Team SHARP

Project Description

The goal of this project is to finish creating a web-based content management system that semiautomates the composition of the SIGSOFT Newsletter (both print and digital format) As stated above, a partial solution exists. The students will be expected to analyze the existing solution to determine if it suitable for extension, or if new technology merits partial or complete replacement of some functionality. The desired capabilities are listed below.

Submission/Status: Develop a form to upload submissions to SEN by potential contributors and allow them to review their status (and notify the editor, automatically send an acknowledgement email, etc.)
Metadata Extraction/Collection: initially request manual entry of metadata (e.g., Title/Author/Affiliation) but eventually automatically extract metadata from submission
Workflow: a mechanism to trigger events associated with the time and status of documents (e.g., send out reminders to column editors if they have not uploaded a submission by a certain date). Initially workflows will be canned, but later may be parameterized.
DL Content Insertion Preparation: create XML records necessary for entering Newsletter content into the ACM DL
Content Processing: generate pdf from various source formats
Newsletter Composition: combine contributions into single newsletter based on specific guidelines and add appropriate headers.
Newsletter Distribution: prepare a release package of all components to send to printer for publication
Newsletter Content Allocation: this potential feature will allow placement of content based on size, priority (e.g., move content order or move content to future issue) The overall goal is to automate as much of the manual processes that are currently associated with the creation of the Newsletter, and to eliminate the submission of contributions as email attachments.

Team Information

Sponsor:

Will Tracz

Advisor:

Robert Kuehl

Team Members:

Samuel Goshen
Dominic Holt
Leo Torbochkin
Daniel Edenhofer
Nicholas Sabocheck

News & Updates
- 05/21/09: This is the final update unless we are specifically asked for artifacts not present on the Team Website.
- 05/21/09: Technical Report and Self-assessment have been added
- 05/21/09: All existing documents have been brought up-to-date.
- 05/21/09: Time Tracking updated for the Final Week. However, some trackers are still at Week 18.
- 05/21/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for the Final Week.
- 05/21/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for the Final Week.
- 05/11/09: Final presentation is now available.
- 05/11/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 20. However, some trackers are still at Week 18.
- 05/11/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 20.
- 05/11/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 20.
- 05/04/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 19. However, some trackers are still at Week 17.
- 05/04/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 19.
- 05/04/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 19.
- 04/26/09: Final poster is now available as a PDF.
- 04/26/09: Acceptance Testing spreadsheet has been updated.
- 04/26/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 18.
- 04/26/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 18.
- 04/26/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 18. However, some trackers are still at Week 17.
- 04/19/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 17.
- 04/19/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 17.
- 04/19/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 17. All trackers are up-to-date.
- 04/13/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 16.
- 04/13/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 16.
- 04/13/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 16. However, some trackers are still at Week 14 or 13.
- 04/05/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 15.
- 04/05/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 15.
- 04/05/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 15. However, some trackers are still at Week 14 or 13.
- 03/29/09: Project Plan, Installation Guide, and all User Guides have been updated.
- 03/29/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 14.
- 03/29/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 14.
- 03/29/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 14. However, some trackers are still at Week 13.
- 03/22/09: Installation Guide is now available.
- 03/22/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 13.
- 03/22/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 13.
- 03/22/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 13. All Trackers are up-to-date.
- 03/15/09: General User Guide has been removed. Three new User Guides have been added, each corresponding to a type of user (except for Columnist, use Submitter Guide for now).
- 03/15/09: Testing Plan and Acceptance Testing spreadsheet have been updated.
- 03/15/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 12.
- 03/15/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 12.
- 03/15/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 12. However, some trackers are still at Week 10 or 9.
- 03/01/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 11. However, some trackers are still at Week 10 or 9.
- 02/27/09: Interim Team Self-Assessment and Release Notes for Phase 1 and in-process Phase 2 are now available.
- 02/23/09: User Guide and Testing Plan now available. Time Tracking updated for Week 10. However, some trackers are still at Week 9.
- 02/21/09: Interim Presentation is available. Slide design changed to make it more readable. Project Plan, Architecture Document, Software Requirements Specification, and Project Schedule now available.
- 02/15/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 9 with all individual trackers up-to-date. Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet is now available in the Project Content section. Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet is now available in the Project Content section.
- 02/13/09: Time Tracking is now up-to-date for all Team Members for Week 8.
- 02/09/09: Slippage Chart Metrics spreadsheet is now available in the Project Content section. Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 8. Time Tracking updated for Week 8. However, some trackers are still at Week 7.
- 02/01/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 7. Time Tracking updated for Week 7. However, some trackers are still at Week 5.
- 01/25/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet has been updated for Week 6. Time Tracking updated for Week 6. However, some trackers are still at Week 5.
- 01/18/09: Lines of Content Metrics spreadsheet is now available in the Project Content section. Time Tracking updated for Week 5 with all individual trackers up-to-date. Table of Contents is now in place.
- 01/11/09: Time Tracking updated for Week 4 with all individual trackers up-to-date.
- 12/20/08: Time Tracking updated for Week 3. However, some trackers are still at Week 2.
- 12/19/08: Content added to incremental section. Any changes to our incremental approach in the project plan will be carried over to here.
- 12/18/08: Section added for incremental approach, will be finished tomorrow. Metrics section added. Time Tracking updated for Week 2. News section added to announce updates.

Team SHARP

Project Description

Team Information

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News & Updates