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Client
Raj Smith, Academic Consultant and Information Architect, Department of Natural Resources and Cooperative Extension
Email:
raj.smith@cornell.edu
Telephone: 607-257-4578
Project concepts
Raj Smith of the Department of Natural Resources and Cooperative Extension has been the client for several good CS 501 projects. This year he sent a list of possible projects.
- A grant from the National IPM Special Projects Program provides an
exciting opportunity to use asp.net tools to create XML schemas of common
pests and pesticide information and to create meta relations between them
using SQL tables. The goal is to create a system that helps farmers learn
more about pest management by integrating biological information with
pesticide information. We will be using MS asp.net, visual studio, SQL
server, and MS SharePoint to create an effective solution.
- A second part of the project is to developing a citizen science website
for pest management that will allow non-professionals to upload content to
an expert panel. With the advent of web 2.0 a key question is whether
extension information can be generated by public input or if it must be
created by a panel of experts. Non-professionals will develop content based
on the above mentioned XML schemas. This project involves developing web
forms and work flows and deals with authentication and security issues. We
will again be using asp.net and other assorted MS tools.
- Using MS SharePoint V.3, we are creating a collaborative authoring
environment for Cornell Cooperative Extension. It is both a content
management and content publishing project with the added caveat that the
material (stored in XML) must have both an XSLT and CSS for the web and for
print. For this project we will be using Office Collaboration server,
content lists and content types, a variety of databases, asp.net and other
tools to create an academic version of a social networking site.
- A critical component (for cost recovery) of the content management
project is to take content stored in SQL and XML files and make new
publications on the fly that will "print on demand". Here we assess document
hierarchies and metadata and combine content using the CSS and XSLT
mentioned above. There is an ecommerce component and legal questions to be
answered concerning the use of derivative works based on multiple content
sources. This is a fascinating extension of a content management system and
will require the use of asp.net and tools to create PDFs on the fly and pass
them to an ecommerce gateway.
- Yet another project is to develop a national pesticide safety web site
that provides targeted information to both home owners and professionals.
This web site must make use of web services and RSS to make information
available to both users, via a browser, or to web sites that use news readers
or other tools to consume published data streams and (re)display them on
another website. Once the information is in a content management system, it
can be passed to a browser, printed on demand, and licensed and distributed
using web services or news feeds. This project will requires knowledge of
asp.net, XML, CSS, RSS and web services. The content must interface with
open source technologies.
Detailed information on any of these projects is available upon request. All
of the work performed will be incorporated into the Cornell Cooperative
Extension system and will help to provide outreach services on both a local
and national level. Our team looks forward to your enthusiasm, competence,
and insight. Contact raj.smith@cornell.edu for more information or call
607-257-4578.
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