Footprints: Software Components



Software Components

8/28/94 Draft

Macintosh Workstation:

Icon "wrapper" for workgroup tools used to connect to or work on

any aspect of the project being evaluated

Registration and time log (2 versions - multiple users at workstation

- single user only)

tracks who, time in/time out and ideally logs

separate tool use by time as well.

Daily/weekly/as-needed user completed questionnaire/log

Optional "deep" tracker - use of comms port and/or tcp/ip

time and volume

Mail agent to ship data back to central host

remote configuration of destination, id coding, and clearing archives

Windows Workstation:

Icon "wrapper" for workgroup tools used to connect to or work on

any aspect of the project being evaluated

Registration and time log (2 versions - multiple users at workstation

- single user only)

tracks who, time in/time out and ideally logs

separate tool use by time as well.

Daily/weekly/as-needed user completed questionnaire/log

Optional "deep" tracker - use of comms port and/or tcp/ip

time and volume

Mail agent to ship data back to central host

remote configuration of destination, id coding, and clearing archives

Network Server (UNIX Mail, WWW, etc server)

Daily/weekly/as-needed questionaire/log authoring tool with some

remote default settings configuration s well as local insertion options

Application loggers (who, what, how long)

??? network data collection, storage, and analysis tools ???

Central Server (UNIX)

Scalable data archiving for server and workstation data

Mail transfer agent (takes mailed data and moves it through indexing and storage.

Data security module - allows who to use what - protects individuals/organizations from unauthorized identification

Client/server tools for selection/analysis of data subsets

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