The Real Work Begins

Post date: Sep 30, 2014 7:9:15 PM

It dawned on us today that the blog has not been updated in a while....woops. In all fairness it has been a fairly busy week. Our project group has made a lot of headway on our proposal by extending it to the required length and fine tuning it to the an almost submittable product. On top of this intense task, we have midterms this week at WPI and we have other classes to worry about.

Anyway, we have made significant progress on our proposal. We have gone through several drafts of our introduction and literary review as well as greatly expanded on the methodology section. The methodology section now gives our readers as well as our group a better idea of how the project will progress after the completion of ID 2050 and makes us very excited to have real focus on the overall direction of our work. Our group intends on making some recommended changes to the current state of our proposal and you, our most loyal readers, can expect an updated version of it in the next day or two.

There is even better news because we had quite the productive and moral boasting meeting with the Advisors of our project center via Skype. Nothing makes a meeting more fun than having a meeting take place in three different time zones simultaneously, isn't technology great? After presenting our methodology to our Advisors and our intended deliverables we plan on completing over the time period of our project, our advisors were pleased and feel we are moving in the right direction. This was a concern for our group because we wanted to make sure all of our work would not have been in the wrong direction. Now that we have the seal of approval, we can take the time we aren't using perfecting the proposal to begin the actual project work that does not require us to be in Venice to complete.

The first real work we plan on doing involving the project before we leave is to run a practice on how we will evaluate fountains while we are in Venice. We would like to get the procedure down for assessing them by picking a fountain on campus and trying our procedure on it. This will allow us to figure out if our procedure will work and be ready to work as efficiently as possible when we arrive in Venice. Another piece of the project we can begin working on is meeting with our contact in the Venice: Through the Canals of Time group so he can share their group's procedure on creating detailed GIS maps using the Dorigo book. As soon as we get their procedure we can figure out a way to streamline the process and accomplish as much of the detailed mapping as we can in the time allowed by the project. Finally our more technical group member will have the opportunity to meet with the programer of the de'Barbari map on the Venice Project Center website. The purpose of this meeting will be to figure out his process when creating the map so our group can replicate the code of it and product a similar product with other maps.

As you can see we have accomplished a lot in such a short time, but there is still much work that needs to be done before our plane to Venezia takes off. We have to get back to work