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Material Type: Project; Class: Survey of Energy and Power for a Sustainable Future; Subject: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; University: University of Southern California; Term: Fall 2004;
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OCD_LCO_F04a_T03 ii 09/23/
Date Author Version Changes made
09/22/04 Stephan Pak
Atul Vij Rukmani khajuria Puneet khurania Nantana Tinroongroj Chia-hung Lin
0.1 The draft of the Early OCD Sections
OCD_LCO_F04a_T03 v 09/23/
No table for OCD version 0.1 Error! No table of figures entries found.
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose of the OCD Document
The purpose of the Operational Concept Description (OCD) is to describe to the stakeholders of the “Online Bibliographies on Chinese Religions in Western Languages” System in detail. The functions of the system are included in the operational concept as well as the interactions of the system users.
The design of the system will be completed in the Fall Semester 2004 of CSCI 577a, while the implementation and transition will occur during the next Spring Semester.
The stakeholders include the client, the users, the project manager and the developers. The client is Dr. Gary Seaman, an associate professor in the Anthropology department. The users include Dr. Gary Seaman and scholars that are interested in bibliographies on Chinese religions.
The OCD will provide clear and concise documentation to the stakeholders, especially reference and guidance to all parties, to ensure that the correct system is developed. A clear understanding of how stakeholders will interact with the system and how they interact with each other about the system is a crucial function of the OCD. Specifically, the main goals of the OCD are to enable the operational stakeholders to evolve knowledgeably from their current and inadequate operational concept to the new operational concept, and to enable stakeholders to adapt to the operational concept as new developments arise. Therefore, the operational concept description is in a language common to all the interested parties.
This is the Life Cycle Objectives (LCO) version of the OCD.
1.2 References
ß MBASE guideline Version 2.4.
http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs577a_2004/guidelines/MBASE_Guidelines_v2.4.1.pdf
ß Meeting with the client on 09/17/
ß Group meeting
ß Easy Win-Win Training
ß Organization Information:
http://www.usc.edu/assets/college/faculty/profiles/12.html
ß Project description on class website: http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs577a_2004/projects/description/project3.htm
ß Cs577 past project archives in Fall 2003
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci577/section3/www/team34a/ http://www-scf.usc.edu/%7Ecsci577/www/team9a/
1.3 Shared Vision
TBD
Benefits within the Domain
2.1.2 Results Chain
Figure 1: Results Chain
2.2 Key Stakeholders
I. Developmental a. Sponsors i. Professor Barry Boehm ii. Professor Windsor Brown b. Managers i. Stephan Pak c. Architects i. Nantana Tinroongroj d. Developers i. Atul Vij ii. John Lin iii. Keshou Wu iv. Puneet Khurania v. Rukmani Khajuria e. Testers i. Matthew Benjamin ii. Qi Cao II. Operational a. Clients i. Professor Gary Seaman b. Users i. Professor Gary Seaman ii. Chinese Religion scholars iii. Anthropologists iv. General public c. Administrator, Maintainer, Owner i. Professor Gary Seaman
2.3 System Boundary and Environment
TBD
3. Domain/Organization Description
3.1 Organization Background
Dr. Gary Seaman is an associate Professor of Anthropology. He researches ethnographic film, sociology, hypermedia in ethnography, and ritual. His regional interest is China and Japan. Best known for his research of Chinese ritual, professor Seaman has been currently working on several interactive CD-ROM's which he hopes will illuminate his own efforts in visual anthropology.
Dr. Seaman and Prof. Laurence G. Thompson (USC EALC emeritus) have been creating a continuing series of bibliographies on Chinese Religions in Western Languages (English, French, and German) for approximately 20 years. The last volume (4th^ volume) was published in
The time is fast approaching when he must decide whether to update the bibliography for publication in hardcopy once again for the period 2001-2005. In addition, since it has been over 20 years since the first volume appeared, the early volumes are now only available through used book stores.
As bibliographies grow from time to time, Dr. Seaman would like to have a database system so that he can manage entries (insert, delete and update) in an efficient way. Furthermore, the system should provide an efficient search engine that encourages people to use it.
3.2 Organization Goals
The main objectives of the “ Online Bibliographies on Chinese Religions in Western Languages” project are to:
ß Add value to the existing collection of bibliographies by providing users with robust search functionalities.
ß Operationally, we want to facilitate the duties of the administrator by providing him/her with database maintenance functionalities.
By accomplishing these goals we hope to make the bibliographies more accessible than its current format (which is paper based, hard to obtain, and constrained to a linear format); and hopefully present the information in a more user oriented way.
