| Hi all. This seems as elegant a collaborative platform as any (he says, idly hoping it will actually be useful). Right now it seems like a good place to do some BrainStorming, if we'd rather not just eye each others' blogs and chat on either side of lecture for now. I'd like to formalize some of my ideas somewhat somewhat soon—if and when that happens I'll crosspost them here. Formatting guidelines are at WikiStyle. Go Team Venture! |
Team Estrogen's COGS121 Wiki
This workspace is for exploration and elaboration of ideas pertinent to development of an elegant web-based system. We are students in Jim Hollan's Human Computer Interaction Programming class, an alpha-level experiment in teaching budding cognitive scientists systemic precepts of Web 2.0.
We are, in short, cowgirls on the digital frontier.
Our Proposal
We are developing a system for quick, short-term storage of web elements. The velocity of modern living often precludes extended sessions online, and neccessitates efficient, ad-hoc systems for storing and sharing simple data, e.g. websites to be read; links/images/notes for short-term projects; quotes or links to share with unavailable friends. Some systems exist that accommodate these goals, but only incidentally to their intended tasks: del.icio.us is intended for longer-term recording of links, and uses folksonomic organization to find related and popular sites; Backpack is a multi-modal system for recording data elements, with an emphasis towards time management and collaborative organization. Our system will use Javascript bookmarklets to trivialize recording in situ, and define records as draggable AJAX elements to make loose, hiearchical (or associative), on-site organization natural and adaptable.
This project can be divided into three relatively parallel tasks:
1) Contextual bookmarklets to parse plain text, hyperlinks, and/or image links from the wild to our system.
2) AJAX-driven interface for presentation of user-stored data. Simple, high-level model-world systems for sorting and modification of data elements.
3) Database for userdata storage.
And meta-bullets:
1) Defining public/private, individual/collaborative spaces user spaces, and systems for transitioning resources between spaces.
2) A strong, cohesive visual and philosophical identity.
3) Uniformity and generalizability of backend coding; development of a public API and simple extensions for outward presentation models (badges, RSS feed).
4) Metadata synthesis.
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