Welcome!
This is a short homepage for my fourth year project which will document my progress throughout the project. This page will be updated monthly documenting what progress has been made and what stage the project is at. To view preious months please see the links above for each month!
Background to the Project
This project was initally undertaken in 2003/2004 as a final year project by Pierce Gleeson. He designed the tool, as set out in the requirements, to be of help to post graduate students research. The tool has users, as set up by the admin of the site. These users can then, add, remove, edit and view entries to the site. Each entry has an associated BibTex entry also. When a user looks at an entry they feel may be of help to another userm they can set up a flag to that user, recommending the paper to them. When that user logs in next, the flag will appear, along with whatever comment was left.Who's Who?
- Student: Suzanne Corbett 4th CSSE
- Supervisors: Tom Naughton and Andrew Page
Requirments
The summerise, the requirements as decided upon so far are:- A Complete redesign of the Database
- Design and Implement BibTex Parsing to allow for easier entry of papers
- Design and Implement a Dynamic Query Builder
- Design and Implement a Dynamic Graph showing the interconnection between different authors
- Design and Implement a Recommender System
Additional Secondary Requirements
A number of additional secondary requirements have also been decided upon. The system must recognise the difference between upper and lower case. Users, when entering an article, can also upload a pdf version of this article. The system then automatically creates a folder for this article using it's label. However, there is a possibility that a label of SMU2001j and Smu2001j may be entered. These are two entirely different entries, but if case is not taken into account may be put into the one folder.
Possible Problems
One of the main requirements of last years project was that the tool have a life span of at least ten years. Therefore one possible problem may be that technologies are used that may cease to be supported in the next ten years, therefore rendering the tool inoperable. To overcome this possible occurance any additions made by me must be done modularily. This will be particularily important for the graph model.
Plans for next month
The inital requirement has been completed. The ER Diagrams of old and new have been designed, and the new database developed. Most of the code has been changed to access the new database but the addition of entries has not, as this will be changing in the next requirement anyway. The next month should see the next two requirments being fulfilled. Parsing BibTex on entry, and implementing the Dynamic Query builder!!
View the Site!!
Please feel free to have a look at the site. The link below will take you, as a guest, to the project which was designed in 2003/2004 as a final year project by Pierce Gleeson.
Research Literature Organisation Tool
As a guest you have access to look at most of the site, except adding entries and adding conferences!
When the site is updated for next month, it will also contain a link to my site, so you can see all of the changes as they happen! The