Organization Goal : OG-1 : To provide a user friendly web interface, which will present the bibliographical information akin to the paper format (i.e. index, table of contents, etc. to facilitating passive browsing), as well as provide robust search functionalities that will actively assist a more focused user.
Measurable : To obtain this goal, we will be migrating all the data from Dr. Seaman’s hypercard application to a relational database. From this database we will be dynamically generating hyperlinked tables of contents which the user can navigate. Furthermore, the user will be provided with search functionalities to quickly find groups of bibliographical entries.
Relevant : The web interface is one of the two immediate assets one can gain by migrating to an online electronic format. Through this new web interface he hope to provide a more malleable and user oriented presentation of the data, than how it is currently presented in its paper form.
Organization Goal : OG-2 : Facilitate the maintainability of the bibliography by moving from a paper based/publishing process, to an online collaborative process between individual authors and the bibliography editor/administrator. We will enable individual authors to submit bibliographical data themselves, thereby requiring the administrator/editor to only verify and approve the submissions. The goal is to distribute the burden of maintenance across a group of users.
Measurable : We will be building an online administrative process/ functionality to maintain the bibliographical database.
Relevant : This is the second most important goal of this project; as it will ease Dr. Seaman’s workload considerably. The ability to maintain the database incrementally will relieve him from the lengthy publishing process – and it will also provide his readers/users the most up to date information.
3.3 Current Organization Environment
TBD
3.3.1 Structure
TBD
3.3.2 Artifacts
TBD
3.3.3 Processes
TBD
3.3.4 Rules
3.3.5 Shortcomings
TBD
4. Proposed System
The concepts and effects of the proposed system “ Online Bibliographies on Chinese Religions in Western Languages ” is analyzed in this section. The proposed system describes what the system is about and how well should it perform.
4.1 Statement of Purpose
The project of “ Online Bibliographies on Chinese Religions in Western Languages ” aims at fulfilling the organization goals (OCD 3.2).
The proposed system will not only ease the task of searching the database by providing timely and accurate results with Graphic display, but also enables author submission of entries and abstract of content.
Create a search engine which supports searching combination of multilingual indexes of not just English character index but also Chinese, French or German character indexes. Thereby, it provides users with a better and more comfortable means of accessing the database. The search also enables Cross referencing the topic-based table of contents and locating the contents of their interests.
4.2 Project Goals and Constraints
Title Limited Schedule Description Complete inception and elaboration stages in 10 weeks Measurable Satisfying the completion criteria at every milestone during the life-cycle of the project Relevant References major project constraint OCD 2.4 (1) Specific 10 Weeks
Relevant References major project constraint OCD 2.4 (9) Specific The web-based tool will be accessible through the Internet
Title Searching interface should be user friendly Description The system should provide an interface that is easy to learn and use with basic and advance search options. For example, basic option is to search by title, author, or date, while advance option is to search by Chinese characters. Measurable Users will take less time to learn how to use the system. Relevant References major project constraint OCD 2.4 (12) Specific The user will be able to search bibliographies using title, author, and Chinese characters as keywords.
Title Zero dollar budget and fixed number of developers Description Whole team should achieve the project goals with zero- dollar budget. Measurable No budget was set aside for the project (except the client’s time and effort) Relevant Zero dollar budget and fixed number of developers OCD 2.4 (2) Specific In terms of cost, tools are free and only man hours will be required.
4.3 System Capabilities
4.3.1 CAP-01: Insertion of entries and content.
Description Content of the bibliographies can be updated in the database electronically
Priority High Rationale The bibliographies previously were paper-based. Hence, appending the content had to be manually referenced and indexed on a year to year basis. On the contrary, the new web interface design has the ability to add the content to the database whenever it required by an administrator. Used-in Design Process
4.3.2 CAP-02: Search Result generation
Description To provide search results and to display the referenced text in certain order.
Priority High Rationale User will be able to search by certain fields e.g. title, author etc, which was not possible in paper-based version. Used-in Design Process
4.3.3 CAP-03: Maintainability of the bibliography
Description Maintainability of the online bibliography between individual authors and the editor/administrator. This is done by enabling individual authors to submit bibliographical data themselves, thereby requiring the administrator/editor to only verify and approve the submissions. Priority High Rationale This Facilitates the maintainability of the bibliography by moving from a paper based/publishing process, to an online collaborative process between individual authors and the editor/administrator.
Used-in Design Process
4.3.4 CAP-04: Complex and thorough categorization system.
Description The ability to offer more complex and thorough categorization system for the bibliography. Priority Medium Rationale At present due to constraints of the paper format, the numbers of categories by which the bibliographical entries are organized are limited. Without the limitations of a paper format, we can support a more
