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Work in Progress

“Stage 1 involves the development of a Pilot ticTOCs structure and prototype service” (from ticTOCs Project proposal)

Technical Scope

Project Stages 1 & 2
Initial setup
First & Second development cycles
Prototype development

 

Source & Related documents

-       Functional Requirements for ticTOCs Prototype – STAGE 1 Draft Ver 0.2 11/06/07LR
ticTOCs Project plan Ver 1.1 Aug-07 JH

Technical Contact

Santy Chumbe, ICBL
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Phone 0131 451 3762
Email santiago@icbl.hw.ac.uk.

Staff Involved

Santy Chumbe (ICBL)
Lisa Rogers (ICBL)
Roddy MacLeod (HWU Library)
Geoffrey (CrossRef)
Joe Hilton (Liverpool)
Helle (proQuest)
Paul (Emerald)

Version

Ver 0.60 – Updated 16-Jan-08 by Santy
Ver 0.61 – Updated 26-Feb-08 by Santy

Deliverable Date

Prototype First Release: 17-March-2008

 

1. Key Technical Deliverables

 

 

1. TOCosphere

Tasks

Who

Status

WP

5.  Development of AJAX-enabled interface for browsing, searching and selecting tocs from the TOC Directory

Santy  

ongoing

1.2

6.  Development of an AJAX-enabled facility for using (close-opening, drag-dropping, filtering, combining, etc.) TOC content

Joe   ! !

pending

1.2

7.  Development of a facility for exporting TOCs (OPML, RefWorks, etc.)

Santy - Joe - Helle

ongoing

1.2

8. Development of one-click chicklet system to allow subscription to individual feeds from external web sites

Joe – Paul ! !

pending

1.4

9. Development of mechanism for adding feeds subscribed via the chickelts to MyTOCs

Santy – Paul – Joe   ! !

pending

1.4

 

2. TOCs Directory

Tasks Ids

Who

Status

WP

10.  “TOCs Directory” DB Setup

Santy

done

1.3.

11.  “Feeds Targets” DB Setup

Santy - Geoffrey

done

1.3

12. Implementation of a simple back-end software (I/O parser) with DB feeds, to support TOCosphere development

Santy – LR

done

1.2

13. Lucene Search Engine setup

Santy

done

1.1

14. Subject Classification DB setup

Joe - Terry – Santy   ! !

pending

1.2

15. Users’ Preferences DB setup

Santy - LR

done

1.2

16. Development of a software mechanism for managing sessions (cookies based) and web user preferences tracking

Santy

done

1.2

17. Development of software and DB for collecting (retrieving) and storing RSS fees (Feeds Collector)

Santy

done

1.2

18. Development of the ticTOCS Engine core software back-end application

Santy

done

1.2

 

 

3. ticTOCs Prototype 1.0

Tasks Ids

Who

Status

WP

19. Development of the ticTOCs Search API

Santy

done

1.2

20. Development of the ticTOCs Browse API

Santy

done

1.2

21. Development of the myTOCs API (cookies based)

Santy

done

1.2

22. Writing, testing and implementation of CSS and XSLT styles sheets

LR - Santy - Joe

done

1.2

23. Development of the I/O parser

Santy

done

1.2

24. Installation and integration of front-end (TOCosphere) and back-end (TOCs Directory) components of the prototype

Santy – LR

done

1.2

25. Final tests and internal release of ticTOCs Prototype

Santy

done

1.7

 

4. ticTOCs Admin Interface 1.0

Tasks Ids

Who

Status

WP

26. Development of a mechanism for RSS metadata filtering (e.g. RSS 1, RSS 2, PRISM, etc.)

Santy - LR

ongoing

1 - 4

27. Development of a mechanism for RSS metadata normalization

Santy - LR

ongoing

1 - 4

28. Development of mechanism for RSS metadata enhancement

Santy - LR   ! !

pending

1 - 4

29. Development of a mechanism for managing targets (publishers), journals and TOCs

Santy - LR   ! !

starting

1 - 4

30. Development of a mechanism for managing and analysing user data

Santy - LR

ongoing

1 - 4

 

5. ticTOCs Prototype 2.0

Tasks

Who

Status

WP

31. Authentication

Santy started

32. Metadata Quality Second Round

Santy - LR pending

33. Back-End Development Second Round

Santy pending

34. Front-End Development Second Round

Joe - LR pending

Last Updated: 08 March 2008.