Now that I've settled on the types of comments to support, where do they appear? What is commentable? I've given a lot of thought to this lately, and have had more than one really good conversation about it. In a comment to an earlier post, Kathleen Burns recommended I investigate CommentPress, which supports annotation on a paragraph-by-paragraph level with a spiffy UI. At … [Read more...] about Feature: Comments (Part 2: What is commentable?)
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Feature: Comments (Part 1: What is a comment?)
Back in June, Gavin Robinson and I had a conversation about comments. The problem with comments is figuring out whom they're directed to. Annotations like those in Pepys' Diary Online are directed towards both the general public and the community of Pepys "regulars". Sites built on user-generated content (like Flickr, or Yahoo Groups) necessitate "flag as inappropriate" … [Read more...] about Feature: Comments (Part 1: What is a comment?)
Progress Report: Layout, Usability, and Collections
I've gotten a lot done on FromThePage over the last month: I finished a navigation redesign that unites the different kind of actions you can take on a work, a page, or a subject article around those objects. I added preview and error handling functionality to the transcription screen We — well, Sara actually — figured out an appropriate two-column layout and implemented … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Layout, Usability, and Collections
UI and Other Fun Stuff
Sara and I spent about an hour yesterday talking about the Renan System's UI on our drive to Houston. For someone who is frightened and confused by user interface design, this turned out to be surprisingly pleasant. She's recommended a two-column design, since the transcription page is necessarily broken into one column for the transcription form and one column for the … [Read more...] about UI and Other Fun Stuff
Progress Report: Article Links
Well, that was fast! Four days after announcing that this blog would take a speculative turn (read "stall") while I spent months on article links, linking pages to articles works! It only took me about ten hours of coding and research to learn to use the XML parser, write the article and link schema, process typed transcriptions into a canonical XML form with appropriate … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Article Links