Noti architecture

Noti entities

Here is a diagram that shows the entities of Noti (Area, Site, Category) and its relationships. Basically, an Area can contain zero, one or many Categories. And a Category must belong to one (and only one) Site.

Components architecture

We're almost done coding the alpha version which consists of:

• a logic layer made in php, which communicates with the DB, handles all the heavy logic, and provides the Noti API
• the web interface which, in turn, consists of:
  • templates which define what the skin of the application
  • processes that receive data from the web interface (which is defined by the templates) and merge it into the system using the Noti API
• the crawlers, written in python, which do the work of fetching and parsing the news web sites and talk with the web interface (via XML) to upload the information gathered.