as “poetry” or “messages”, for example, based on its content.
- How should this be integrated into the search functionality?
open API to export data as JSON and/or as XML
- Example: can export all the figural graffiti at once
- Will have a user interface to this data but can also access through a web service/URL