Pavel Alekseev
Prof. Anne Leonard
LIB 1201
17 May 2015
Research tool application proposal
Information is a most valuable matter in our days. Ability to get important
information as soon as possible any time can be very helpful in case of any type of
research. From one side Internet provides very broad amount of sources of information
almost for everyone. From the other, this diversity make research very complicated:
without clear understanding of what to search and understanding technology of it,
researchers can be frustrated very easy. Especially school and college students- less
experienced group. Particularly this group of researchers, specifically during first two
years of college doing tons of collecting information works, and most of them more or
less depends on periodical information: newspapers and magazines articles. Periodical
sources are the tricky ones. At first researcher will have a problem with revelation, at
second credibility always will be questionable, at third periodical sources can't stay long
available on the internet- middle age of life for New York Times article, for example,
three-four years (and it's a long one).
To solve all of these problems (more or less of course) and make research of
periodical sources much easier my group decided to create a special tool for research
of periodical information. We design and built it as an application. The work name of the
app is “Darticle”, and ideally it should be newspapers and magazines Twitter, with
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Google research tool. The application will combine all English periodicals and sort
through certain filters: time and date, relevance, credibility of source, topic. The
application will be collected only archived information from open resources, in order not
to cross copyright laws. Since idea of application is educational, the major group of
buyers will be educational organizations: colleges, libraries, and archives. Beneficial
part from this application, obviously, will be even bigger for organizations than for single,
private users: at first app will be serve on a field of popularization of archive and library
information, at second it makes research process much easier, which can reflect the
higher level of student's GPA.
In order to be sure that same application not already exist we all as a group did
online background search. As a result we realized that our product is unique and idea of
periodical research tool never being presented before.
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