Martin Gustafsson wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to suggest a project that could be useful to a lot of > people, in a context that's a bit off from what web CMS:es usually are > for. I wasn't sure where to put a proposal like this, but since the > product is intended primarily for university employees, I figured this > is the most suitable of the Plone lists. If you think otherwise, please > let me know. > > What I have in mind is a Plone-based system for keeping scientific > notes. As a scientist, you need to keep a detailed log of what you do, > of the data you collect and the pictures you take. Today, everybody does > this on paper, simply because there is no good digital solution. Paper > logbooks are hard to search, you must keep several in parallell or > remember to always take one with you if you work in several labs, and > you can't easily go back and comment or modify previous notes. > Additionally, almost all measurement data is taken by computers these > days and pictures are taken digitally. Having pictures, data and notes > all in one place, searchable and categorizable, would be tremendously > useful. I have told some colleagues about the idea of setting up a > web-based note taking system, and they've all been very interested. If > nicely executed, a system like this could be adopted pretty widely, and > I think Plone would be an excellent platform to do it. > > The general characteristics of such a system would be: > 1) Fast adding and editing of content. A lab journal is more for writing > than for reading, as opposed to an intranet or a regular website. The > number of clicks required should be minimized, and this area that might > require some special adjustments. > 2) Views that show the full text of each note in a folder, filtered by > keywords and dates. > 3) Pre-defined Marshalling so that files can be uploaded in batch and > notes/data files be appended programmatically. > 4) Simple installation and most special features removed. No workflow, > events, news etc; everything set up for one-person use.
It might be useful to add digital notarisation of log book contents to make it easier to prove that work was done at particular times - see http://www.gnumed.net/gnotary/ for the general idea. Tim C _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
