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Newspaper Digitisation Process Monitor

Newspaper Digitisation Process Monitor

Owned by Asger Askov Blekinge
Last updated: Sept 19, 2013 by MVersion comment

The Surveillance interface to the batch receiving process

A graphical web interface to show the current state for each batch. Wireframe http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/statsbiblioteket/newspaper-digitisation-process-monitor/blob/master/aviswireframe/aviswireframe.html

   Suggested solution:

  •   Each batch is represented as a row in a table
  • Each column represents an autonomous component, and the cell shows if this component have completed it's work on the batch
  • Each cell in the table is a simple lamp, that shows if the taks have been completed. Pressing the lamp will fetch more information.
  • The web interface integrates with MF PAK to get states from batches before and after digitisation
  • This interface could possibly be used to approve or reject a batch

Architecture

The web interface will get its data from a single RESTful web service. This web service is an API against the collection of batches of microfilms. The base URI is http://<server name>/batches. This API only supports the JSON internet media type.

 

request response
batches 

JSON list of {"batch-id": <id>, "events": {"<event-id>": {"succes": <boolean result of the event>, "details": <details string>}}}

batches/{batch-id} {"batch-id": <id>, "events": {"<event-id>": {"succes": <boolean result of the event>, "details": <details string>}}}
batches/{batch-id}/{event-id} 

{"success": <boolean result of the event>, "details": <details string>}

All three URIs can have a details parameter which has the default value of false. When details is true each of the above requests will return a detailed response. The content of this detail is to be decided.

The RESTful web service agregates information from several components of which three is known: The Newspaper MfPak Integration, the SBOI, and the component for generating dissemination copies. The web service is integrated with these component using a Java interface.

code base

The surveillance interface is split into two Maven modules, one containing the web service and one containing a web site for testing and developing. These two modules will be deployed as a single WAR file. It will be possible and recommended to create a new WAR containing a real web application using the RESTful web service.

Development

https://github.com/statsbiblioteket/newspaper-digitisation-process-monitor

Testing and Deployment

Link to jenkins project

Release Test

Description of how to deploy this thing