[iaoa-education] IAOA Education Committee Meeting n.27 on Tue, Mar 06, 2018: announcement

[rrovetto at buffalo.edu]

My initial two-cents, where I have them, are deposited inline below...

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Todd Schneider <tjschneider at covad.net>
wrote:

> Gang,
>
> Some questions and possible refinements to the requirements:
>
> 0) Are these requirements for a Wiki for the Education committee, just the
> term list, or all of IAOA?
> 1) Access Control:  Does 'anyone' really mean anyone? Or is it restricted
> to IAOA members?
>

At the most inclusive level *anyone = *ontology-interested persons.
At the most limited level, *anyone* = an EduCom member responsible for wiki
updates.
At a less limited level *anyone *= EduCom members.
So an intermediate level *anyone *= be IAOA


> 2) Auditing: Does there need to be an audit trail that identifies the user
> and date-time when changes were made?
>

This might depend on (1). My initial thought, though, is no, not for this.


> 3) Uploading: Adding images to pages?
>

Perhaps ontology, graph diagram; examples of things; etc.


> 4) Commenting: Commenting on what? Does this include attachments/links?
> 5) Branding: Who's brand?
>

Branding of IAOA?
If so, then developing associating imagery and content unique to the EduCom
and IAOA? It already has the IAOA red circles logo.
I'm currently a volunteer webmaster of a website in the emergency
management community; and do web content management for a couple of sites
of applied ontologies.
I've grown the audience of the former by speaking with other sites in the
same community and engaged in social media for it.
So these two aspects might help with branding or increasing exposure.


> 6) IAOA Linking: Is this Wiki to be accessible from an IAOA page?
>
> My initial thought would be yes.


> Todd
>
>
> On 3/6/18 9:01 AM, Maria Keet wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I've copied below the draft Wiki migration requirements and
>> considerations. For the meeting later today: in using the current wiki, do
>> you perceive the need for more features (first list of items)?
>>
>> ----
>> Requirements:
>> - anyone can edit
>> - to prevent hacks, with a password
>> - least effort in migration. It currently uses PMWiki, so a ‘copy’ would
>> be fastest (note: PMWiki does not offer user management, i.e., anon edits
>> only, and is not a semantic wiki).
>> - adding pictures or files within the same wiki-world would be useful
>> - there has been mention of the possibility of adding comments, alike a
>> forum capability. PMWiki does not offer this features
>> - some branding with the url, i.e., not in a ‘corner’ of the Web
>> - display IAOA logo (or our own)
>> - A bibliography feature?
>> - perhaps with user names rather than anonymous as it is now?
>> - any other requirements or wishes?
>>
>> Regarding alternatives:
>>
>> If other wiki software, in case the other features are now deemed needed
>> and those wikis have them:
>> - downside is that then need to manually recreate  contents (copy-paste,
>> edit for syntax).
>>
>> If Semantic wiki: in theory good, but note
>> - who has experience in practice to actually get the semantics in?
>> - what sort of queries/dynamic content would be ‘interesting’ for a
>> visitor? If hardly any, than what’s the point? If so: please provide
>> examples of possible good use of semantic wiki features.
>> - pro: walking the walk…
>>
>> If blogging software, such as migrating to wordpress:
>> - more cumbersome to edit than a wiki
>> - more cumbersome to create user logins, so increases the hurdle for
>> people to contribute
>> - WP at least isn’t good for managing (very) many pages (but we’ll have a
>> lot if each term gets its own page)
>> - need to manually recreate  contents (copy-paste, edit for syntax and
>> layout)
>> - pro: may be easier to integrate with the iaoa website?
>> ----
>>
>> Regards,
>> Maria
>>
>>
>
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