Edicole Sacre di Roma: Tracking Human Interaction With Roman Street Shrines

Edicole Sacre di Roma: Tracking Human Interaction With Roman Street Shrines

Noah Roselli - Undergraduate Researcher (and presenter)
Dr. Louis Hamilton - Principal Investigator

(Other project team members not presenting but have contributed to the research and will be recognized during the presentation:
Xavier Reyes - Undergraduate Researcher
Meredith Westrich - Undergraduate Researcher)

This project has mapped out, through space and time, how human interaction with street shrines shapes the religious influence of the shrine, the region, and Rome entirely. To do this, we have created a taxonomy of each of the 615 Roman shrines; this stores all of its characteristics. We query our database, then, to find statistically significant information about the shrines as a whole, such as whether touristic infrastructure inhibits devotion at shrines. We are transitioning our database into an application that will allow for users to directly query the database and upload their own images of shrines.

Noah Roselli is a third year ADHC student studying Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics with a minor in Electronic Creative Writing. He has been part of Dr. Hamilton's Rome Research Group for approximately two years, and plans to continue working with Dr. Hamilton until graduation.

Ontology, Digital database, Shrines, Rome, Statistics