About GRSI
Origins of GRSI
The images in GRSI were originally projector slides created by John Oleson and other faculty members and students at the Greek and Roman Studies department at the University of Victoria. The images included photographs from archaeological excavations in Greece, Italy, and other locations around the world, as well as maps and diagrams relevant to Greek and Roman studies
The slides were digitized by the University of Victoria and were imported into a FileMaker Pro database.
The FileMaker Pro database was converted into MySQL with a PHP-based frontend by Greg Newton in the late 2000s. Due to software vulnerabilities, this version of the site had to be de-activated in 2025.
A new, Endings-compliant version of the website was created by Illya Nokhrin in 2025
How to Use GRSI
GRSI offers two main ways of navigating its data: the gallery and the search
The gallery view begins by loading all of the images from the dataset and allows the user to use metadata filters to narrow down results to those that might be of interest to them. Please note that the gallery view only shows entries that have images.
The search page makes use of staticSearch. It invites users to search using a combination of free text and/or metadata filters to find entries that are of interest to them.
Downloading metadata
The metadata for all of the slides is available as a single XML file. Be warned that this is a large XML file.
This XML file references data from the following files:
Credits
The favicon for the site is an adapted version of the Pillar column icon by Timur Zima at The Noun Project. The original icon can be found on Wikimedia Commons.
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