RSS News Feed GeneratorRSS News Feed Generator

Team Even StevenPhil Light, Carol Coon, Madura Mahenhthiran,

Becky Vanderhoff, Chris Mamorella, Lars Avery

The ProblemThe Problem Many RIT departments lack the skills and/or resources to

generate RSS-compatible news feeds for use in the myRIT web portal.

News portlet content must be owned and managed by the departments; data source cannot reside in a central location.

Departments have varying degrees of technical aptitude; some may only have marginal web/HTML experience.

Departments may have different tastes and usability preferences; possible challenge finding a solution that provides unilateral appeal.

Solution: What to build?Solution: What to build? Web-based tool which provides:

RDF Site Summary (RSS) Feed Generator News Article Generator

Objectives Web-bases Process Automation Accessibility & Usability Extensibility – sliding scale solution

What to build? (cont.)What to build? (cont.) Web-based tool let users enter and customize news item

information. Item templates promote ease-of-use; HTML or special

formatting skill not required. When information is set, tool generates corresponding

RSS and HTML documents; posted to web. Prometheus will retrieve news feeds from RSS document

via URL for display in the myRIT portal; knows when feed is updated.

ModulesModules Article Writer RSS Generator Reviewer Uploader

Article WriterArticle Writer Spell-checker Templates Input Downloadable Client? HTML Generator

RSS GeneratorRSS Generator Generates RSS document corresponding to

news information entered. Processes and converts user input “behind

the scenes”

ReviewerReviewer To post or not to post? Accept/reject Comment

UploaderUploader Uploads documents for article writer. RSS document posted to web for retrieval

by Prometheus.

Data FlowData Flow

Web-based tool

Departmentnews source

News Article Generator

RSS Feed Generator

Prometheus

RSS documentHTML document

How we will do it?How we will do it? Information Gathering

Questionnaires Interviews

Stakeholders Departments Clubs and Organizations Disabled – Accessibility

How (Cont.)How (Cont.) Development Tools

Language – JSP Eclipse Revision Control – CVS Bug Tracking – Bugzilla Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio

Testing Unit Testing Regression Prototyping Beta Testing

Incremental Releases

ReportingReporting Web Page

Minutes Release Schedule Documents/Presentations

Weekly Status/Info Sharing Meetings

Schedule - DeliverablesSchedule - Deliverables Requirements document week 4-5 Design document week 5-6 Three four-week test and implementation phases

First release: end of this quarter (week 10) Second release: week 4 of spring quarter Final release: week 8 of spring quarter

Training and rollout: weeks 9&10 of spring quarter