Internationalisation

Hi,

I got some thoughts in mind nowadays. On the project that I'm working on now we are starting international support. I think that we can have that also in Viva.

There are a variety of reasons. I'm going to list them here:

1. First reason that I support internationalisation in Viva is that we all(almost) are living in a foreign country and some of us have been in more than one countries. What's more, we all have many friends(or contacts). This can
be interesting for the future of Viva and that's why I am for the internationalisation.

2. Another reason is that we want to support the educational institutes as far as possible. That means, there are some challenges to face on almost every institutional organisations. A very nice example for tahat is the number of exchange students on the universities, who sometimes lack of knowledge of local language, especially on the non-english speaking countries. It can be very hard to understand and use the system in such cases. That is again the point to support multiple languages. Of course we can not support all the languages on the earth, but we can support some popular ones.

3. The third reason is that it is really simple to implement. If we want to support another language, we just need to add a file and a couple of lines of code to support new languages. This enables a  loose coupled internationalisation module, which enables to make services that we offer becomes accessible from other locations. Of course this is a plan and does not have an official need of support, but I think that it can bring the project further on professionality. That possibly reduces the maintanence times of the system.

There are also some others, but these are the most important ones for now. I still did not begin developing but it I still have thoughts which can suport us.

Best wishes,
Altug

The documentation and the source of the web crawler and recommender system are published.

Now, its time to ;

- make decision about the framework,

- begin to write requirements.

Initial implementation of Viva Recommender and Viva Crawler has been completed. Reports will be published before 27th.

Viva ERM Crawler and Recommender System

Initial implementation of viva ERM web crawler and recommender system has just started! They will have completed on Nov, 24.

Viva ERM Career Module Job recommender system proposal is now ready!

Rest will come within 3 months.

Selda and I have decided to make a job crawler for viva ERM project :)

We need to develop a recommender system for IR course project. We thought that it will be nice to concentrate what we can add to viva ERM and then we have made a decision for a job crawler and job recommender system which we can integrate with Career module.

We still think about any new ideas which will contribute to viva ERM. And also we have a new member :)

Viva la Viva!!!

Hi all,

As I mentioned here, I had some ideas and these ideas lead today to a new restart. The new drafts of Viva ERM Portal will be probably on the way in a reasonably short amount of time. But the main problem still remains unsolved: time.

The kickoff meeting today was a really nice one. Besides having some interesting dialogues, we decided to start with the development of the Viva again.

The process began today with thinking and writing down new ideas and of course the old ones. The first step is personal module.

We also have someone new: Sadik from Ireland, welcome ;-). Probably someone else can also be with us in a short time, but now it’s a little bit too early.

So, making the long story short, we are on the way again. Hope a better start this time ;)

Altug