initial topic plan

The following is a basic outline of initials ideas about the direction of the project. They range from requirements, to technical and bussiness aspects that wont come up for a while.

High Level ideas:

• The tracking of a given news event over time.
• Identifying the topic.
• Looking at the event over different TV stations.
• Providing an interface for clients to be able to retrieve this information.

Some basic issues that will come up

• Which stories to track
• How to get the events (automated or use human interaction)
• Distinguishing between new events and old events (i.e. same topic but different event, best example would be Iraq is it a new story on it or a continued story)
• Where will clients view this data and how will they access it.
• Where in the production cycle will this fit.

Other issues:

• Technologies to be used i.e. Language, tools to be used [Java, J2EE]
• Verson control (sub version)
• Database to use. [PostgreSql, MSQL]
• Mix of technical and theoretical components [How much of the thess should be about the theory that is being used, and how much should be about building the working system itself to be used by