The result of nearly 30-years of work, the Archaeological Mapping Lab of the UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology created a map of Augustan-era Rome to help better understand the composition, organization and planning of the ancient urban city. The Digital Augustan Rome website brings this map and accompanying text to the public utilizing contemporary mapping and web technologies.
Digital Augustan Rome, Phase I
April 2009
University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Archaeological Mapping Lab
credits
- Design
- Kieran Lynn
- Developer
- Kieran Lynn
- Map Design
- Mark Davison
- Project Team
- Jim Anderson, Mark Davison, Kieran Lynn, David Gilman Romano, Nick Stapp
contribution
Since 2008 I have been working with the Archeological Mapping Laboratory at the University Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology to bring their research online. For Digital Augustan Rome I was tasked with how to bring their 2001 publication Mapping Augustan Rome online through a multi-phase design and development process culminating in a website consisting of a fully interactive map of Augustan era Rome and all of the supporting interpretive text from the original publication.
Throughout this process I brought together a number of open source software packages to weave together the experience for Digital Augustan Rome. The map was written in Flash Actionscript 3 utilizing the ModestMaps Mapping Framework. The front and backends of the site were written in PHP supported by CakePHP and my internal content development system Ligature–a collection of custom software written to support interactive media projects. In addition to all of the development for this site I also constructed the user experience and the full visual design for the site.
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