FROM MITCH, FEBRUARY 25, 2007



The bigger this project grows, the more we are going to need some design and
technical help and some decent content management tools, and I am hoping
somewhere out there can help me figure out what we should do and can
volunteer to help do it.

These are our technical challenges


 1. Style
 ....A. Consistent Style Sheets
 ....B. Global Design/Backgrounds

 2. Dynamic Topic Pages
 ....A. Right now, we are using Google to implement basic search
functionality.
     http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/ScarletLetterArchives/Admin/search.shtml
....B. Eventually, we would like to dynamically create "Topic Pages".
....C.. We already have Topics on the site like "Noam Chomsky"
        (author), "Paul Avrich" (author), "Anti-Nuclear Movement"
(subject), "Lydia Lunch" (subject)
....D. Once we have implemented a good database layer, we can
        use it to dynamically generate a Topic Page with all the
articles about "Paul Avrich"
.....E. It would be nice to have some sort of Select box that
        would enable someone to search for "Ammon Hennacy" and create a
Topic Page that looks something like this:
        http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/ScarletLetterArchives/Admin/AmmonHennacyMockup.html

3. Topic Page Structure
....A. Title
....B. Main Picture
....C. Biography / History
....D. Locally Stored Articles
........1. HTML version
http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/ScarletLetterArchives/BlackRose/BR1/FromTheEditor.htm
........2. PageImages
        http://www.flickr.com/photos/17984487@N00/sets/72157594495278174/

........3. PDFs (to be discontinued)
        http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/ScarletLetterArchives/BlackRose/BR1/BlackRose1.pdf


....E. Externally Stored articles
........1.
    http://www.anarchyisorder.org/CD%234/TXT-versions/Bakoenin,%20Michael%20-%20God%20and%20the%20state.txt
....F. Link to Photos
........1.
        http://www.flickr.com/photos/17984487@N00/sets/72157594451979302/

4. Indexing.
....A. We have several vectors of indexing
........1. Thematic (Subject, Author, Title, Keywords, etc.)
........2. Bliographic (Publisher, Date, Location, Language,etc.)
....B. Example:

     http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/ScarletLetterArchives/MAN/SolutionProblems/Anarchism.htm

........1. Article has the Title "Anarchism", Author "Ammon
        Hennacy", Subject "Anarchism"
........2. Article is written in English and was published in
_Anarchism: The Solution to Man's Problems_ (Man Publications, California:
1940)
........3. Index Objects, not HTML Pages
....C. Indexes will need to categorize Objects, not HTML
        files.  An object will contain the HTML for articles as well as
PageImages and perhaps other data.

5. Searching
....A. The user interface can and should be simple.
....B. As stated above, we need to input both thematic and
     bibliographic information as search criteria.
....C. As stated above, we need to output a complex set of
     information as a search result.

6. Workflow Management
....A. It would be best to contain workflow information within the
     database ("EditedBy Camden Tadgh").
....B. We should timestamp this information ("LastModified 01142007)
....C. We need to keep repositories of old versions in case we need
     to revert to it.

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