Transcript Dataverse

Dataverse
Software Engineering
for Better Universe
Data Management
Dataverse:
Proposal Summary
• Introduction: What’s it all about?
• Map Features
• Thing Features
• An “Easy” Project
• Skill Sets Required
• Conclusion
Dataverse Introduction:
A Data Manager
Managing big worlds, like a game that’s run for
several years, can be a major challenge:
There’s just too much information, too many
people, and too many events to remember…
let alone catch up new players.
So, we create a website that can keep track of
all the game and story information we give
it, and make it accessible to all players…
Even world maps!
Dataverse:
Maps!
• Upload
images
• Group and
color-code
locations
• Zoom in
and out
Dataverse:
Things!
• People
• Events
• Places
• Hidden facts
that only the
author can
choose to
reveal!
Dataverse: An “Easy” Project?
• Well-defined requirements
• Fairly simple coding
• Very distinct subtasks
• Incremental development
• Results within the first week or two
• Usable and useful, too!
Dataverse: Skill Sets Required
• PHP or ASP
• SQL of any kind
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
Dataverse: Conclusion
This is really just a web interface for a
pretty simple database.
It’s got well-defined requirements, and
distinct subtasks for easy development.
It should be easy to get the critical parts
done first, with the hard parts noncritical.
Face it, you secretly love web programs,
and this one will get used!