Displaying the information about the related materials in a manner that is not distracting and stays within the spirit of rememberance agents. Examining the benefits of using a rememberance agent over other existing search and indexing technologies. Since this project is more of an exploration of the possibilties of using a remeberance agent in a slightly less than conventional manner, the system was implemented in a prototype fashion. While still fully-functional, it does not fully exploit all of the possible data sources provided by Classroom 2000. Instead, it aims to provide an example of how such a system might be integrated into the existing Classroom 2000 software and how useful it might prove to be.
Savant requires textual document to be able to index for later retrieval.
The script would determine based upon directory dates which courses had been updated and only create the text files for the lectures added since the last time the script had been run. Once this script had completed its work, the ra-index program for the Savant RA would be run to update the indexes. The retrieval part of the system was performed by using Perl scripts to act as a middle-man between the user and the Classroom 2000 database. The user would load a special copy of the listing of all captured Classroom 2000 lectures, which would point to a Perl script instead of the usual database access page. The script would perform the desired database access, edit the results to add in the appropriate RA data, and present it to the user.