Authors: Huseyin Dogan, Keith Phalp, Ross Fenning
Tags: 2014, conceptual modeling
Whilst there are successful general web search engines such as Google that will find any piece of content, there is a perceived need for a specific search that makes better use of the internal knowledge the broadcasting industry (e.g. BBC) has about its own content. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a public service broadcaster funded by the licence fee paid by United Kingdom households. This industry-based case study looks at the applicability of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and Unified Modelling Language (UML) to design a hypothetical, high-level view of a search application that receives web content from a variety of BBC content production systems and makes every item then searchable by a BBC website visitor using the search feature. The developers of such search applications can benefit from this specific industry-based case study that contextualised the problem space using SSM and developed UML models to solve the problem.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_33
