CoolStateLA Enterprise System

1. CoolStateLA Enterprise System CONVERGED NEWSROOM News Director: Prof. Jon Beaupre CS Adviser: Prof. Russ Abbott

2. CoolStateLA Enterprise System AGENDA • Ren Almirol: Project Overview • Farrukh Shakil: Asset Manager (Fedora based) • Manoj Katwal: STORI (Fedora based) • Sepideh Nazari: Workflow Manager • Mark Luntzel: Feed Filter • Ren Almirol: Joomla CMS • Prof. Beaupre: Future work • Q & A

3. Project Overview COOLSTATELA CONVERGED NEWSROOM • University Times Newspaper • CoolStateLA.com News Website • CoolStateLA News Web Radio • CoolStateLA News Webcast

4. Project Overview COOLSTATELA USERS • Reporter/Producer (RP) • Editor (E) • Assignment Editor (AE) • Senior Editor (SE) • Programmer/News Assistant (PNA) • Advertising Assistant (AA) • News Director (ND)

5. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Enter Media • Request Edit of Media • Edit Media • Create/Update News Budget • Create/Update Run List • Publish Media • Program Media

6. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Create Feeds • Propose Story • Confirm Story Proposal • Receive Story Proposal Confirmation • Assign Story • Confirm Assigned Story • Receive Assignment Confirmation

7. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Create/Update Feeds • Description: A RP or E uses keywords to search feeds for story leads. • Pre-conditions: None. • Post-conditions: System has record of selected feeds for a particular user.

8. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Propose Story • Description: A producer or editor proposes a story. • Pre-conditions: None. • Post-conditions: A record of the proposed story is stored.

9. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Confirm Story Proposal • Description: An editor (E, AE, or SE) confirms a story proposal. • Pre-conditions: System has record of proposed story. • Post-conditions: System has confirmatin record of story proposal.

10. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Receive Story Proposal Confirmation • Description: A RP receives confirmation of a story proposal from an editor. • Pre-conditions: System has confirmation record of story proposal. • Post-conditions: System has receipt of

11. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Assign Story • Description: An editor assigns a story to a RP. • Pre-conditions: System record of proposed story. • Post-conditions: System has record of story assignment.

12. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Confirm Assigned Story • Description: A RP confirms an editor’s assigned story. • Pre-conditions: System has record of story assignment. • Post-conditions: System has record of story assignment confirmation by RP.

13. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Receive Assignment Confirmation • Description: The AE receives assignment confirmation from the RP. • Pre-conditions: System has record of story assignment confirmation by RP. • Post-conditions: System has record of receipt of story assignment confirmation by RP.

14. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Enter Media • Description: A RP enters media into the system. • Pre-conditions: System has record of story assignment. • Post-conditions: System has record of media.

15. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Request Edit of Media • Description: The assigned editor requests the RP to edit his story media. • Pre-conditions: System record of media. • Post-conditions: System has record of requested edit of media.

16. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Edit Media • Description: The RP edits his story media. • Pre-conditions: System has record of requested edit of media. • Post-conditions: System has record of edited media.

17. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Create/Update News Budget • Description: From list of proposed stories, select stories to be written or deactivated. • Pre-conditions: System has record of proposed stories. • Post-conditions: System has record of stories to be written or deactivated.

18. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Create/Update Run List • Description: From list of stories to be written, view story status, and select publication destination and date. • Pre-conditions: System has record of active stories. • Post-conditions: System has record of story destinations and dates.

19. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Publish Media • Description: The editor approves the story to “Publish” status. • Pre-conditions: System has record of entered or edited media. • Post-conditions: System has record of published media.

20. Project Overview COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES • Program Media • Description: The PNA and SE work together to program the published story to the appropriate destination (e.g. print, website). • Pre-conditions: System has record of published stories for a particular destination. • Post-conditions: System has record of programmed stories for a particular destination and location.

21. Project Overview COOLSTATELA ARCHITETURAL COMPONENTS • Asset Manager – Fedora based • Workflow Manager • Workforce Manager – Settle • Newspaper Generator – Adobe InDesign • News Website Generator – Joomla • News Stream Manager and Filter

22. Asset Manager (Fedora based) • Introduction to Fedora • Similar to database • Stores data and associated metadata • Uses query language iTQL similar to SQL to retrieve data • Advantage to database • Can retrieve and transform data for delivery to different forms of publication (e.g. newspaper, website, cell phone, etc.) using XSL and XSLT

23. STORI (Fedora based) • Functionality • Current • Inserts, updates, and retrieves story metadata only • Planned • Ingest and update media and associated metadata

24. Workflow Manager • Who are the users? • How will it be used? • How do these uses map from the Use Cases? • How does the Workflow Manager map from STORI?

25. Feed Filter

26. Joomla

27. Future Work • Integration of architectural components. • Asset Manager • Workflow Manager • STORI – Fedora based • Reporter Alert System • CoolStateLA Radio • CoolStateLA Newscast