Our Summer Research

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Our Summer Research

• Brought to you by
• Dong-Hui and Debby

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Background

• About us
• Distributed Mentor Project
• Professor Janice Cuny
• Computing Research Association

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Overview

• Motivation
• Project Goals
• Lucene and Digester
• Our System
• Why Our Search is Special
• Conclusion
• Future Work

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Motivation

• VRV-ET
• Virtual Research Vessel
• Educational Tool
• http//www.cs.uoregon.edu/jrogers/oman/
• Suggested improvements for VRV-ET
• Data protection
• User friendly interfaces
• Efficient data retrieval

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Project Goals

• Image data retrieval system
• Goals
• Easy to use interface
• Efficient retrieval of data
• Extendable

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Lucene and Digester

• Open source projects from Apache
• Digester
• Parse XML
• Lucene
• Indexes
• Searches

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Our System

• Full text searchable index
• Picture meta data
• XML files
• Keyword based search
• Advanced search capacity
• File retrieval

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Why Our Search is Special

• Why not Google?
• Tailored to VRV-ET
• Extendable functionality
• Used in conjunction with other tools
• Demo

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Future Work

• Data Access Object
• Image data input interface
• Use to create presentations

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Conclusion

• How we improved VRV-ET
• What our system does
• Ways to improve it