Update

This past week was vacation week (also known as spring break) for the US students. We held one meeting this week on Friday with the ITC students. We agreed on the design of the website. We also discussed having the Table of Contents included as an image file and not text since it would take longer for the librarian to enter.
We have made much progress in the project and we are now at the midpoint of the semester. Our next phase will be the coding and testing phase which will be for one month.

Update

For this week, we completed the requirements document. We had to change it because there were some clarifications that needed to be made and test cases that needed to be included. The final versin 1.6 is on the wiki. A draft design document has been posted on the wiki as well.

Since the US team is on vacation, we are not having our meeting on Wed. only Friday.


-Lorena

Weekly update

During this past week, I met with the Univ. of Delhi students in regards to the design of the database for this project. They were very anxious to begin working on this project and I am glad that they are excited to be a part of this team.
The requirement version 1.5 is available on the wiki. We are waiting for final validation. Since we are beginning the design phase, I know that there are more changes to come to the requirements. But, this is good. I prefer for all of us to have a common understanding of this project before building it. One thing I noticed is that the requirements documents don't have the same language when referring to the resources in the library. This is something that the ITC students should agree upon so we can consolidate on the US side.

Update

This week we finalized the requirements document (there were some changes to be made to our previous version) and we are waiting for the validation from the ITC students. We sent the RFP doc to the Delhi students and I hope that everything goes well. As for the problems of this week, our main problem has been the meeting times. Since the ITC students have a new class schedule, we had to change our meeting times to Wednesday mornings, which presented a problem for us since either the time was too early or we had class or work to go to. But, we had a compromise and decided to have the meeting from 7-8am on Weds. (US time). It is early, but the ITC students have to do the same thing for us on Saturdays for our meeting at 7 am (PP time). The least thing we could do is return the favor.
Now, we move to our next phase of the project ...design!!! Keep up the good work everyone!

;-)

-Lorena