[PageOneX] [dev] Arriving to beta and looking to the future

[pablo rey]

Hi Sasha,
This is not yet on the issue tracker but is definitively an important step
forward that it has came out several times (like when I presented in
http://mrap.info <http://mrap.info/index.html>). Researchers need a tool
that not only helps them code, but that makes part of the pre-coding for
them.

Do you want to add it to the issue tracker? I can also do it. We'll discuss
how difficult to develop this is soon.

thanks,
p


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Sasha Costanza-Chock <schock at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi Pablo, this is great! I tried out the dev version last night with
> (mostly) success :)
>
> I have a quick question re: user story I think is pretty crucial to solve:
>
> I'm a user, and I want to search for terms on newspaper front pages, so I
> know what date range to limit my pageonex project to.
>
> To solve this, ideally we would have to integrate with a search tool that
> knows whether stories are on the front page or not. Lexis Nexis can do
> this, for example, with NYT (limit the search to page A1), but I don't know
> whether it also does so for all papers. If we got integration of a search
> tool that does this, actually, we could save project creators and coders a
> huge amount of work.
>
> If that's not possible, we might at least provide people a link (or an
> iframe or modal box?) that allowed them to search on page1 using an
> external search tool (the hacky solution to the user story).
>
> Anyway, just wondering whether this is in the issue tracker yet. Thanks!
> sc
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/05/2013 10:08 AM, pablo rey wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> After last commits we are about to launch the beta site at pageonex.com
>> Congrats everyone for the hard work!
>>
>> What do we have so far:
>>
>> Installed developers version at dev.pageonex.com [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
>>
>>     - multiple area selection
>>     - export to ods and json [fix bug]
>>     - add/delete topics
>>     - clean database structure and code
>>     - new home + thread index view
>>
>> We are working on:
>>
>>     - Fix last bugs and tag this as version beta 1.0?
>>     - Test with real cases the dev site
>>     - Once ready launch the beta version publicly at pageonex.com
>>     - Pre-load this version with some key threads (from the dev version
>> and
>>
>>     previous heroku like the thread about
>> corruption<http://**pageonextester4.herokuapp.com/**
>> users/numeroteca/threads/**noticias_sobre_corrupcion_en_**spain<http://pageonextester4.herokuapp.com/users/numeroteca/threads/noticias_sobre_corrupcion_en_spain>
>> >
>>
>>     )
>>
>> Next steps:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> *Scraping*
>>
>> We are currently scraping from kiosko.net, future steps would include
>> other
>> data sources such as:
>>
>>     - newseum (http://www.newseum.org/**todaysfrontpages/<http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/>)
>> I am contacting
>>
>>     them to see what is possible to get from them
>>     - local files: images uploaded by users
>>     - newspapers: set up scrapers for the different newspapers (gdoc that
>>
>>     list different newspaper front page data to help bulid a
>> script<https://docs.google.**com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=**
>> 0AupjZBpCwY8UdEgwUndSeHp5bjBMR**HlJME1TSkZRZkE#gid=0<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AupjZBpCwY8UdEgwUndSeHp5bjBMRHlJME1TSkZRZkE#gid=0>
>> >
>>
>>     )
>>
>> The user would be able to select from different data sources when starting
>> a thread.
>>
>> *Coding*
>> Basic features:
>>
>>     - Fix slow behavior when many images in the thread with:
>>        - ajax
>>        - resize of images to show smaller images in the display view
>>     - Allow multicoder (sharing thread ownership)
>>
>> Others
>>
>>     - Allow simultaneous coding
>>     - Add annotation features (for days, for images)
>>     - Capability for magnet areas to avoid overlapping of areas
>>     - 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.
>>     - Allow multiple taxonomies (Ex: one taxonomy for theme + taxonomy for
>>
>>     frame analysis
>>     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/>
>>      )
>>
>>
>> *Display*
>>
>> Test D3 to allow richer visualizations and direct svg integration:
>>
>>     - bar char split by newspapers
>>     - live selection of newspapers to modify on the fly which newspapers
>>
>>     show in the bar chart
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> *Platform*
>>
>>     - Allow search and tagging of threads
>>
>> *Website*
>>
>> I am moving the blog to a location in the pageonex.com domain to have
>> everything integrated.
>>
>> *User driven development*
>>
>> People using the beta site would find bugs and will have needs.
>>
>>     - Encourage the use of the issue tracker and users mail list to report
>>     ideas, suggestions, needs...
>>     - Contact all the people that used previous versions of PageOneX in
>>
>>     heroku to test the beta site.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Happy spring,
>> p
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sasha Costanza-Chock
> Assistant Professor of Civic Media
>
> Comparative Media Studies
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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