Mail describing report format

Dear participant in DM79

at the lecture today, we discussed the project and the report form. The way I hear it, things work out such that there should be a change for everybody do some non-trivial amount of work on some part of a search engine - crawling, indexing, pageranking, query part (and if everybody complete their commitment, we should also end up having a working prototype for some subset of the web). Contact Lukasz (despite his resignation as project leader) for details for the state of the project (he is probably the one with the best overview), if you are uncertain about the state or your working area.

However, you are *yourself* responsible for actually doing a meaningful, non-trivial programming effort. Please mind that you will not be able to write any report (with a chance to pass) without such an effort.

We have discussed the format of the report at various time in class, but let me here describe (again) the format I think is best given the basically singleton-groups we have now:

Each person is to write a single-authored report of 7-10 pages. The main part should be a detailed description of the task you solved (and in particular how you did it), including any interfaces to the remaining search engine parts. The rest should describe the context of your contribution, i.e. the remaining parts of the project (and possible something about the entire proces, seen from your tasks point of view), but on a much smaller level of detail.

I do not want any code submitted, but give in the report a path (on the Imada system) or an url to a position where I can access you code if I want to inspect it.

If your have any questions, do not hesitate to write (or better, ask in the class - which of course means you have to show up ;-).

Best regards,

- Rolf.