Progress Since CA1
Attempts to develop a user interface using LWUIT and SVG took too long to get off the ground, so I decided to switch to Mobile Processing upon advice from my colleague in Sri Lanka, Asanka. Given its simpler language and more focused interface, I was able to get down to work developing the menu screen, and have more confidence in developing a usable interface quickly. This permits more work to be done on the core aspects of the application, such as the intelligent search engine, which I had previously been kept from.
What's to be done
- The XML formats developed for information interchange between the disparate parts of the app will be tested and refined once the server is up and running.
- Investigation and implementation of semantic web framework (open source package Jena was chosen.)
- Jena is an Java API for RDF - it can be used to generate triples based on databases
- MySQL backend can be used to store location information, and RDF graphs generated from them on demand
- Uncertainty about the time it takes for such graphs to be generated
- How to generate the graphs based on user preferences?
- Reading on the applications and characteristics of dynamic databases and semantic web frameworks, RDF.
- Considering a social-networking aspect: to allow users to find other users or fellow travellers nearby who may be more familiar with the area.
- Blogwall concepts such as POSTagger and emotional weight evaluation to be incorporated into project
- Chaos engine implementation to be studied and used for recommendation engine
- Refined location determination using assisted GPS and OpenCellID (lower priority)
- Recognition of places via MMS photo upload (lower priority)
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