AWOB Ideas

MPDL,GAVO

Entry 001
[Ideas of Mr. Sander]

Proposal of several interesting new components by Mr. Sander. A more detailed description will follow and be available in CoLab after a detailed discussion of Mr. Sander and AV scheduled for Dec 21.

Key words for possible tools to integrate in AWOB 0.5 or 1.0 (possibly even later version for BibSonomy) are:


 * Etherpad light, allows to snchronize an editor via IP (etherpad.org for installation - if you run into troubles, AV at least knows about some win7 Problems - please ask AV!)
 * i really like the Etherpad light and in fact we could probably integrate it well, as it has a fully documented API. We can start it simple, by providing service for collaborative editing and export to LR document library.. Next, we could probably check if it can be integrated as an editor for Wiki, Web content etc.. BUT! Be aware: NO UTF-8 SUPPORT --Natasa 11:06, 13 December 2011 (CET)
 * Shall we wait or cooperate?--Natasa 13:16, 15 December 2011 (CET)


 * BibSonomy (collaborative literature handling, works also with LaTex, www.bisonnomy.org, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibsonomy)
 * here i am not so certain about real benefits, as liferay provides it as well.. Mendeley, Zotero or some other tools could also be checked - well this is indeed use case dependent --Natasa 11:06, 13 December 2011 (CET)
 * as same domain, i put as a comment idea: Zotero could be used for document management library with local Zotero server, here scalability would not be problem as it uses MongoDB (see http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/dataserver_setup).. What may be the problem is that Zotero client runs only in Firefox, but seems that the new beta version for standalone run is solving this problem as well (see http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0) . As the server also allows for groups, would probably be nicely integratable with projects in LR, have to be thoroughly tested and checked in case idea is fine --Natasa 12:45, 13 December 2011 (CET)


 * Telco/Videocon booking unit (to implement in Lifery or to give links to secretary service)

Further ideas and ineterest in AWOB, possibly not directly to implement:


 * Calloboration environment for the MPG librarians and their working environment


 * Collaboration environment for the SHARE Project of the MPI für Sozialrecht. Should also run offline.

Entry 002
[Ideas of Malte, in a discussion with Andreas, + = easy to code ... +++ = hard to code]
 * a) External resources config. (++)
 * what is meant? Is it about configuration options for web services via portlet configuration? --Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

AV: As far as I understood Malte, it is meant that you can add resources you need or remove resources you do not need.
 * b) Tools config (+) (Portlet showing picture, title [+link])
 * what is meant? --Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

AV: Meant: Simple listing of icon/picture for a tool and a title. If you click on this icon, you are brought to tool. The tools are configurable in the sense that you can add/remove tools
 * c) Calendar showing Gantt charts (+++)
 * d) News, conferences, jobs: Scrollable and links to main pages (+)
 * already implemented via RSS feeds. But what means scrollable, not RSS feeds? Links to main pages depend on the RSS feed setting --Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

AV: Scrollable means that we can display more then 5 or 6 entries. Link to main page means that we can go somewhere from where we can do a search. Possibly already on the LR pages?
 * Publications
 * e) e-pubs (++)
 * f) Publ. feed config (+)
 * what means config?--Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

AV: Publication feed configurable means that the user gives some key words to constrain the results
 * g) e-log (+)
 * what is e-log?--Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)


 * h) Resource annotation (++/+++)
 * planned already originally, has to be reconsidered when resource management is implemented in more details.--Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

Add to AWOB 0.5 those features that can be easily coded (+), namely b, d, f, g.
 * What about multilingualism - supported by LR?
 * is supported--Natasa 09:51, 16 January 2012 (CET)

Entry 003
--Natasa 16:57, 13 February 2012 (CET)
 * Allow for users to create own tasks and engage other people outside of the project e.g. crowdsourcing
 * see http://pybossa.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#

Entry 004
AV presenting ideas of FS and Malte --Jkim 12:27, 23 February 2012 (CET)
 * Allow the quick creation of a default project ("sandbox")
 * If with "sandbox" is meant default content in a newly created project (and not a special area where people can experiment with special security features) I think it is a useful idea. In particular the Wiki area could contain as opening page text that explains how to use the Wiki component in AWOB. Will provide useful quick-start, avoiding the need to go to the documentation pages. It will take some thinking to create this content and design how to implement it. And since AWOB 0.5 will be tried out mostly by the project scientists with guided tutorials, I would propose to add this feature in AWOB 1.0 release. (as an example, take a look at the google site, it provides an excellent examples & documentation similar to 'sandbox' idea.)
 * The use case and mock up for creating a project  for demonstrator stated that only three fields are asked to create a project and only one of them (short name) is required and is specified as such. So according to the use case there is no need to type in a lot. At least for AWOB0.5  the interface could show which fields are required.

--Jkim 10:38, 23 February 2012 (CET) I think that the suggested conventions are better than those currently used.
 * Use the following naming conventions for the servers:
 * awob.mpg.de - this instance is visible to the public
 * qa-awob.mpg.de - this instance is used by our team to see the progress, also test instance
 * dev-awob.mpg.de - instance for the developers

Entry 005
Summary of usability interviews (German).