Welcome to the GitHub repository for team Quintinium's Ruskin search engine! We are a team of students at SLU (Southeastern Louisiana University) taking Computer Science 285, Software Engineering. Students taking this course work together in groups and gain real-world experience with the Agile software development process by partaking in a collaborative software engineering project. Our group, Team Quintinium, has chosen the Ruskin search project.
As of 4/26/2016, our search engine has been deployed live on the Ruskin website. You can try out our search engine here: http://english.selu.edu/humanitiesonline/ruskin/search/
The Ruskin search project is a real-world software engineering project that aims to provide full search functionality for the Ruskin website, which is maintained by SLU's English department. The Ruskin website was originally created by Dr. David Hanson, head of SLU's English department. The purpose of the Ruskin website is to provide a vast collection of scholarly material surrounding the early literary works of the author John Ruskin as he and his family traveled throughout Europe. Not only are there transcribed versions of Ruskin's handwritten journals, but there are also a number of scholarly essays available. This only begins to describe the vast contents of the Ruskin site. Team Quintinium's "search project" is to provide a user-friendly search engine for this variety of content, allowing users of the Ruskin website to effortlessly locate important people, places, and works regarding John Ruskin. We will be integrating this search engine into the Southeastern English Department's existing Ruskin website.
- Elena Mizell (team leader)
- Benjamin Henry
- Justin Moore
- Kevin Dyer
- Garth Kiepper
Our clients are Dr. David Hanson; head of SLU's English department and founder of the Early Ruskin Manuscripts project, and Brittney Jarreau; a student at SLU who also contributes to the Early Ruskin Manuscripts project. Team Quintinium will also be working closely with Dr. David Hanson and the English department to ensure that our search engine fulfills their vision for the Ruskin website by meeting the needs of website users and providing necessary functionality.