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diff --git a/guide/src/roadmap.md b/guide/src/roadmap.md index 47e30192..41930256 100644 --- a/guide/src/roadmap.md +++ b/guide/src/roadmap.md @@ -1,16 +1,9 @@ # Roadmap -Core unimplemented features (as of February 2019) include: - -- rate-limiting and spam/abuse mitigation -- actual entity creation, editing, deleting through the web interface -- several web interface views (eg, editor-specific changelog, recent changes) -- "work aggolomeration", merging related releases under the same work -- linking known citations (we know DOI or PMID of "target", but haven't updated - reference to point to fatcat ident) - Contributions would be helpful to implement: +- spam/abuse mitigation +- "work aggolomeration" interfaces, for merging related releases under the same work - import (bulk and/or continuous updates) for more metadata sources - better handling of work/release distinction in, eg, search results and citation counting @@ -22,46 +15,24 @@ Contributions would be helpful to implement: Possible breaking API and schema changes: -- move all edit endpoints under `/editgroup/<editgroup_id>/...`, instead of - having an `editgroup_id` query parameter -- rename `release_status` to `release_stage` -- handle retractions/withdrawls with `widthdrawn` and `withdrawn_date` release - fields, and `retracted` status - new entity type for research institutions, to track author affiliation. Use the new (2019) ROR identifier/registry - container nesting, or some method to handle conferences (event vs. series) and other "series" or "group" containers -- include more author name metadata (display, sur, given) in contribs, and - potentially references. Need this to format citations properly (CSL) when we - don't have full author linkage Other longer term projects could include: -- full-text search over release files - bi-directional synchronization with other user-editable catalogs, such as Wikidata -- alternate/enhanced backend to store full edit history without overloading - traditional relational database -- make external identifiers generic, instead of having a fixed (indexed) list. - Eg, extid table for every entity rev, with string ("issn:1234-5678") or - structure ('{type: "issn", value: "1234-5678"}') -- URLs for entities. Have avoided so far, in lieu of external identifiers or - web captures -- "save paper now" feature in web interface - generic tagging of entities. Needs design/scoping; a separate service? editor-specific? tag by slugs, free-form text, or wikidata entities? "delicious for papers"?. Something as an alternative to traditional hierarchal categorization. -- first-class support for books: additional external identifiers, metadata - tweaks, bulk import of MARC or other metadata records, matching to DOAB and - other open-access book collections ## Known Issues - changelog index may have gaps due to PostgreSQL sequence and transaction roll-back behavior -- search is idiosyncratic: does not cover contrib names by default, and some - queries cause errors (eg, "N/A" without quotes) ## Unresolved Questions @@ -69,10 +40,6 @@ How to handle translations of, eg, titles and author names? To be clear, not translations of works (which are just separate releases), these are more like aliases or "originally known as". -Should external identifers be made generic? Eg, instead of having `arxiv_id` as -a column, have a table of arbitary identifers, with either an `extid_type` or -just use a prefix like `arxiv:someid`. - Should contributor/author affiliation and contact information be retained? It could be very useful for disambiguation, but we don't want to build a huge database for "marketing" and other spam. @@ -98,8 +65,3 @@ bibliographic database. On the other hand, accepting arbitrary data leads to other problems: sparseness increases (we have more "partial" data), potential for redundancy is high, humans will start editing content that might be bulk-replaced, etc. - -There might be a need to support "stub" references between entities. Eg, when -adding citations from PDF extraction, the cited works are likely to be -ambiguous. Could create "stub" works to be merged/resolved later, or could -leave the citation hanging. Same with authors, containers (journals), etc. |