Road map

Long Term Road-Map for Cube-Creator

The Cube-Creators goal is to provide a tool where the data provider can augment data to a point that it is possible to programmatically consume the data and build correct and (to the biggest extend) valid graphics.

Overall

• Introduction of Group and Role based User Management.
  • Maintainer Role: Can adapt the cube content, metadata and publish the cube as Draft.
  • Publisher Role: Can publish the cube, officially.
  • Specialist Role: (Shared Dimensions, Hierarchies)
  • Closed Groups for Edit rights on organisations Cube.
• Certification of Cubes
  • Person in charge can electronically sign the validity of the cube.

Input / Mapping

• Smart recognition of inputs.
  • Try to understand the datatype and/or language of the input fields to pre-select.
• Ad-Hoc Transformations on CSV Mapping
  • Allow the transformation of other calendar dates to the necessary ISO-Dates.

Designer

• Annotations and Corrections

  • Possibility to Correct faulty values from the source (a patch which will be reapplied with future datasets)
  • Annotations on the level of a Cube, a Dimension, a Combination of Dimensions, an Observation, a Value.
    • Remarks
    • Upper- / Lower Limits

• Discovery of metadata (ScaleOfMeasure, DataKind).

• Automated recommendation of a shared dimension. (After first transformation.)

• Automated mapping to a shared dimensions, by recognising the content.

• Providing hints / previews of what graphics will be possible based on the proposed metadata.

• To check the cube, show filters, based on the metadata. (Sliders for continious data.)

• Calculating Aggregates based on input data.

• Creating new cubes based on input data. (Using Aggregates.)

Publishing

• Automated load of data from a location and publishing in a regular time intervall.
• Timed publications. (e.g. Set to an official publication date.)

Shared Dimensions

• Interface to allow a Remix of Dimensions into new Dimensions.