| Project title: | Human Evolution in Time and Space |
| Organization/Company: | Human Origins Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution |
| Supervisor: | Dr. Matthew Tocheri, Data Management Specialist, Human Origins Program |
| Project description: |
This project will continue the development of one of last years (2010) bachelor thesis, "Disseminating Information about Human Evolution".
Our work will consist of adding new functionality, as well as improving some of the existing functionality.
One of our goals is improving the communication between the map and timeline which, at this point, is nonexistent. We would also like to add some new tools to improve communication between the web application and its users. |
| What makes this project useful/interesting? | What makes this project interesting is that we have the opportunity to use our knowledge of web development, as well as acquire new knowledge, both in web development, optimization, and export of data (documents). In addition to this, we see this as an interesting experiment on working with people across continents. |
| Any requirements for students’ prior knowledge: | The students should have reasonable knowledge, or the ability to gain knowledge in these languages and scripts: SQL, Javascript (JQuery), XHTML, CSS, AJAX, data export features as well as algorithm analysis. |
| Any requirements for special equipment: | A dedicated server for testing and development. |
| Other: |
This project is for the students: Martin Folkeseth, |