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Goals and Timelines for Sakaibrary Subject Research Guides
Goals
In order of priority:
- Develop a working prototype for Subject Research Guide authoring and delivery that can be used to demonstrate the functionality of the SRG to potential funders. While built as a Sakai tool using the RSF application framework, the most important thing is to have a workable interface rather than to implement based on the final desired architecture.
- In parallel with the work towards goal 1, develop a basic architectural framework for full implementation of Subject Research Guides, to be implemented with additional funding.
- Identify, contact, and track work of other efforts within Sakai that have common needs (for example, common needs for dynamic forms-based data entry capabilities across Sakaibrary and OSP), for future cooperation given additional funding.
Timeline
January 17: Basic UI designs in XHTML are complete. Technical design and implementation begins.
February 29: Initial version of authoring interface prototype that people can interact with is complete; has basic editing framework, possibly a few simple data types.
March 1-14: Basic functional testing, QA, etc. Feedback compiled and priorities established for further development.
May 16: Second development iteration complete, including support for more data types.
May 17 - June 30: Testing, QA, and documenting work.
Core data types for prototype
- Title/metadata for research guide
- Entry of arbitrary HTML/rich text
- Link to arbitrary URL
- Attachments (including audio file)
- Citation lists
Additional data types, as time permits
- Searchable database links
- Canned/constrained search link s
- Citations
- Citation collections?
- RSS feeds
- Comments
