This presentation is part of a series of student presentations on their MSc thesis design. This is part of the joint VU and UvA Information Systems MSc program.

1. INTEGRATING EXTERNAL
SOURCES IN AGORA
Graduation Project
Sahar Mojtahedi
Feb 2012
VU Amsterdam

2. CONTENT
 Agora
 The Goal of the Study
 Research Questions
 Approach and Plan
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3. AGORA
 Platform to provide historical content
• Students
• Historians
• Researchers
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4. AGORA
 Consider a case:
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5. AGORA
 Consider a case:
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6. AGORA
 Consider a case:
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7. AGORA
 Fact:
Limited information domain
 Users’ approach:
Use other sources of information
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8. THE GOAL
 Main Goal:
Increase efficiency of Agora platform and to
bring more user satisfaction through integrating
external content in the platform.
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9. RESEARCH QUESTION
 What is the information need of users of the Agora
platform?
 To what extent does the presented information in the Agora
platform suffice?
 What kinds of external sources do users need?
 How can external sources be incorporated in the Agora
platform?
 What are the methods to do so?
 Which methodologies fit best in Agora?
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10. APPROACH AND PLAN
 Study user needs
 Which sources are used most commonly
 Study integration methods
 Different approaches for integrating external
sources into a platform
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11. APPROACH AND PLAN
 Design the integration for Agora
o Considering all previous studies specially user needs
 Implement the integration
 This project is scheduled for 130 days
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12. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
QUESTIONS ...
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