Filter projects & person by OER activity fields

[trugwaldsaenger]

As a member of the OER community I want to filter the world map data (especially projects and experts) by special OER activity fields.

Acceptance criteria:

• includes a special set of categories, which describe fields of activies within the oer movement

[trugwaldsaenger]

An initial version of cathegories which describe special fields of activity within the OER area can be found here: http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/opportunities

[trugwaldsaenger]

See also #13

[buschfeld]

Please see enclosed screen layout study showing

• proposals of filter UI applied to the map view
• proposals of filter UI applied to the result list
• statistic data and cross-links icons in tooltip layers on map
• variations of how to avoid pin clusters by adding numbers in large-scaled map views

I need to add that design draft includes the visualization of alternatives, added for internal discussions among the developing team. These alternatives include

• position and color of tooltip areas
• typography and style of cluster-pins
• position and style of icons (taken from the public source fontawesome library)
• color scheme of checkbox and close icon-areas
• last, not least – the two already known color systems:
  a) orange = hovered/currently presented + b) dark blue = pure/not selected display

Note: This layout draft also applies to following issues:
#163, #160, #140, #40, #41, #42, #43, #34, #31

[trugwaldsaenger]

I still believe that including the "fields of activity" would be very helpful for searching. It could be also used for browsing by showing related entries.
example: When looking at a project, which aims at content production, we could display "similar projects" which are also aiming at content production.

[literarymachine]

Yes, this makes sense. We would need those fields as a (SKOS) classification then. Or does this already exist and I missed it?

[acka47]

We would need those fields as a (SKOS) classification then. Or does this already exist and I missed it?

This doesn't exist yet. If this is needed and http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/opportunities is mature, I will make a ticket ad https://github.com/hbz/vocabs-edu and start working on it asap.

[trugwaldsaenger]

I will provide a final version of the classification ASAP!

[acka47]

To do:

I will make a ticket ad https://github.com/hbz/vocabs-edu and start working on it asap.

[trugwaldsaenger]

One of the lessons learned from the OER Atlas was that our categories (http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/opportunities) are pretty good, but that simply choosing one or several of them did not work fine. I guess we need a more sophisticated mechanism here. One solution would be to add values (e.g. from 1-3 or 1-5) for every category. This would provide us with a possibility to make pretty good profiles of the projects. The input also could be visualized as a radar chart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart). I guess this should enable us to identify similar projects very easy.

[trugwaldsaenger]

Here comes an example of an radar chart which I based on the fields of activity categories:

[literarymachine]

Here comes an example of an radar chart which I based on the fields of activity categories:

While I understand the categories, I don't yet understand where the values for the numerical scale will come from.

[trugwaldsaenger]

This has to be entered manually via according templates. For each category it should be possible to select a value, eg. 0-9 or 0-3.

[literarymachine]

This has to be entered manually via according templates.

I see! This is definitely a new requirement and will make things more elaborate as we cannot simply reuse the same template elements we already have. Also, this will require some data modeling, pinging @acka47.

[literarymachine]

Sorry, I think I mixed this up with #686. I guess we will not need numeric values there, right?

[acka47]

Sorry, I think I mixed this up with #686. I guess we will not need numeric values there, right?

Yes. No numerical values for #686 but for this story (#144).

[acka47]

Next step: Add a field in the schema to type Person so that it can be implemented in the world map.