Monthly Archives: November 2011

Team meeting with Duncan Brown

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Useful meeting with Duncan Brown from CSD this morning, in which we invited his comments on our draft Project Plan. Some outcomes and suggestions as follows:

  • Idea for dealing with Google Custom Search API’s current quota of 100 free requests per day
  • Consider pre-population of database by using a service running in the background; likely to be quicker than relying on live searching across domains. The search engine will then first query the database before deciding whether to launch a new request to Google CSE
  • Design UI to include a mechanism to allow users to mark  individual results as “no longer available/valid“
  • Design UI to include a mechanism to allow users to mark duplicate/similar resources

Revising the Project Plan

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This week we met with Alastair Dunning, our JISC Programme Manager and have been working on the ENGrich project plan. In particular we have been:

  • revisiting the data flow diagram presented in our original proposal
  • considering how and when to start building a student community to inform the development of the site
  • firming up a bit on terminology
  • thinking in a bit more detail how we might encourage and record user interactions with the displayed results
  • looking at incoming and outgoing IP issues, constraints and assumptions in the Project Plan

We have also set up this WordPress website – thanks to our colleagues in Computing Services for their help.