PEMM·PrincetonUniversity

Princeton's digital archive of Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian miracles of Mary.

Role: Backend engineer · Schema designer
Team: N/A
Client: Princeton University
Domain: Academic · Digital Humanities

Overview

Princeton's digital humanities platform cataloguing Ethiopian, Eritrean & Egyptian miracles of Mary.

Challenge

Digital humanities research needs a schema rich enough for manuscripts, stories, people, places, and citations, but simple enough for scholars to edit without a developer every time.

Approach

Designed the relational schema and database structure in Directus for manuscripts, miracles, people, and places with bidirectional linking. Researchers edit and publish entries directly; the API feeds the public research frontend.