TAPoR Redesign Project

Announcing TAPoR 2.0.

TAPoR 2.0 will, as of June 1st 2012, officially available for use at http://tapor.ca

The TAPoR Portal has being redesigned from the ground up. These wiki pages are dedicated to the redesign project.

The old portal will continue to be available at http://portal.tapor.ca

Ideas for the Portal Redesign

The TAPoR team has redesigned the portal to focus it on the discovery of text analysis tools. Part of the redesign is about removing features people were not using. What do you use the portal for? How do you use it? Email Kirsten Uszkalo (circe at ufies dot org) or Geoffrey Rockwell (grockwel at ualberta dot ca) to tell us what you are interested in for the portal.

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How to get involved

We are looking for reviewers to review and comment on tools. If you are interested, please send us a note.

• Send an email to Kirsten Uszkalo (circe at ufies dot org) describing how you would like to be involved
• Send an email to Kamal Ranaweera (kamal dot ranaweera at ualberta dot ca) and ask to be added to the email discussion group.

Design Process

• Objectives of Redesign - An outline of our objectives.
• Environmental Scan - This is where we are gathering ideas about the interface.
• Personas - Who we imagine will use the new portal and how.
• Wireframes - Early design ideas.
• Voting/Recommendation Scans - Scan of different voting and recommendation designs.
• Tags - What categories should we have.
• Comment System - Discussion of how to handle comments.
• Research Statement
• Backend Issues
• Do We Need Accounts?

This section links to documents with ideas about the new interface.

Tool and Badge Bazaar

The Tool and Badge Bazaar is our phrase for the database of tools that we imagine for TAPoR. TAPoR currently only allows the registration of tools that will work through the portal.

• Types of Tools - What types of tools should we be gathering (with examples)
• Portal Front Page Features - What information do we want on the home page of the portal
• Tool Fields - What information do we want to gather about each tool
• Comments - What do we want for commenting?
• Portal Comparison - This is a comparison of the TAPoR tools found at the McMaster and the University of Alberta portals, to assist tool usage interviews. Also included is a list of the tools found at the University of Alberta portal's wiki.
• Terms Listing - This is list of specialized terminology found in both the TAPoR and Voyant toolsets. It will eventually be migrated over to Hermineuti.ca as a help resource for users of those toolsets.
• Interface Improvements and New Features - A list of features and improvements suggested by the Advisory Board and others.

Tool Testing and Reviewing

An important part of improving the experience of researchers is making sure the tools are easy to use appropriately. We have developed guidelines for testing tools and reviewing them. The reviews then go into TAPoR 2.0.

• Tool Testing Guidelines - This is a set of guidelines for methodical testing of the TAPoR set of tools.
• Review Guidelines - This is an outline of the reviews we are commissioning for tools. These will go into comments that are fixed.

People Involved

• Project Leads: Geoffrey Rockwell, Kirsten Uszkalo, and Stéfan Sinclair
• TAPoR Advisory Board is a board advising in the redesign.
• TAPoR Volunteers are people who are helping us with the redesign.
• Just What Do They Do? is a SSHRC funded project to look at what text analysis users do. It includes subprojects to model new ways to help users discover tools. Co-investigators include Geoffrey Rockwell, Lisa Given, Eleni Stroulia, and Stéfan Sinclair. Amy Dyrbye, Lisa Goddard, Ali Grotkowski, and Joseph Dung have been Humanities Computing Research Assistants working on this project.

Meeting Notes

• Meeting Jan 17th, 2012 between Kamal and Geoffrey on TAPoR 2.0

• Meeting July 21st, 2011 between Kamal and Geoffrey on the test version

• Meeting June 29th, 2011 between Kamal and Geoffrey on the test version

• Meeting May 6th, 2011 between Kamal and Geoffrey

• Meeting April 4th between Kamal and Geoffrey

• Meeting March 18

-- GeoffreyRockwell - 08 Oct 2010

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