The technology the Zuccaire Gallery has access to is a website hosted on Stony Brook University’s server. Our interactive campus map project can reach the target audience, which are visitors interested in visiting Stony Brook University’s art galleries, by providing a link from the art gallery’s website to our interactive campus map website. The platform will be web based and should be able to reach any end-user that has access to the internet. Users should be able to click on the map to see what each art gallery has to offer and what events may be coming up for the gallery they have selected. The client will be able to edit and manage the interactive campus map to display different events and art pieces using the database management system part of the platform, and this system will be distributed to anyone managing an art gallery at Stony Brook University. The website will be hosted on Professor Scarlatos’ server and any future updates to the database will be done by art gallery managers to update events and art pieces they want to display on the interactive map.

To make a quick prototype, we will reference SBU’s current interactive campus map (https://www.youvisit.com/tour/map/stonybrook/?pl=v) and use SVG files to build our own interactive map to show where artwork is located on campus. This map would be implemented as a web application using Filemaker. With the help of Filemaker, we can make our application scalable in the small to medium development arena, since Filemaker can support up to 500 users at the same time. To implement modularity, we can have a user module that handles logic about users and their authentication details so that this information is not scattered throughout our code base. Filemaker provides several security features, such as authentication with accounts, access control with privilege sets, data encryption on the disk and during transmission, and server monitoring and administration. To improve stability, we will perform stability testing, keep the app clean and free of clutter, and plan for offline capabilities. Finally, to ensure that the application is sustainable and maintainable by the client, Filemaker will allow authorized individuals to update the application.