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

[pablo rey]

I am resending this thread, it seems it didn't go through.



On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:30 PM, pablo rey <pablo at basurama.org> wrote:

> 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
>> 1.607.351.5559 | schock AT mit.edu | @schock | E15-322
>> http://cms.mit.edu | http://civic.mit.edu | http://schock.cc
>>
>>
>
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