====== Graffiti in Ancient Rome ======

This [[http://ancientgraffiti.wlu.edu|work-in-progress]] seeks to explore the relationships of the graffiti in ancient Rome, specifically in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Our goals are 
  * to explore the relationships between inscriptions on a variety of scales (within a house, a city-block, the city)
  * to improve visualization of the inscriptions, including location of inscriptions, to help researchers find new stories to tell about the people of ancient Rome

===== Prototype =====

A team of students enrolled in [[http://www.cs.wlu.edu/~sprenkle/cs335|CSCI335: Software Engineering via Web Applications]] worked on a [[http://ancientgraffiti.wlu.edu|prototype implementation]] of the application using insula I.8 in Pompeii.  We are currently refining the requirements and goals of this project and working on collecting the data to be used by the application.

===== Our Role =====

This digital humanities project allows computer science students to work in collaboration with an actual client, actual users, and learn advanced software development techniques and web applications.  The [[webapptesting:home|Web Application Testing Lab]] can then use the developed application as a subject in evaluating new testing techniques.