A researcher can use an intuitive interface to discover annotations and other content by annotations

[MegaKeegMan]

Especially in regard to analytics they are interested in

Meeting notes:

People click on Analyze and immediately they don't know what they are looking at. (the list)

Then click into one, and it might be empty.

We have multiple pages for representing all of this, and if we can reduce this down.

Some of our new users see the page, and feel it is too complicated, the whole platform

You have an artifact. You have a set of questions you want to answer on that artifact.

For a new user that doesn't see all the steps that happened

Historically, anthropologists work disaster by disaster. How do we get to the point of thinking more broadly?

Want people to see the big-picture questions, and then see the answers for different artifacts.

Trying to get out of viewing per artifact and seeing it in a cross-cutting way.

I personally have hated the navigation bars (Home, About, Collaborate, Analyze, Discover) — really want Search to take over the Discover page. But other people have different opinions on the bar.

[mikefortun]

so if you click the analyze button on the front page (more on that logic in a second) you get this long list of every question set that been created by all users:

etc. etc. no one really analyzes an artifact on the platform going in this way, but we still very much want a page like this to signify: questions are as important as data. on PECE we don't produce knowledge through coding -- "this means (codes for) that" but to say that "When you ask this set of questions, this user thinks this means that, and this other user thinks this means this,that, and the other thing, while this user etc. etc. " Another way of saying this: we believe the means of analysis should always be open to further analysis. Questions are contributions to scholarship and should be "credited" as essential to knowledge production. The question you ask shapes the data you create and shapes the way that data can be made meaningful in a variety of ways

[mikefortun]

there's a list of annotations a user has created on their dashboard:

[mikefortun]

a user would start at the artifact (or essay) level and clicking the annotate button:

below the artfifact is a list of users who have annotated it. The way this appears should be changed in some way, somewthing as simple as a title bar "RECENT ANNOTATIONS BY USERS" or something else. might be nice if, when you clicked on the name or whatever the annotations pops up in a lightbox kind of thing? but that may be too much or too difficult, just something to think about.

[mikefortun]

heres where iit starts getting crazy. So I've clicked annotate and i see a drop down arrow that calls up that whole long-as-fuck list of analytics (question sets). there's gotta be a better way but not sure what that could be:

maybe you would see the five most recent analytics used on the platform and then a "more..." link? maybe a search bar where you start typing "data..." and you are presented with the analytics that contain the word "data"?

[mikefortun]

that list becomes long-as-fuck because any user can create a new analytic. some maybe a lot of those just need to be cleaned up -- someone made one and didn't know what they were doing and just gave up, or used it once and no one else did so that's the first place people get frustrated. and then once you pick it just says you have to know to "continue":

[MegaKeegMan]

Thanks for elaborating on these pain points

[mikefortun]

although you do need the option to back up and cancel and pick again, so I guess that screens not totally useless. But then things get confusing again:

you see one question, and you need to know to click the drop down arrow again way off on the right. when you do that it gets confusing again: the list of questions (and an option for anyone to add another question) may not be long-as-fuck but its getting to that territory:

but that list is more important to see and that might should stay the same: "here's some possible questions, take your time and think if one of these was what you had vaguely in mind when you were hit by the need to annotate and say something, and if none of them really spark anything well then ask your own damn question..."
but another use case is with students, where you tell them to respond to these three questions, or just one or all of them

[mikefortun]

if this is helpful I can continue but I just need to stop right now...