Meeting Notes Nov. 7, 2007

Agenda

• Making the portal work for bibliographic references
• The Google TAPoR idea and how to implement it

Changes to portal to support bibliography

• Geoffrey created account called JitrTexts^? in Portal to server as bibliographic repository for RDI projects
• Date field needs to be looked at
• Need a way for URL to be a simply a reference (like an amazon page), and not a TA target itself. It cases in the bibliographic model, URL may actually be full text, but other times will just be an amazon. Suggestion is that we need a checkbox to mark as reference only.
• Change File Format options to add something like "Bibliographic Reference'.
• Need to modify the 'meta' button result view to show bibliography formatted citation.

That the Portal already has capacity to export selected texts...Cool!

Do we need a way of displaying all the entries in bibliographic form?

Google TAPoR

• The first page is the simple page
• What buttons and look do we want?
• We probably want a two line input box, to suggest that more than a word or phrase can be input
• We are targeting two buttons: an "analyze this" button and a button like the "I'm feeling lucky" that suggests appropriate texts and inputs them automatically
• These texts would give particularly good results demonstrating the tool
• a Wheel of Texts was suggested
• We then have three ways to go for the results page
  • We could go to HyperPo
  • We could use TAPoR Summary Like
  • We could end up on screen that gives top 10, top 10, top 10 and suggests tools with graphic outcomes < I think this is the one we like

Next Steps

• Brad will wireframe a process
• We will try the 'pasted text' input on the first iteration and layout the steps that would happen and what a user would see at each step

• James wants a tool that suggests gender of writer
• Geoffrey reiterates that in this solution (unlike portal) we need to be feedining back during the analysis process..thus, the user will sense that tools are moving in a certain direction towards clarity -- serious tweening.

Action Items

• Lian to take lead
• James to support
• Need to build a recipe to show how to use the portal as a bibliographic repository.
• Brad to work on GTapor and will present some initial thoughts in two weeks.

-- BradKarelson - 31 Mar 2008