Thinking Like a Computer Scien4st About Ancient Roman Graffi4 Sara Sprenkle Ancient Graffi0 Project: h6p://ancientgraffi0.wlu.edu Washington and Lee University h>p://agp.wlu.edu/graffito/agp-edr145008 Graffito found in Herculaneum, House of Stags (IV.21)
My Background Ø Research Focus: Automated Web ApplicaTon TesTng Users Web Applica0on Server User Accesses Test Case Test Test Case Cases Model(s) Test Case User Test Case Sessions Ø Teaching Focus: SoVware Development Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 2
Spiral Design Process Ø From CSCI209: SoVware Development Design Design Increasing cost Evaluate Implement Evaluate Implement Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 3
Ancient GraffiT Project Ø Digital resource of graffit of Herculaneum and Pompeii StarTng in Herculaneum, growing to Pompeii Ø Search and analyze the graffit Ø Engage audiences with various levels of expertse Epigraphists, Scholars, LaTn students, the curious
Search by Map/LocaTon Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 5
Filterable results: Search Results See locaton of graffit in context: Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 6
Filtered Results Working on translatng graffit 7
Browse All Figural GraffiT Drawing Subject: Animals, Boats, EroTc images, Geometric designs, Gladiators, Human figures, Plants Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 8
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View Details of Graffito Links to AGP: Links to EDR Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project Click images to enlarge, h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ Linked from EDR 10
Ancient GraffiT Project Goals Ø Digital resource of graffit of Herculaneum and Pompeii StarTng in Herculaneum, growing to Pompeii Ø Search and analyze the graffit Ø Engage audiences with various levels of expertse Epigraphists, Scholars, LaTn students, the curious h>ps://github.com/ancientgraffitproject Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 11
OpportuniTes and Challenges Ø In Situ Context -- spatal AddiTonal measurements Ø Messages of common people social media Ø Drawings! Ø Medium: fragile Losing at rapid rate Hard to find Photographing Report property but not more specific Ø InterpretaTon of graffit Meanings Esp drawings Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 12
Data CollecTon Ø In Herculaneum Ø LocaTng graffit Ø Different houses available than in 2016 Ø Clearer, higher resoluton photos Ø Measurements Height from ground Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 13
AGP in Context Collect on-site in Herculaneum GraffiT GraffiT GraffiT Graffito DigiTze and process Customized tools for ancient graffit EDR Epigraphic Database Roma Ancient GraffiT Project EAGLE The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and LaTn Epigraphy Epidoc Just Herculaneum and Pompeii Pleiades Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 14
Towards Linked Open Data Ø First steps JSON API Ø All graffit: h>p://agp.wlu.edu/all/json This URL will likely change JSON à Epidoc by Pietro Liuzzo Ø Next steps Epidoc API JSON API all graffit by a search Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 15
(Close-to) Stable URIs Ø Individual graffito h>p://agp.wlu.edu/graffito/agp-edr124967 Ø GraffiT by locaton h>p://agp.wlu.edu/region/city/insula/property/id Ø h>p://agp.wlu.edu/region/herculaneum Ø h>p://agp.wlu.edu/region/herculaneum/vi.1 Ø h>p://agp.wlu.edu/region/pompeii/i.8/17 Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 16
In Progress: Greatest Hits Ø Lower barrier to explore graffit Ø Curated graffit Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 17
In Progress: Greatest Hits Ø For use in LaTn classes Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 18
In Progress Ø Greatest hits SelecTng graffit Finalizing interface Ø GraffiT translatons Ø More graffit! All of Herculaneum Ø Handling locatons not in propertes (e.g., water tower) Ø Admin Web interface Easier data manipulaton Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 19
Next Steps Ø Drawings controlled vocabulary Tagging graffit Enable browsing, searching Ø Epidocified content/editon of graffit Indexing Ø Pleiades locatons finer granularity Ø More filters Alphabet Ø Analyzing graffit, metadata! Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 20
Teacher/Scholar Model Ø Ancient GraffiT Project integrated into several courses Ø CSCI335: SoVware Engineering via Web ApplicaTons Ø LATN350: Epigraphy Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 21
Acknowledgements Ø Leadership Team Rebecca Benefiel Holly Sypniewski Jackie DiBiasie Sammons Mackenzie Brooks Ø ApplicaTon Development Jamie White 17 Paul Jang 15 And more undergraduates Ø EAGLE/EDR Pietro Liuzzo Silvia Orlandi Silvia EvangelisT Ø CollecTon Teams h>p:// ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ about-us/herculaneumteam/ Big Ancient Mediterranean 2016 Ancient GraffiT Project h>p://ancientgraffit.wlu.edu/ 22