CoolStateLA Enterprise System

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CoolStateLA Enterprise System

• CONVERGED NEWSROOM
• News Director Prof. Jon Beaupre
• CS Adviser Prof. Russ Abbott

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CoolStateLA Enterprise System

• AGENDA
• Ren Almirol Project Overview
• Farrukh Shakil Asset Manager (Fedora based)
• Manoj Katwal STORI (Fedora based)
• Sepideh Nazari Workflow Manager
• Mark Luntzel Feed Filter
• Ren Almirol Joomla CMS
• Prof. Beaupre Future work
• Q A

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA CONVERGED NEWSROOM
• University Times Newspaper
• CoolStateLA.com News Website
• CoolStateLA News Web Radio
• CoolStateLA News Webcast

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA USERS
• Reporter/Producer (RP)
• Editor (E)
• Assignment Editor (AE)
• Senior Editor (SE)
• Programmer/News Assistant (PNA)
• Advertising Assistant (AA)
• News Director (ND)

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Enter Media
• Request Edit of Media
• Edit Media
• Create/Update News Budget
• Create/Update Run List
• Publish Media
• Program Media

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Create Feeds
• Propose Story
• Confirm Story Proposal
• Receive Story Proposal Confirmation
• Assign Story
• Confirm Assigned Story
• Receive Assignment Confirmation

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Create/Update Feeds
• Description A RP or E uses keywords to search
  feeds for story leads.
• Pre-conditions None.
• Post-conditions System has record of selected
  feeds for a particular user.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Propose Story
• Description A producer or editor proposes a
  story.
• Pre-conditions None.
• Post-conditions A record of the proposed story
  is stored.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Confirm Story Proposal
• Description An editor (E, AE, or SE) confirms a
  story proposal.
• Pre-conditions System has record of proposed
  story.
• Post-conditions System has confirmatin record of
  story proposal.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Receive Story Proposal Confirmation
• Description A RP receives confirmation of a
  story proposal from an editor.
• Pre-conditions System has confirmation record
  of story proposal.
• Post-conditions System has receipt of

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Assign Story
• Description An editor assigns a story to a RP.
• Pre-conditions System record of proposed story.
• Post-conditions System has record of story
  assignment.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Confirm Assigned Story
• Description A RP confirms an editors assigned
  story.
• Pre-conditions System has record of story
  assignment.
• Post-conditions System has record of story
  assignment confirmation by RP.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Receive Assignment Confirmation
• Description The AE receives assignment
  confirmation from the RP.
• Pre-conditions System has record of story
  assignment confirmation by RP.
• Post-conditions System has record of receipt of
  story assignment confirmation by RP.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Enter Media
• Description A RP enters media into the system.
• Pre-conditions System has record of story
  assignment.
• Post-conditions System has record of media.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Request Edit of Media
• Description The assigned editor requests the RP
  to edit his story media.
• Pre-conditions System record of media.
• Post-conditions System has record of requested
  edit of media.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Edit Media
• Description The RP edits his story media.
• Pre-conditions System has record of requested
  edit of media.
• Post-conditions System has record of edited
  media.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Create/Update News Budget
• Description From list of proposed stories,
  select stories to be written or deactivated.
• Pre-conditions System has record of proposed
  stories.
• Post-conditions System has record of stories to
  be written or deactivated.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Create/Update Run List
• Description From list of stories to be written,
  view story status, and select publication
  destination and date.
• Pre-conditions System has record of active
  stories.
• Post-conditions System has record of story
  destinations and dates.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Publish Media
• Description The editor approves the story to
  Publish status.
• Pre-conditions System has record of entered or
  edited media.
• Post-conditions System has record of published
  media.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA TYPICAL USE CASES
• Program Media
• Description The PNA and SE work together to
  program the published story to the appropriate
  destination (e.g. print, website).
• Pre-conditions System has record of published
  stories for a particular destination.
• Post-conditions System has record of programmed
  stories for a particular destination and location.

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Project Overview

• COOLSTATELA ARCHITETURAL COMPONENTS
• Asset Manager Fedora based
• Workflow Manager
• Workforce Manager Settle
• Newspaper Generator Adobe InDesign
• News Website Generator Joomla
• News Stream Manager and Filter

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Asset Manager (Fedora based)

• Introduction to Fedora
• Similar to database
• Stores data and associated metadata
• Uses query language iTQL similar to SQL to
  retrieve data
• Advantage to database
• Can retrieve and transform data for delivery to
  different forms of publication (e.g. newspaper,
  website, cell phone, etc.) using XSL and XSLT

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STORI (Fedora based)

• Functionality
• Current
• Inserts, updates, and retrieves story metadata
  only
• Planned
• Ingest and update media and associated metadata

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Workflow Manager

• Who are the users?
• How will it be used?
• How do these uses map from the Use Cases?
• How does the Workflow Manager map from STORI?

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Feed Filter
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Joomla
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Future Work

• Integration of architectural components.
• Asset Manager
• Workflow Manager
• STORI Fedora based
• Reporter Alert System
• CoolStateLA Radio
• CoolStateLA Newscast