Meeting Notes from February 26th, 2009

Notes from Susan, Peter and Geoffrey about what is needed for

Peter created a wiki page at http://tada.mcmaster.ca/Main/Summer2009Roadmap.

To start, here are some possible features that we've identified in the past:

Emphasized in our most recent meeting: XML editor citation metadata sharing (but not necessarily roles)

From our January 17th meeting:

tags (and hierarchical tags/categories) roles > access management pd database/inclusion (??) annotation / notes

autonomous but with flexible rights limitations

spidering HTML cleaner / pdf to text sharing dashboard / status notifications API

allow tools in export stuff out

backup functionality

From the JiTR Infogrid: Collection Manual item adding (fetching of specified URL) Continuous spidering Manual item add: all by field Manual item add: upload from computer Easy spider building blog tracking Wikipedia change tracking Collection wizard Using search engines relevance threshold search paid databases search templates versioning acurate date detection

Analysis Count words / word cloud advanced TAPoR Tools importing data back from external processes extensibility:external processes within environment tools for longitudinal study

Organization Backups (exporting entire collection) Tagging Easy deletion of items (one-click) Notes for items linking to sections of items Umbrella tags ("categories") Color coding Trash (psuedo-delete) and Permanent Delete

Processing / Editing HTML cleaner PDF to text conversion Status Indicators (complete/incomplete parts of editorial process) Metadata validation Authority Lists Workflow Editor

Social Sharing collections Sharing items Sharing Notes ( with a specific user)

Other Updates: email notifications Export report of items (with notes) Public collection URL View of all documents Customizeable Reports (dashboard) Read / Unread Markers for Notes Mark Unread Option for Notes Visual Preview (with project stylesheets) Personal research log

Documentation / Assistance Example user stories Video walkthrough "tutorial" collection upon first login clean, uderstandable front page Workflow type templates Document Templates

-- GeoffreyRockwell - 26 Feb 2009