remake of cdli tablet
There are three challenges in this issue
- the remake of the cdli tablet app in flutter for android and apple devices
- prepare web admin interface for the data entry and management inside our PHP framework
- (bonus) viewing of the entries on web with the same functionalities similar to the app
RK Englund: I consider the feel of cdli tablet to be very good, created three years after launch of it godfather Guardian eyewitness in 2010.
Prashant has up at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtvmCHTrqUWWi1rN3lhcXQ5bmc/view a video of the functionality of the app with the limited screen size of an Android phone, and I haven’t looked at that version, or the one for Android tablets, for quite some time. But developer should be looking at all four devices (and forgive me, Surface is another matter altogether?).
The core tenet of the app is simplicity in view, and in development tools and standards. It should be visually impactful, and should speak to curious informal learners, while not pandering to pc, clichéd, or forced “just like nowadays" representations of cuneiform themes. There seems to be very little under-the-surface humor or irony in our pages currently.
The app should also remain simple enough and open source to allow quick repurposing for other disciplines with high-impact visual resources, for instance Egyptology, classical studies, ethnography, even art history etc.: fill in slots, follow instructions, apply to app/Google store (?), go. But then on the copyright side, there should be something that uploading editors click on confirming in effect that to the best of their knowledge, there are no outstanding copyright claims to employed image files.
admin web interface improvements
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editor finishes working on a day entry, saves work, but web page returns him always to the top of the list of entries, and he must scroll the whole way down or do a text search to locate his correction spot
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in recycling, let us remember to leave a sufficient number of viewed day entries to make the app interesting for new users, and that it offers a good number of targets for Google search harvester. I would say, 180 days should remain in viewed track.
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https://cdli.ucla.edu/cdlitablet_workspace/user carries most of the editor functionality that I think is necessary, but with still some major weaknesses for editors who want to move blocks or dated entries into different positions in line for view, or from main track to side track and vice versa. The concept is of train on tracks, so that editor can move dated entries from main track (and active or in line for view in mobile app) to side track as storage of technically correct pages, but pages of questionable quality, or just such in development.
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something at editor level to flag non-expert entries without denigrating creators; for UCLA undergrad entries, I just added a gay flag to the image.
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allow editor to search and replace across multiple day entries—this came up when we wanted to change all instances of “credit: kw” to “credit: Klaus Wagensonner” in the respective credit field. If possible make this reversible.
app improvements
- the image wanders up and down on iPad after initial load and tapping on monitor for less/more text—that is a bug that has annoyed me since initial launch of iPad version
- Android users have noted that we should make it easier to tap on the 'more' and 'less’ buttons
- review any problems with the distinctive color frames of thumbnails to indicate themes, and make the thumbnails more calendar-like (indeed, for me ideal is the feel of Mac calendar running in IOS
Related issues : https://gitlab.com/cdli/framework/issues?label_name%5B%5D=cdli-tablet