1. DPS Dissertation System
Christopher Keene
ADD SCREENSHOT FOR DISERTATOIN DB SITE

2. Project Specifications/Goals
A web application used to categorize and store information about Pace DPS Dissertations including:
Subjects
Methods
Advisors
Related Publications
Various Reports
Project Goals:
Automate DPS Dissertation entries into the database
Automatically categorize dissertations based on the contents of the Abstract

3. Current System Entirely new frontend implemented
AngularJS
Popular JS framework for SPA (Single Page Web Apps)
Adds improved speed over previous implementation
Retrieves data from the back end by sending an AJAX request to the appropriate file
Bootstrap
Modern UI elements
Widely Used for styling responsive sites
Backend (PHP with MySQL Database)
Database queries remained the same
Data is returned as a JSON array
Reduced previous amount of PHP files by sending URL parameters to the query instead of individual files for each table

4. New System Specs Front End: Back End: jQuery UI JavaScript
RESTful service
Java
MySQL Database

5. Enhancements New frontend UI for uploading dissertations
Ability to upload dissertations by uploading the docx file
Selects keywords from the Abstract and returns entities to be placed into categories

10. Future Enhancements Ability to scan and parse pdf files
Ability to categorize dissertations based keywords from the abstract
Automate the entirety of the upload process
Allow the full dissertation to be stored and viewed from within the database
Further enhance the upload dissertation UI screen