Reflective Journal Entry (Week 2):

During the contact session we were asked to write four design Ideas each and post it on white board. Our constraint was that we have to use Trove’s API in some way. http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Trove helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It’s more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives and other research organisations and gives you tools to explore and build.

Trove is many things: a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata, and a growing repository of full text digital resources.

Best of all, Trove is yours, created and maintained by the National Library of Australia.

(Source : http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/about)

Next was the brainstorming session in which we had to make different Major/sub-categories of those ideas and sort them under those categories and merge any two similar Ideas. Iterate through this process until you find the most suited idea that you think is implementable.

My Concept:

Create a website with crime maps and other interactive features. e.g. Hot spots, Maps, Timeline and Graphs etc.

This design concept involves fetching the data from Trove API and other sources and then manipulating that data to find trends and patterns in the data. Later cluster that in the form of Map representations.

Target user groups:

Potential home buyers, Researchers, Social workers, Law enforcement Agencies and community workers.