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RSS News Feed Generator

RSS News Feed Generator. Team Even Steven Phil Light, Carol Coon, Madura Mahenhthiran, Becky Vanderhoff, Chris Mamorella, Lars Avery. The Problem. Many RIT departments lack the skills and/or resources to generate RSS-compatible news feeds for use in the myRIT web portal.

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RSS News Feed Generator

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  1. RSS News Feed Generator Team Even Steven Phil Light, Carol Coon, Madura Mahenhthiran, Becky Vanderhoff, Chris Mamorella, Lars Avery

  2. The 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Modules • Article Writer • RSS Generator • Reviewer • Uploader

  6. Article Writer • Spell-checker • Templates • Input • Downloadable Client? • HTML Generator

  7. RSS Generator • Generates RSS document corresponding to news information entered. • Processes and converts user input “behind the scenes”

  8. Reviewer • To post or not to post? • Accept/reject • Comment

  9. Uploader • Uploads documents for article writer. • RSS document posted to web for retrieval by Prometheus.

  10. Data Flow

  11. How we will do it? • Information Gathering • Questionnaires • Interviews • Stakeholders • Departments • Clubs and Organizations • Disabled – Accessibility

  12. 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

  13. Reporting • Web Page • Minutes • Release Schedule • Documents/Presentations • Weekly Status/Info Sharing Meetings

  14. Schedule - 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

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