Alice Armintor Walker responded offline to my post on sensitive tags, asking: Do you think you might want to allow sensitive text access to some viewers, but not unregistered users? An archivist might feel better about limiting access to a specific group of people. That's an interesting point, and thanks for the question! My thought on that had been something like this: There … [Read more...] about Questions on Access to Sensitive Text
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Feature: Sensitive Tags
Sensitive tags allow passsages within a transcription to be removed from public view — visible to scribes and work owners, but suppressed in printouts or display to viewers. Why on earth is this desirable? At some level, collaborative software is about persuasion. If the mid-term goal of this project is to get the people with old letters and diaries stashed in their filing … [Read more...] about Feature: Sensitive Tags
Feature: User Roles
I've moved into what is probably the least glamorous phase of development: security, permissions, and user management. There are four (or five) different roles in FromThePage, with some areas of ambiguity regarding what those users are allowed to do. Admins are the rulers of a software installation. There are only a few of them per site, and in a hosted environment, they … [Read more...] about Feature: User Roles
Progress Report: Work and Page Administration
As I said earlier, I've been making really good progress writing the kinds of administrative features that Rails excels at. Despite my digression to implement zoom, in the last two weeks I've added code for: Converting a set of titled images into a work composed of pages Creating a new, blank work Editing title and description information about a work Deleting a work … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Work and Page Administration
Progress Report: Zoom
Zoom is done! It took me about a week of intense development, which translates to perhaps 8-10 hours of full-time work. Most of that was spent trying to figure out why prototype.js's Ajax.Request wasn't executing RJS commands sent back to it. For the past year, I've been concentrating on automating the process of converting two directories of 180ish hastily-taken images into … [Read more...] about Progress Report: Zoom