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Tracking enhancements to OPAProd
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Source field for user contributions #87

Open DominicBM opened 9 years ago

DominicBM commented 9 years ago

This is something I've been thinking about when it comes to determining how best to ingest user contributions from external crowdsourcing platforms. I think the principle of attributing authors is important, but how can we do this when it comes to a Flickr tag or a Wikisource transcription? Could we add functionality for attributing a contribution to an external source, rather than the user account adding it?

If yes, the next question is how to do so without confusing the UI. Maybe it's only an API action, or only for power users?

mereastew commented 9 years ago

I was thinking for this that for those that come from external sources, without individual authors, we should have a standard name for each source. Because the flickr stuff won't be linked, it would be more of a import of all of them, so pretty static. @Dominic-MP --Are you thinking these will be static, or more dynamic? I guess the other example is the categories from Wikipedia.

DominicBM commented 9 years ago

I think it depends on what we want, but I was envisioning, at least an additional optional field for each contribution where you could specify attribution if it is different from the OPA user account. Right now each contribution (when you hover/look at the data in API) just has a user account and timestamp attached, but I could imagine where the hover also shows "Flickr user 'mereastew'" if that was input. But it could also be possible to have both a name and URL for the citation, so that I could actually import it giving attribution to "mereastew" and link to flickr.com/mereastew (or the specific source tag).