ARC PROJECT MANAGEMENT

GMB

last updated on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:12

Contents

1. General Information
   1. Description

   2. Purpose and goal of the project
   3. Client contact
   4. Personnel
2. Scope and Scale
   
   1. Customer

   2. Users/ audience
   3. Scope
   4. Partners
3. Architecture / Design
   
   1. Project Specification

   2. Requirements
   3. Project home and resource storage
   4. Related projects

4. Project status
   
   1. Timeline

General Information

Description

GMB is an acronym for Geomicrobiology, a web-driven project for managing data and assets associated with Geologic/Microbiologic research at PSU. The project aims to create a webpage where geology faculty and graduate students can view and edit data assosciated withongoing projects. It will create a centralized location for such information, and increase productivity in doing so.

The project has gone through several stages of development and naming. When originally developed by Percy it was called FLIMS (Field and Laboratory Informations Management System). Later it was renamed to Geo-LIMS, though this version under construction for the GEM lab is called GMB. We hope to generalize it for any field and lab based domain in the future.

Purpose and goal of the project

GMB is intended to allow users (usually Geology faculty and grad students) to view and edit data associated with ongoing projects. Dr. Sherry Cady is the chief faculty member of PSU's Geomicrobiology endeavors, and this application is intended to be a tool to help her organize and manage the data related to her research projects. The application is intended to organize geomicrobio data by:

1. Projects
2. Sites
3. Samples
4. Splits
5. Analyses

In addition to this hierarchy, there is also an entity known as "Funding Source" which relates a Project to some organization that provides funding for the Project. The Project to Funding relationship is a many-to-many relationship. Also, while a Site must belong to a Project, a site may belong to more than one Project. There are also keywords and file assets, each of which can be associated with any of these entities..

Client contact

David Percy
Sherry Cady

Personnel

Cris Holm
David Percy

Scope and Scale

Customer

Sherry Cady (PSU Geology Department Faculty)

Users/ audience

PSU geology faculty and grad students.

Scope

The scope of the project is to provide an interface that presents the Project-to-Analysis hierarchy to the user and maintains these relationships in a straight-forward way. The user may add/modify/delete specific items within this hierarchy and associate assets (files and keywords) to any of them.

Partners

Architecture/Design

Project Specification

Requirements

PHP 5 and MySQL 4 (or greater)

Project home and resource storage

This project's temporary home while under development is: http://geospatial.research.pdx.edu/~holmc/GMB/

Related Projects

Project status

Timeline

Version 1 finished September 2006.