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Wishlist items and future development road map

Mia edited this page Aug 13, 2013 · 14 revisions

Development roadmap up to the 'end of summer' re-announcement

  • Automated deployment to live

  • QA (quality assurance) process to ok pushing code up to live, including: UX review against standards and vision; design review against guideslines/samples; code/functionality review.

  • Documentation to enable others to add their APIs and to enable a one-page document for QA testing

  • Zotero integration with 'your sources as input' completed and any quirks documented

  • 'Save results into Zotero' final code and UX plan agreed, integrated into the results screen for browser plugin users; team agrees is good to go live

  • 'Save results into Zotero' final code and UX plan agreed, integrated into the results screen for Zotero standalone users; team agrees is good to go live

  • 'Save results' as text final code and UX plan agreed, integrated into the results screen; team agrees is good to go live

  • Multilingual (mixed languages within input as well as languages other than English) code and UX plan agreed, integrated into the 'magic query box'; team agrees is good to go live

  • Review the randomness of the query generation algorithms - where does it need tweaking or is it good as it is?

  • Add functions to re-run the query with the same input text for additional serendipitous discovery (see also https://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic/issues/26)

Other wishlist items for possible 'end of summer' roadmap

(partly so we can remove some things from the issues queue that are better here)

  • Build in 'rearrange by' (group by via masonry filter function) on item attributes to be determined (based on minimum data quality) - item type, temporal, spatial fields would seem the most sensible but we may need to tweak depending on whether we can get data at a similar level of granularity (e.g. city/region/country, day, year, period, etc). See also https://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic/issues/29

  • Build the 'hint' function? i.e. 'If the results are a little too random, give us a date or place and we'll try again'. Is there a way to use hints about disciplines or is that not supported by the information we can get from APIs currently? And what impact does this have on serendipity?

  • Add a topic modelling function for parsing the text and test whether that gives us useful additional terms for the API queries

  • Pull in Zotero item abstracts and tags

  • Pull in an entire Zotero library (or change any text that promises that)

  • Pull in selected collections from a Zotero library

  • Add instructions for using items exported from other reference management systems (may also have a dependency on html stop words and coping with xml)

Other wishlist items

  • Change the front page layout on viewing after first successful go at the results screen to make the Zotero call to action a bit more prominent? The idea being that people are more likely to give Zotero a go after seeing how it works with other text. We could set a cookie when they've seen results to determine whether people see the 'on-boarding' or 'on-board' version.

  • Brian's twitter bot idea https://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic/issues/20.

  • API for serendipomatic itself so that other people can make use if it and integrate it in ways we haven't thought of? (farther in the future)

  • Make it possible to link to the "stash" results page with a seed url (e.g. wikipedia page) to allow sharing similar results (need to have text somewhere that makes it clear results won't be exactly the same every time)-- this might setup a simple way for the twitter bot to 'generate' / link to content; if we go this route, we should implement a twitter gallery card for linkable results pages, so the twitter feed will be able to display some of the results. (Note: use the twitter card validator before making this live)

  • Stable URLs for results obtained from Serendip-o-matic

API wishlist

  • DigitalNZ APIs http://www.digitalnz.org/developers

  • Are there any Asian/Middle Eastern/African national aggregators we can add as sources? Or for the moment is it a matter of adding subject-specific APIs like the Reciprocal Research Network API and checking the way place entities are recognised and set in queries to improve global coverage?