We have ordered the initial computing platform (a Sun Ultra with 9GB hard drive) for system development, and expect delivery before the end of the year. In the meantime, we are installing and testing software on available Sun workstations in the School. We are awaiting approval of purchase of the video equipment for the project, and are obtaining quotes for the computer to support document preparation and statistical analysis.
Collaboration agreements have been initiated with both UBILAB in Zurich (see http://www.ubs.com/ubilab/Projects/Projects.html), and with Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland (see http://roadkill.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research/ir/ ). At the former institute, we are working with Professor H.-P. Frei, and Drs. Tore Bratvold and Gabrielle Sonnenberger. Our current major collaborator at Robert Gordon University is Professor David Harper. These agreements have the collaborating institutions providing us with software, software support, and advice, especially with respect to Task 2. In return, we will be offering them the results of our interface work, and also of our system integration work. These arrangements were formalized at meetings in Zurich in August 1996.
A WWW home page for the project has been created, where project reports will be placed, and with links to related sites, and our collaborating institutions (see http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~carballo/projects/tipster3 ).
Two externally funded Ph.D. students have joined the project (they are in addition to the three Graduate Assistants funded by the project). Soo Young Rieh will be working on the project at least until June 1997. Pam Savage will be working on the project as part of her PhD dissertation research, which should mean about two years from this December. These students will be working on both Tasks 1 and 2.
Nicholas Belkin rejoined the project full time, having returned from his Fulbright Fellowship in Finland in mid-November.
We have initiated discussions with Boeing, FIDUL and NIST on possible user study groups. These discussions are now in progress, and we plan to begin working with an initial study group by the end of January 1997.
We are in the process of designing data collection instruments for the user studies. We are preparing the instruments for initial pilot testing at Rutgers. Because aspects of the instruments will be dependent on the actual site and subject group, final completion and piloting of the instruments will be accomplished as soon as the initial user group is identified.
We have acquired, installed and are testing ObjectStore ( http://www.odi.com/), Zprise ( http://potomac.ncsl.nist.gov/~over/zp2/main.html), Inquery ( http://cobar.cs.umass.edu/inqueryhomepage.html), Tk/Tcl and Java. ObjectStore is the Object Oriented Database Management System on which FIRE is based. Zprise and Inquery are two of the different information retrieval (IR) systems we will be using. Tk/Tcl and Java are the languages we will use for interface development and construction.
We have arranged for delivery of FIRE in January 1997 from UBILAB. This is the framework in which the IR techniques will be implemented.
To send mail to participants:
RU-Tipster team:
ru-tipster@carballo.rutgers.edu
Nicholas Belkin:
nick@belkin.rutgers.edu
JoséPérez-Carballo carballo@carballo.rutgers.edu
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