HTML Specs:
1. Society and Publisher. other listings where the citations are grouped
under headings
2. Getting HTML formatting to work across all browsers (Dmitri)
3. Advanced search form (Dmitri and Tanya)
4. other ;) ... in other words, the amorphous stuff that we've brainstormed
on in past meetings

Database (David):
1. optimize for performance - indexes, etc
2. schema changes depending on new output specs
3. subject keywords might have problems
searching for SCIENCE in rtype=DB picks up 'Abstracts of Rand documents'
but adding 'documents' to query does not pick it up. and in HTML debug
comment in fact documents is not in there
4. rewrite scripts for fill eresources tables. esp. so that they can be
incrementally/partially updated

Programming (David):
1. clean it up, make it better
2. and obviously new spec changes will generate new programming tasks
3. break out more stuff into static templates for easier editing (Dmitri is
currently working on the results template)
4. find way to enhance templating systems so nested loops are possible

I asked Tanya about how to go about modeling interface and output screens
(wire-frame drawings and such)--for both purposes of development and
documentation. seems like good chance for gaining experience working with
such. Tanya has mentioned Visio and Rational Rose as possible power tools
for such work.
btw, i never got around to calling Popkins about extra license for John,
sorry...i think this is their number if maybe John wants to venture calling
them: 800 732-5227 ex 428. they have proven diffult to nail down for
support, but maybe for a new license the response will be more prompt.

see you all in september!
.david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Paul Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: David Arjanik
> Cc: Bob Wolven; Stephen Paul Davis
> Subject: New E-Resources prototype
>
>
> David:
>
> I just want to say thanks for the great work you (and Dmitri)
> have done on
> the eresources prototype over the last few weeks. This is an important
> development for all kinds of reasons, and will open new windows on
> Columbia's already extraordinary collections of current, published
> electronic resources.
> How we search, browse and present these resources -- and what value-added
> services we can now build on top of them -- will continue to evolve over
> time ... but this is really an excellent foundation.
>
> At this point (i.e., today), make sure to work only on Eresource changes
> you're confident can be put in place, tested and stabilized
> before the end
> of the day -- ok? After that it needs to be pretty much frozen until
> Sept., apart from HTML changes to the top-level static pages.
>
> Before you leave tomorrow, please try to write up a summary of tasks &
> issues that you consider to be outstanding / unresolved in terms
> of specs,
> programming, database schema & content, etc. OK?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> /Stephen

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