OpenWetWare:Software/Milestones/January 2008

Software Milestones for OpenWetWare.org for January, 2008

Committed Priority Items (ordered list)

• Lab Notebook and Semantic Wiki (SMW)
  • Details: Lab Notebooks and Semantic MediaWiki
  • evaluation for use as a general ontology aggregation component
  • lab notebook will tentatively use SMW
  • performance analysis testing is needed (will it slow down all of OWW?)
  • I need to submit a few bugfixes I had to make to developers

• MediaWiki 1.11
  • Details: MediaWiki 1.11
  • deploy on main system this month

• Non-MediaWiki Document Creation and Editing
  • Details: Word Import and FCKEDIT
  • deploy on beta this month
  • deploy on private wikis as time permits
  • concerns with Word doc import
    • Open to the community for limited test. Let the people decide.

Research Items

• GBrowse Integration
  • Install GBrowse (Gemome Browse) on OWW server
  • Design/Plan a way to use GBrowse from within OWW
  • beta deployment of integration later this month
  • Possible interaction with Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) clients/servers
  • Work with Tom Knight to determine how it will best work

• IGEM Support
  • Assess how IGEM can use OWW's infrastructure
  • Users, Labs, Institutions entity management

• Others (low priority)
  • email to wiki
  • cleanup of user name/email address relationships
  • possibly deploy Semantic Wiki forms for other apps
  • simplify adding new blogs
  • fix "add new private wiki" script
  • Biblio: test and deploy new version
  • evaluate "talk page" options including "Liquid Threads"

• • Bug fix to RSS
  • Feedback
  • Ty's wiki moved over
  • Broken links in blogs
  • Red Hat5

Extensions of Note

TBD