architecture

user interface

The user interface is documented in frame, poem and dialogue.

database

The database is documented in general, context, poem, dictionary and form.

server

General

• Combination of using existing packages and writing some new code.
• Target server OS: Open BSD.
• Must support remote admin.
• If server sold as a product, package includes Open BSD CD.

Rights

Users + rights—rights are based on OS user id orin

• Rights: blocked, read, administer.
• App: blocked, use, advanced use, administer (e.g. local admin).
• Forum: blocked, use, moderate, administer.
• Blog: blocked, use, administer.
• Wiki: blocked, read, modify, administer.

Rights cross linked by machine id, so

• Machine: blocked, use, administer AND
• blocked, specific machine, list of machines, all machines.

Software licence management.

Component Updates

• Note availability of central updates.
• Categories of updates: software, data. Manage update dependencies on each other.
• Policies: ignore, update, optional, required (push).
• Target: specific machine, all machines.
• Every so often, maybe once a week, client asks server for list of current versions. Client then initiates download of required updates. Client permits user to select optional versions. In default installation, user initiates update checks.
• Server supports: list of current, historic lists, location of files, signatures. Requires signature of clients.
• Install alternatives: just drop files; just run (for uninstall of component, for example); drop file & restart app; run and restart app; run app and exit (for full replace).

Sales

• To register shareware version. Payment? Delivery?
• Support links from shareware marketing sites?
• Additional benefits?
• Explain the benefit of registration…
• Poetry bookshop link?

Forum

• Standard stuff, plus
• Topics each have a number of definable categories, such as poetry style, period, form. Users can choose structure to display.
• Upload, download poems.

Wiki

• Standard stuff, plus upload/download poems.
• Ensure uplink connectivity (e.g. to wikipedia, etc.).

Blog

Standard stuff, plus upload/download poems.

managers

• Presentation manager: displays poem and supports editing of poem.
• Layer manager: manages, integrates and displays results of analyses.
• Window manager: manages menus, toolbars and all the usual gubbins.

• Poem manager: connects user I/O with place in poem;
• Word manager analyses words to identify dictionary entries;
• Dictionary manager manages dictionary entries to yield phonetics, rhythm, syllable count, & thesaurus context.
• Stanza manager analyses words & white space to identify stanzas and line breaks.
• Phonetic manager analyses phonetics for rhyme, pararhyme, & alliteration.
• Liaison manager analyses phonetics and words for liaison.
• Syllable manager analyses syllables and white space for syllabics.
• Metre manager analyses rhythm for metre.
• Stress manager analyses words, punctuation, rhythm and phonetics for emphasis.
• Form manager analyses metre, line breaks and stanzas to identify form.
• Phrase manager analyses sequences of phonemes for repetition & cliché.
• Semantic manager analyses words themselves, plus sequences of phonemes, for synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms, meronymies, & holonymies, for semantic relationships. It warns about euphemisms.

• Audio manager: recording / replay of recital, maybe auto-generation of reading using Microsoft voice stuff (yuk but useful)
• Locale manager: not just standard locales, but regional accents too. Must support Scots, for example.
• Update manager: looking for updates to software and central data;
• Distribution manager: distribution of user work

• Version manager: for version orientated import/export/load/save of files.
• Help manager: for dealing with user help.

• Managers have sequences of stages. These stages are executed by threads in a threadpool.

2006