The Modules of Vesuvius

For IT Adopters and Users

The tables below broadly delineate the modules of Vesuvius and provide an estimate of their maturity. At the overview level of description here, the tables generally apply to all versions (e.g., Vesuvius Trunk packaged, Vesuvius Trunk latest, and NLM People Locator) unless indicated otherwise. There may be more divergence with Kilauea. Modules within NLM's People Locator have been developed and supported as part of the NLM Lost Person Finder project.

Stage of Development (as of 1st Q 2012):

Icon	Meaning
	Stable, only minor development on-going
	Under active development
	New & unstable
	An idea for the coming year

Required versus Optional:

	Required
	Optional

Other Attributes:

	Includes cron-job daemon, init service, or 3rd-party engine
	Separate install from Vesuvius

History:

	Derived from a Sahana-sponsored Google Summer of Code 2011 project
	Derived from a Sahana-sponsored Google Summer of Code 2010 or earlier project
	Successor to a Krakatoa module of the same name.*
	Module specific to and deployed in NLM People Locator
	Module developed by NLM but not deployed at this time

* Vesuvius modules may have more and different features and capabilities than what are described in the Krakatoa table of User Guides. Beyond those modules indicated by this icon, many modules have some design or code influence from earlier Sahana versions.

Available modules are given by their formal names, as well as their technical abbreviations, sometimes helpful to know.

Name	Abbrev.	Req?	Brief Description	Stage	Comments
Administration	admin		This allows initial and on-going system configuration and control.
User Preferences	pref		This permits user-specific settings.
XML Streaming Module	xst		Allows streaming of XML content.
Arrivals	arrive		AJAX modue to watch the realtime influx of persons.
LPF Class Library	lpf		This defines PHP classes used by multiple modules.		Needed most notably by arrive, eap, em, eq, ha, inw, mpres, plus, pop, pref, rap, report, rez
Hospital Administration	ha		This allows hospital administrators/emergency managers to enter & edit organizational & event data.		v2.0 completed recently with a snazzy new ajax appearance
Search	inw		(Interactive Notification Wall) This offers search and display capabilities (including filtering and dynamic update) for missing and found persons reported from multiple sources (desktop web, mobile web, PFIF repository, TriagePic, ReUnite app) as replacement) to the old MPR module's search function.		Projected work involves search improvement by integration with Lucene/SOLR search engine; more flexible filters.
MPR Email Service	mpres		The Missing Person Registery Email Service parses incoming information about missing & found people from TriagePic (Windows), ReUnite (iPhone), and semi-structured (vanilla) email.		Supplements the work of Person Object Provider (pop).
Person Locator User Services	plus		Provides SOAP Document Literal web services, to support ReUnite, TriagePic, and other applications that wish to report or consume data from Vesuvius.		In constant fdevelopment lately : https://pl.nlm.nih.gov/plus
Event Manager	em		This allows a hospital admin or Sahana admin to define and geolocate disasters/incidents/events.
Resources	rez		This defines the content of the home and other web pages. It supports largely static web pages of information, arranged hierarchically, by a mini-content-management-system. HTML content is stored in the database, with a simple editor for the content provider.		Currently building out multi-language support, for context-rich whole-page translations (rather than Pootle-style phrase translation).
Snapshot module	snap		This allows backup and restore of database instances, provided they are under 200MB.		Requires admin privileges.
Post Office Provider	pop		This handles outbound email.		Takes over some of the 2009 functionality of mpres namely outbound email.
Report	report		This is based on and supersedes mpr's 'report a person'.		Simply creates a 'stub' person record which is then handed off to EAP to edit.
Edit a Person	eap		For a previously-reported person, whose record is retrieved, this allows revision or expansion. One view will support the use case of hospital personnel correcting data originally received from TriagePic.		Based on and supercedes part of mpr.
Edit a Person 2	edit		A complete re-write of the above EAP module using AJAX and DAO class objects provided by the LPF module. Will incorporate a myriad of new features.		Based on and supercedes EAP once complete.
Flash Camera Picture Taking	cam		Using Flash/Shockwave technology, this allows controlled capture of a photo from a webcam.		Based on earlier Sahana framework code, modularized.
Expiry Queue	eq		This allows the management of record expiration requests made by users without sufficient privileges to manually expire records.		Intended for admins.
Abuse Queue	aq		This allows the management of reported abuse cases.		Intended for admins.
Statistics	stat		For a particular event, this will provide all-person data in tabular and graphical form, categorized by time, status, and other features.		Analogous to hospital dashboard displays, it will offer cumulative and time-based views.
TriagePic Module	tp		This exposes a face for the download of the TriagePic application for hospital personnel.
People Finder Information Format	pfif		This supports supervision of data import/export in PFIF 1.2, 1.3 formats with accompanying photos.		Some of this functionality was previously within mpr.