For conversation with larger group

[nichgray]

This is a working list of items to discuss with the larger group in the meeting the week of Aug. 5 (specific date TBD). Items should be organized by priority before the meeting.

• Do we want to base the manuscripts visualization on the number of documents or the number of locations? [TRY BOTH]
• What do we want the URL for the variorum and associated documents to be? (see #12) [SEE #91 ]
• Review designated (printed) variant categories (i.e. textual and graphical, binding and insertions, drifts/spatial).

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Also consider the variorum menu/table of contents. Should it stay in the Whitman wrapper or move into the variorum wrapper? [OKAY FOR NOW]

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What do we want in the bar at the top of the page? Right now it's menu and reviews. Add links to page viewer or comparison viewer? [OKAY FOR NOW]

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Agenda for this meeting:

1. Meeting to touch base while CDRH is still working on interface; will meet again (with Ed in attendance) after start of academic year to discuss detail changes, review decisions made here
2. Tour of new variorum (note in particular variations treatment, image comparison viewer)
3. URL structure of variorum [RESOLVED] recommended: whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/variorum/1855 (index page) whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/variorum/1855/introduction.html whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/variorum/1855/main.html whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/variorum/1855/reviews.html (&c) considerations:
   • other variorums?
   • do we want the word variorum in there at all? consider "enhanced" [NO-KEEP VARIORUM]
4. variorum menu: in Whitman wrapper or in variorum wrapper? [OKAY FOR NOW] considerations:
   • links out to Whitman wrapper items
   • copy page viewer vs. comparison viewer (one in Whitman wrapper; one not)
   • may be good to have a Whitman wrapper page available as link in variorum wrapper
5. variation categories: do these make sense (can think about this--easy to change)
   • do we want to include the spatial variations?
6. manuscripts visualization
   • base on number of associated lines or number of associated documents?
7. variorum wrapper [OKAY FOR NOW]
   • what to include in bar at top? (currently menu, main text, reviews, key)

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Other things to ponder, either at this meeting or a later one:

• should we include line numbers? [OKAY FOR NOW]
• should we include 1891 titles in manuscript relation boxes? Formatted how? (note difficulty of "Youth, Old Age...")
• should we have the key showing when the user lands on the page? [YES]
• treatment of Emerson letter [OKAY FOR NOW]
• use something different for mss location links? icon?

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Closing this ticket and migrating remaining "discuss" topics to #92 .