<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div style>After last commits we are about to launch the beta site at <a href="http://pageonex.com">pageonex.com</a></div><div style>Congrats everyone for the hard work!</div><div style><br></div>
<div style>What do we have so far:</div><div style><br></div><div style>Installed developers version at <a href="http://dev.pageonex.com">dev.pageonex.com</a> [don't share it publicly yet, although this list is public :-/ ] that includes all the new features [add disclaimer saying that it is a dev version, data might be erased]. Among many other things<br>
<ul style><li style>multiple area selection<br></li><li style>export to ods and json [fix bug]<br></li><li style>add/delete topics<br></li><li style>clean database structure and code<br></li><li style>new home + thread index view<br>
</li></ul><div style>We are working on:</div><div style><ul style><li style>Fix last bugs and tag this as version beta 1.0?</li><li style>Test with real cases the dev site</li><li style>Once ready launch the beta version publicly at <a href="http://pageonex.com">pageonex.com</a> </li>
<li style>Pre-load this version with some key threads (from the dev version and previous heroku like the <a href="http://pageonextester4.herokuapp.com/users/numeroteca/threads/noticias_sobre_corrupcion_en_spain">thread about corruption</a>)</li>
</ul><div style><font size="4">Next steps:</font></div><div style><br></div><div style>I've listed here some key points, to have a general view of what we can do in the following moths. We could discuss them on this Monday developers session.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><b>Scraping</b></div><div style>We are currently scraping from <a href="http://kiosko.net">kiosko.net</a>, future steps would include other data sources such as:<br></div><div style><ul style>
<li style>newseum (<a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/">http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/</a>) I am contacting them to see what is possible to get from them<br></li><li style>local files: images uploaded by users</li>
<li style>newspapers: set up scrapers for the different newspapers (<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AupjZBpCwY8UdEgwUndSeHp5bjBMRHlJME1TSkZRZkE#gid=0">gdoc that list different newspaper front page data to help bulid a script</a>)</li>
</ul>The user would be able to select from different data sources when starting a thread. <br></div><div style><br></div><div style><b>Coding</b></div><div style><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">Basic features:</span></div>
<div style><ul style><li style>Fix slow behavior when many images in the thread with:</li><ul style><li style>ajax</li><li style>resize of images to show smaller images in the display view</li></ul><li style>Allow multicoder (sharing thread ownership)</li>
</ul><div style>Others</div><ul style><li style>Allow simultaneous coding</li><li style>Add annotation features (for days, for images)</li><li style>Capability for magnet areas to avoid overlapping of areas </li><li style>
allow connection of areas to form one "area-article", this will lead to be able have the "count" of articles per day/newspapers in one topic.</li><li style>Allow multiple taxonomies (Ex: one taxonomy for theme + taxonomy for frame analysis <a href="http://numeroteca.org/2013/02/06/3-steps-to-measure-the-corruption-coverage-in-spain/">http://numeroteca.org/2013/02/06/3-steps-to-measure-the-corruption-coverage-in-spain/</a> )</li>
</ul><div><br></div><div style><b>Display</b></div><div style>Test D3 to allow richer visualizations and direct svg integration:</div><div style><ul style><li style>bar char split by newspapers</li><li style>live selection of newspapers to modify on the fly which newspapers show in the bar chart</li>
</ul><div style>Enable the selection of only certain days for the display view (different form the original time frame of the thread). Very long threads have difficulties for being displayed. In the past, a year long study implied the creation of 12 threads. This new feature would enable the creation of 1 thread and then visualize only certain parts of it.</div>
<div><br></div><div style><b>Platform</b></div><div style><ul style><li style>Allow search and tagging of threads</li></ul></div><div style><b>Website</b><br></div><div style>I am moving the blog to a location in the <a href="http://pageonex.com">pageonex.com</a> domain to have everything integrated.</div>
<div><br></div><div style><b>User driven development</b></div><div style>People using the beta site would find bugs and will have needs.</div><div style><ul style><li style>Encourage the use of the issue tracker and users mail list to report ideas, suggestions, needs...</li>
<li style>Contact all the people that used previous versions of PageOneX in heroku to test the beta site.</li></ul><div style>A lot of ideas, and much more that do not fit in this email. Happy to see that we'll be on the air soon.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Happy spring,</div><div style>p</div></div></div><div style><br></div></div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>