Multimedia Database

Abstract

We studied the entire process for the creation of a website to interact with a multimedia database. Our team intended to create a centralized system so both undergraduate and graduate Computer Science students at Virginia Tech could upload their personal projects for all instructors who are affiliated with the university to view. The overall goal of this project was to create a system to allow a user a way to view other user's profiles in order to facilitate the ability to find research candidates and opportunities. Our team hopes that this proof-of-concept project can have a greater impact in the future by being expanded to include all university students. However, since our goal was to create a prototype, we have limited the number of students who have access to the system to Computer Science students. In order to create a successful prototype for our client, we had to first, through careful discussion, create the requirements for both the database and website. Next, came the design phase which outlines the prototype’s technologies and overall structure. In the implementation and prototype sections of the report, we detail aspects of the prototype’s capabilities. Finally, in the testing section, our team discusses metrics deployed to determine the successfulness of the prototype. Furthermore, we discuss the future plans for the project once we have graduated and the valuable lessons our team learned from this experience. The current status of the project is that our team has fully built the back end database. In addition, the webpages for the website have also all been created. The main remaining task is that the website is only partially integrated with the database and needs to be fully integrated.