Metadata Tracking

[jreades]

What metadata do we need to track about each notebook?

1. How long each section should take
2. Difficulty level
3. Authorship
4. Git status

Ideas from software carpentry web site?

[jreades]

Duration for each section is a little harder than for the notebook as a whole since it needs to be embedded in each block somehow -- at what level would you really want to track this? I figure nothing below h1 level anyway, but there's a question then as to whether the format of a table is really appropriate.

[jreades]

Provisionally settled on a list format:

• Key: Value
• Key: Value1; Value2
• Key: Value
• Key: Value1; Value2; Value3

This is easy to write and fairly flexible. It has to be in the first cell and the assumption is that the first cell only contains metadata and the name of the Atom.

[jreades]

Need to track license & append to footer.

A little RGS logo would be nice too during the start-up phase. Later can just go on the homepage.

[jreades]

Allow someone to specify duration (in hh:mm) for any section/subsection that starts a markdown cell. So you could have it for h1 through h5 levels but we'll only look for metadata in an unordered list immediately after a section heading that starts a new markdown cell.