Voluntary Associations

This is the main page for organizing the Fall 2011/Winter 2012 CSCI403: Automatically Gathering Inscriptions from Multiple Online Sources

• David Margolies, Winter 2012 Lead Developer
• Riley Jordan, Fall 2011 Lead Developer

Many DBs with inscriptions, but they're not centralized and easily searchable

• Automatically collect data from multiple online sources
• Create a DB for the inscriptions
• Create an interface to make data easily editable, exportable

Collegium Project Proposal - a vision for the project

Fall 2011 Schedule

• Familiarize yourself with project
• Read the project proposal (under Specifications)
  • Mostly for motivation and problem; Loose description of project
• Go to Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg
  • Click Search under Epigraphic Text Database
  • Click Simple-search
  • Enter “collegi” under “String 1” in part D
    • You'll get all inscriptions that contain “collegi”

• Learn Python: (First 4-5 weeks of CSCI 111 - I/O, basic assignments, arithmetic, for loops, if statements, string operations)

• Learn Python (Next

• Professor Bond's links page
• Text Encoding Initiative
• EpiDoc

• Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg
• Epigraphische Datenbank Clauss

• Ottoman Inscriptions

• Search in Heidelberg DB for “collegi”
• Search in Clauss DB for “societ”

• Can we automatically classify any of the inscriptions with their trades, deities, types of association?
• Can we automatically generate any of the drop down lists?