OpenWetWare:Software/Milestones/November 2007

Software Milestones for OpenWetWare.org for November, 2007

Committed Priority Items (ordered list)

• Lab Notebook Investigation
  • Details: Lab Notebooks
• Demo Word/Excel on Beta
  • deploy for test on beta.openwetware.org
  • break out both Excel and Word options
  • Details: Word Import
• Add Header To Selected Web Pages for Analytics
  • to promote OWW USer Survey
  • Details: Content Page Header
• Deploy Semantic MediaWiki on Beta
  • evaluation for use as a general ontology aggregation component
  • initially focus on Lab Notebook and Institute/Lab/Member relationships
  • Details: Semantic MediaWiki
• Disable extra RSS extensions
  • remove 3 (now) unsupported RSS extensions
  • document the remaining extension
  • integrate extension with OWW Main Page
  • integrate extension with Blogs Page
  • Details: RSS Extensions
• Fix user count bug
  • discrepancy with internal user count and UMS user/db count
  • fix is on production server
  • Details: User count bug
• MediaWiki 1.11
  • deploy on beta this month
  • deploy on oww as time permits
  • Details: MediaWiki 1.11

Research Items (ordered list)

• Auto Parsing of text to links
  • can we generally parse user content to connect entries to current OWW pages?
  • potentially extend current "magic Link" parsing
  • Details: Parsing-Tagging Content
• WYSIWYG
  • initially evaluate the FCKEditor/Mediawiki extension
  • Details: WYSIWYG Editing

Other items

• MySQL only supports > 3 character searches
  • MySQL requires a mod in the database to support 3 character searches.
  • search limit currently set to 4 (default)
  • using standard procedure to modify database to support 3 character searches
  • Details: MySQL 3 Character Searches

• Completed (or research milestone met) items are in Blue* *
• Not Completed (or research in progress/milestone not yet met) items are in Red

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