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MQPs celebrating the
20th Anniversary of the Venice
Project Center!
http://www.veniceprojectcenter.org/mqp2.0.html
The first IQP at the Venice Project Center was
completed in term B of 1988. To support
the efforts towards a proper
celebration of the twenty-year anniversary of its inception, we propose the
following Venice Project Center MQPs for the 2008-2009 academic year, with the
possibility of spending term B08 or B09 in
Venice, Italy.
You can get full information about all of our
Venice 2.0 initiatives by clicking on the ovals in the big picture diagram or from our comprehensive Venice 2.0 dashboard.
Projects can take place
throughout the entire academic year, typically in 1/3 unit increments, and/or
in Venice. If going to Venice, the
preparation will in term A (1/3 ISP) and
students will complete the entire MQP in Venice in term B (3/3). Hybrid schedules, with shorter periods in
Venice can be negotiated if necessary, including work in term E (summer).
Please follow the links on this page and if you find the projects
interesting, email it to carrera@wpi.edu.
Computer Science MQPs
The overarching goal of the proposed
CS MQPs is to apply innovative, web
2.0 technologies to leverage the wealth
of geospatial information [10mb pdf
| 45Mb ppt] that has been accumulated in relational databases
(Access) and geographic information
system (GIS) layers (Mapinfo) by the 500 WPI students who completed over
120 IQPs and 10 MQPs in Venice since 1988 (see wiki-repository).
The baseline datasets organized
by the projects will lay the foundation for a planned Venice 2.0 Mashup Camp.
In this anniversary year, the
main goals to be achieved by the CS teams are:
·
To continue the efforts to create an online tool for the
accumulation of transcriptions of ancient
manuscripts (firefox only). Students
will work with the Venice
State Archives. Read Prof.
Carrera’s paper on the topic to get an idea of the enormous potential of
this project to drastically change how HISTORY is made.
·
To finalize the release of the BETA version of LOUIS (Local Online Urban
Information System). LOUIS, is an
enhanced municipal version of Oliver, the Massachusetts OnLIne data
ViewER and City Lab has
been cooperating with MassGIS on its development since 2006. The first step will be to create a searchable,
geospatial web-repository to showcase the information
accumulated by WPI students in Venice since 1988. The goal is to release all our information
through sophisticated web and mobile interfaces that leverage the richness of
our geospatial data, and to give our datasets “a life of their own” by allowing
(refereed) crowdsourced
updates where possible. Once the
fundamental tools are in place, we will begin to work on a list of ideas
for possible applications that we would like to develop in the next 18
months. It is expected that the some of
the applications will make use of “autonomous software agents”
and will be conducted in collaboration with the Santa Fe Institute and Redfish Group.
All projects will be open-source and adopt
appropriate web 2.0 techniques
such as “reputation
management”, mashups,
social networks, RSS, semacodes, sms, wikis, blogs, folksonomies, city knowledge and
others. All applications will be based
on a service-oriented
architecture and will employ web-services where
appropriate. Programming will entail
using Ajax techniques, Javascript, MySQL/PostrgeSQL, XML, Open Geospatial
standards, Linux, Apache, etc..
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Consult the above-listed URLs for
additional information.
For
questions, email carrera@wpi.edu
Prepared by: Fabio
Carrera
Revision
of: March 21, 2008