Scratchpad development planning 2011-2-15

Present:

 * Edward Baker
 * Simon Rycroft
 * Ben Scott

Taxonomy

 * One generic keywords taxonomy
 * Keep taxonomies for keywords / classifications - keep fields (such as image technique) in the field API.

Node references

 * Any node can be linked to another node. Need to map exactly what relationships are permitted to help make the UI easy to use.
 * Investigate what modules do this already
 * Can this work for the character project?
 * Have one module for formatting all references

Multiple image uploads

 * plupload integrates with media module
 * Predefine fields prior to bulk upload (suggested by Irina after the meeting)

Maps

 * Investigate options
 * Identify every place geo data will be used - have just one map for the whole UI.

iSpecies

 * Use panels?
 * Use blocks and create a module which exposes a drag / drop UI for blocks.
 * Can data sources be filtered?
 * Check how many sites have used filtering
 * What other data sources are available?
 * Can we provide better sources of data? Use machine tags on flickr, associated a flickr account with a scratchpad.
 * Do we need to allow users to change the width & height?
 * Ideally, provide minimal options to user & data that isn't rubbish (cartoon characters etc.,)
 * External widgets need to be added to the iSpecies page (not turned on by default)?

Views

 * Need a nice UI for building views (call them reports?)

Groups

 * Investigate alternatives
 * Can we use entities?
 * How do people use groups?

Taxonomy tree

 * TUI, Taxonomy tree & tinytax need to be merged into one, unified tree UI.
 * Could be used in the side bar (navigation) as well as forms.

Search

 * One search box (like on drupal.org)
 * Remove tax tab (Not quite sure what this mean's but it's in my notes).
 * Use lucene / solr