CROWD Literature - Omnibus Reading Tour 2016

A geographical event calendar with author profiles for the Omnibus Reading Tour.
A DeepaMehta 4 plugin.
Content authoring is done via the DeepaMehta Webclient.

Public installation:
http://crowdlitbus.eu/

About the Omnibus Reading Tour:
http://crowd-literature.eu/omnibus-2/

DeepaMehta 4 is a platform for collaboration and knowledge management:
https://github.com/jri/deepamehta

Running locally

After installation go to:
http://localhost:8080/eu.crowd-literature/

Development

For a save-reload turnaround start the frontend directly from the DeepaMehta file repository:

http://localhost:8080/filerepo/dm4-crowd-literature/src/main/resources/web/

Now, when you edit any client-side resource (Javascript, HTML, CSS, ...) save it and press reload in the browser. Your changes will appear immediately. No building required.

3 requirements for this to work:

• The jri/dm4-crowd-literature git repo is cloned inside DM's modules-external directory.

• In DM's pom.xml the file repo is configured this way:

  <dm4.filerepo.path>${project.basedir}/modules-external</dm4.filerepo.path>

• In CROWD's src/main/resources/web/index.html comment this line:

  <base href="/eu.crowd-literature/">

Version History

0.6.3 -- Sep 3, 2016

• Fixes:
  • Render detail pages with undefined event lists
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8.3

0.6.2 -- Sep 1, 2016

• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8.3

0.6.1 -- Aug 31, 2016

• Map:
  • All-english names
  • Tour course updated
  • Optional initial center/zoom state for 2nd tour half
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8

0.6 -- May 19, 2016

Public launch

• Map:
  • English country names
  • Real bustour line string
  • Markers/clusters of events over are gray
  • Selected event marker is orange
  • Zoom with mouse wheel
• Start page content is user editable
• Site header for main navigation
• Info pages:
  • Event lists are sorted by From date/time
  • Captioned images have no margin
  • Event page: show Participants before Notes
• "powered by DeepaMehta" attribution
• Fixes:
  • No double vertical scrollbars
  • Fix hires (>=144dpi) display detection
  • Works behind a reverse proxy
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8

0.5 -- Mar 21, 2016

Webapp usability

• Web design by Zlata Pasalic
• Marker cluster rendering (by the help of Leaflet MarkerCluster plugin)
• Auto-scale images and videos
• Info pages:
  • Institution page: show events
  • Event page: show address along with institution link
  • Proper date/time formatting on all pages
  • New start page with CROWD logo and introduction text
• Mobile devices: on hi-res displays markers and clusters are slightly enlarged
• Spinning load indicator
• Fixes:
  • External links are working also if http:// was not entered
  • No map "flickering through" on page change when in portrait mode
• Technical: the webapp talks solely to its own /crowd endpoint; does not rely on /core anymore
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8-SNAPSHOT

0.4 -- Jan 19, 2016

First production version, updatable

• Work Involvement associations are typed automatically
• Info pages:
  • Work page: show institutions (publishers)
  • Event Series page: show events with dates
• Own public "CROWD" workspace
• Technical: uses DTOs for less requests and smaller transfer sizes
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8-SNAPSHOT

0.3 -- Dec 30, 2015

Data model consolidation

• Views: Work details page, Institution details page, Event Series details page
• Data model:
  • Person has "Gender", "Place of birth", "Nationality" (multi), and "Language" (multi)
  • Work has "Year of publication" and "Place of publication"
  • Work "Genre" is a multi field
  • Event has "Entrance Fee"
  • "Event Series" is new topic type
  • "Curator" is new work involvement role
• Own REST service
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8-SNAPSHOT

0.2 -- Dec 21, 2015

Technical basis

• Responsive web design: individual layouts for portrait/landscape orientation
• GeoJSON visualization of the bustour
• Clickable Event markers
• Event details page, Person details page, linked to each other
• Deep links
• Functional browser back/forward buttons
• Technical: Makes use of Angular-Leaflet directive
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8-SNAPSHOT

0.1 -- Dec 15, 2015

Project setup

• Data model: Work, Translation, Work Involvement
• Leaflet based map rendering with Mapbox imagery
• Depends on DeepaMehta 4.8-SNAPSHOT

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Jörg Richter
Sep 3, 2016