LTGPublicWiki: Diff for "Frockle"

Introduction

Welcome to the Frockle project wiki. Our intention is to have the main project web-site hosted here. Until we have that up and running, this site will probably act as a temporary location for information we intend to move to that location before too long.

Links

• Main project web-site.

• Group project blog.

• A running demo of our work incorporated into an instance of WebLearn.

• Alexis's Frockle related bookmarks on del.icio.us.

• Source code is stored under version control using subversion here.

Other content in the Frockle wiki

• /PeerReview - peer-review exercise with meeting in Bolton on 25th April 2007.

• /PeerReview2 - peer-review exercise (via tele-conference on 13th June 2007).

• /ToDoList - List of stuff to do!

• /ToolkitEnhancementRequirements

• /ProjectBackground - where the name came from, etc.

• /FinalReport (also in PDF)

Initial User Requirements

• Facility to create/edit/delete user profile in VLE (in user's personal area).
• Profile should include details of research interests, and publication list.
• Default is a simple profile, advanced profile with additional fields available.
• Ability to make profile public, or keep it private?
• Locate and view public profiles of known people, by searching/browsing using person's name.
• Locate people with similar or related research interests.
• Link to others to create personal networks. (Differentiate between two-way and one-way linking.)
• Require user to accept linking set up by a 'friend'?
• Navigate personal networks, preferably visually.
• Multi-level networks (e.g separate personal and work related networks).
• Add links to resources (in VLE) to personal networks.
• Share profile details with other systems or make same profile available in other systems (e.g. PDP).
• User's XML FOAF profile should be available for FOAF discovery applications.

Possible WebLearn implementation

• Profile to be displayed/edited in user's personal MyWebLearn area. /EditProfileScreenshot

• Left hand frame in frameset modified to show profile snippet (and optional photo).
• Right hand frame provides interface to:
  • create/edit profile
  • display complete profile
  • display visual FOAF network

• Clicking on a person node in the network takes you to their MyWebLearn area (displays profile snippet on left).

• People's research interests are represented as a different node type in the visual display?
• Clicking on research interest node displays users with that interest (i.e not friend network.)
• Modified version of current search facility used to provide search interface for users personal spaces.

Technical Requirements

• Code should be usable in multiple systems (e.g. Bodington and Sakai).
• Data shouldn't be in existing VLE database.
• Code should support using Postgres database.
• Increasing load on VLE server should be limited as much as possible.
• Application should be reliable, usable with different browsers with varying configurations.

• Ideally fit in with existing functionality in VLE, e.g. MyWebLearn personal spaces, keyword tagging and searching.