CS4624 Projects Discovery Portal

Perryman, Shayne; Kanaan, Adam; Fuentes, Mark; Gonzalez, Maddie; Moshin, Faizan

CS4624 Projects Discovery Portal

dc.contributor.author	Perryman, Shayne	en
dc.contributor.author	Kanaan, Adam	en
dc.contributor.author	Fuentes, Mark	en
dc.contributor.author	Gonzalez, Maddie	en
dc.contributor.author	Moshin, Faizan	en
dc.date.accessioned	2024-09-03T18:25:34Z	en
dc.date.available	2024-09-03T18:25:34Z	en
dc.date.issued	2024-05-01	en
dc.description	This project was done in fulfilling a requirement for the CS 4624 Capstone Course. The Team is tasked with creating a web application that displays information and files of all previous projects that were originally uploaded to the VTechWorks website under the tag Multimedia, Hypertext & Information Access. This project is to be usable on all OS types and support user authentication and differing permission levels and accesses based on said authentication. Furthermore the web application should allow for users to search the database for projects based on specified search criteria. It will also allow users of higher permissions to create and upload projects to the database based on a form that requests information and files regarding the project.	en
dc.description.abstract	CS4624 is one of many capstone courses a student within the CS curriculum is able to take. The multimedia and hypertext course digs into the diverse range of multimedia content such as images, audio, video, and any information retrieval and access relating to it. With this comes the capstone project which is a semester long project given to us students to allow a display of mastery within our discipline. It has been a pleasure to have Dr. Farag and Vedant Shah guide and assist us with the project. An insight into real-world applications as well as a diverse approach to different problems has allowed us to grow as both people and developers. The current discovery portal for CS4624 student projects serves as a platform for students working within the course to submit and hold their projects. Details included within the pages on the discovery portal consist of abstract, date, author, presentation, final report, source code, and collections. Additionally, the discovery portal contains filtering features to allow users to specifically search for any project dependent on; recent, issue date, author, title, subject, content type, and department. This allows teachers to easily access desired projects as well as a safe holding for semester long projects that students worked hard on. With this comes the purpose of the project. After reviewing the functionality and appearance of the discovery portal, there were many things that needed to be improved on. The first very noticeable issue was that the search features did not either function properly or at all. For starters, the ‘By Issue Date’ filter would not allow filtering with either month or year. It was required that both were specified along with the open search requiring an exact formatting of date (xx-xx-xxxx). The ‘By Author’ filter expected that the full name was typed out, including the comma separating the first and last name. All open search features expected a prompt that would produce an exact match. It also came to our attention that some features produced over a thousand categories for only 269 projects. This should never be the case as the purpose of filtering is to narrow the search for projects. After analyzing the discovery portal, our main focus became improving upon the search and filtering features. This was something that would require us to completely recreate the discovery portal due to existing source code being unavailable. With this, we first needed to create a front-end and back-end that would relay any information requests to have a web page display. To replicate the discovery portal further, we also implemented an authentication aspect. Accounts would be divided into ‘admin’, ‘professor’, and ‘user’, each having distinct permissions on what they are able to insert, delete, and modify. Following this was the development of our database to store all of the projects’ files as well as a schema that the search and filtering features would utilize. Finally, we implemented a search api for the back-end to access, a completed schema for each project, and created a function search and filter function. Upon completion, we hope to provide future CS4624 students and staff with a more convenient tool to guide them in their journey of completing their capstone projects.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10919/121064	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.subject	Discovery Portal	en
dc.subject	CS4624	en
dc.subject	Multimedia	en
dc.subject	Hypertext	en
dc.subject	Capstone	en
dc.subject	Discovery Page	en
dc.subject	Webpage	en
dc.subject	Filter	en
dc.subject	Functionality	en
dc.title	CS4624 Projects Discovery Portal	en
dc.type	Report	en