List of desirables

  • EDH
    • Clickable link to Pleiades / Barrington Atlas for the find spot (ancient name)
    • Improving EAGLE in terms of interoperability (long-term)
    • Searching for inscriptions from 40 km around Cologne. Proximity search. (possibly using tools listed at wiki:DB2Spatial)
    • List of findspots for all inscriptions mentioning a given specific person, places, status (senators) as list or on the map (i.e., geographic visualization of arbitrary search result subsets)
      • Weight by, e.g., some measure of significance or aggregation
    • Mapping Imperial Period provinces with Late Antique provinces (potential for subsequent application)
    • Management, interlinking and description of images
    • How does EDH acquire and manage coordinates to support mapping etc.
    • Import/export EpiDoc? format XML
  • Pleiades
    • Trying to create better interoperability between the various distinct databases
      • lead Pleiades users to geographically relevant content in EDH
    • Provinces and other administrative areas. Extending this ability
    • Means to programmatically discover content in EDH and its relationship to geography
      • Would like to see EDH provide Atom feeds with links to Pleiades places
      • Realistic representation of how many inscriptions included in EDH (complete set or only partial).