Next Steps Questions - 12/9/18 (in progress)

[rutvimpatel]

Will we be having another conference anytime soon? Maybe we could present some prototypes and have transcribers run through how they might use things?

Search

• What is the ideal (and non-ideal) workflow?
• Do we want to search by Latin or Arabic? Both?
• Do we want to search by date?
• Do we want the database to be a separate application from the tool?
• How should a user establish relationships between poems? (Centrally-managed tags, user-defined groupings/families, etc.)
• Do we want user defined families? What might some families be?
• Can the user manipulate families?

Research

• How does a user publish / share their findings?
• What is the 'grouping' or 'tagging' workflow?
• Who is allowed to do research, and at what level?

Notes/Marginalia

• We'll need a list of tags/things we want to sort by
• Will that list need to be flexible?

General

• Are they starting from scratch each time? Or loading something up? and editing?
• Do we need the ability to work completely offline (For database purposes)?
• What is a "Collection" exactly and do we want to identify those in our tool?
• Will we want to expand this to other authors? Will search/metadata criteria be different for other poets?