Meadeview is designed as website to be utilized by those within the Risk profession to perform risk related research. It is primarily a news and documents aggregator, and also provides various risk lists hosted from the application. The application’s primary and secondary features are identified below:
1. News Aggregation Service: Using Apache Lucene/Nutch, the application is designed to determine RSS feeds at a number of provided web sites, and then uses those RSS feeds to display news related to pre-configured searches
2. Document Aggregation Service: Using Apache Lucene/Nutch, the application crawls a number of provided web sites, and then returns text based documents which are contained on those sites. The application utilizes the LingPipe component in conjunction with the Prefuse graphing library to determine significant phrases within a document; and graph significant phrases across documents within the application.
3. List Hosting Service: The application provides users specified lists which are uploaded into the site by an administrator.
4. Content Indexing and Searching : All the content generated by News as well as Document aggregation would further feed to the Katta Shards for distributed Lucene indexes, later used for lighting fast searching.