Project Status

• Sept. 28: Project proposal and system architecture completed [completed]
  Notes:
  The project proposal is available here and the the system architecture is available here.

• Oct. 15: Parsing of RDF data capability and scene structure completed [completed]
  Notes:
  RDF parsing capability is added through the use of Brahms. Brahms is platform-independent, but no Visual Studio solution existed, so I created one to build the project on Windows. All the necessary files were included in the distribution, except the Raptor header files. The Visual Studio project files can be contributed back to the Brahms project.
  
  The scene structure is fairly simple. We use a fixed camera with a view of a globe, an image of a suspect, and the associated metadata. Since a GUI is not available in Mage, everything needs to be controlled by keyboard, and the interactions must be simple. Currently the globe can be set to automatically rotate, or it can be done manually.

• Oct. 31: Visualization of metadata completed [completed]
  Notes:
  This part of the project involved drawing text to the screen that describes the metadata for each subject. Also, playing of telephone (audio files) was implemented.

• Nov. 15: Alpha version completed [completed]
  Notes:
  A hard drive crash caused some lost work, but luckily most of the project was in Subversion. I am working on resolving a bug in the GPS coordinate to Cartesian coordinates conversion method that causes points to be incorrectly mapped on the globe. I also added the drawing of 3D lines to Mage, which involved writing a fair amount of code. The content (RDF, images, audio) for the project is being collected.

• Dec. 1: Development completed and final testing [completed]
• Dec. 8: SemanticSpy prototype and final report completed [completed]