Editing Progress Report 2010 (section)

==Executive Summary==
For decades the written code that is linked to the “Somerton Man Mystery” (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case  Taman Shud Case]) has been undecipherable and delivered no solid information about his history or identity. This project aims to bring light to the unsolved mystery by tapping into the wealth of information available on the internet.  

Recent collection of random letter samples has been used to reinforce previous claims that the code is unlikely to just be a randomly generated sequence of letters.  Along with thorough revision and checking of previous code used to produce results, it has been agreed that the Somerton Man code is most likely initialism.

The code found with the dead man will be used in conjunction with a suitable “Web Crawler” and specific pattern matching algorithms. The aim is to target websites of interest and extract data from them that may hold answers to the Sumerton Man Code.  Such data refers to the huge amount of available rew text that can be found on websites.  This text will be filtered in search of character patterns that are also present in the Somerton code.   Once some solid results are obtained, frequency analysis will hopefully enable a solid hypothesis on some possibilities in regards to the meaning behind the code.

So far there has been substantial progress towards achieving the goal of the project.  Verification of past results has been completed along with extensive research and experimenting with web crawling devices and pattern matching algorithms.  The project has undergone some specification changes and still has a significant amount of work remaining along with some small problems to overcome.  Despite this, the project is well underway and should be completed successfully and on time.