architecture
This is a technical architecture diagram. There are several stages for the documents to arrive at the client browser. They are listed in order from the source information to the user here:
source websites Source websites. Mainly social sector magazines and newspapers that report on CSR issues
redhat 9 development machine (private)
xsearch development source database Development PostGRES store of all the company information and analytical source web pages/lexographical data
internet spider C++ program that searches, analyses and files documents found in a subset of social sector websites that are about companies. Linked to: Curl, WordNet, pthread, pdfToHMTL and postGRES libraries
redhat 9 live machine (public hosted)production xsearch database Production PostGRES store of all the information/scores/documents about companies and productsTIPs explorer bar webpages Provides the analysis explorer bar page and also access to the database via request pagesTIPs full company information webpages Provides full information about companies, documents database, quick view, relationships and scores
internet explorer plugin C++ COM Internet Explorer plugin that takes the current webpage and requests an analysis from the central TIPs server. Results are shown in the fold out Explorer bar