Dataverse Software Engineering for Better Universe Data Management

Dataverse: Proposal Summary Introduction: What’s it all about? Map Features Thing Features An “Easy” Project Skill Sets Required Conclusion

Dataverse Introduction: A Data Manager Managing big worlds, like a game that’s run for several years, can be a major challenge: There’s just too much information, too many people, and too many events to remember… let alone catch up new players. So, we create a website that can keep track of all the game and story information we give it, and make it accessible to all players… Even world maps!

Dataverse: Maps! Upload images Group and color-code locations Zoom in and out

Dataverse: Things! People Events Places Hidden facts that only the author can choose to reveal!

Dataverse: An “Easy” Project? Well-defined requirements Fairly simple coding Very distinct subtasks Incremental development Results within the first week or two Usable and useful, too!

Dataverse: Skill Sets Required PHP or ASP SQL of any kind HTML CSS Javascript

Dataverse: Conclusion This is really just a web interface for a pretty simple database. It’s got well-defined requirements, and distinct subtasks for easy development. It should be easy to get the critical parts done first, with the hard parts noncritical. Face it, you secretly love web programs, and this one will get used!