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Requested Features Index

This is a list of suggestions for future Connotea developments, requested by Connotea users. If you have any suggestions or requests, please feel free to add them to this list. You can, of course, also email us direct at connotea@nature.com. Please use these request pages as a way of fleshing out the consensus on how a particular requested feature should work -- that way we have to make fewer assumptions when implementing it.

Each feature request is mentioned briefly below on this index page, then set up as a separate wiki page to avoid cluttering this page with too much text. The separate page for each feature request may contain explanations, examples, comments and discussion -- anything to help with fleshing out the request. Feel free to revise any feature request to capture the consensus of any attached discussion. Please follow the RequestPostingInstructions when you add or modify a feature request.

On this index page the requested features are grouped by the principal entity affected by the feature. The requests are organised in two sections. The first deals with the entities that are the heart of Connotea as a software system for managing bookmarks (e.g. bookmarks, tags, user interface, data interface). The second section deals with the rest of Connotea as a place and a community (e.g. the web site, the wiki pages, promotion of Connotea).

These request pages can be bookmarked in Connotea, so if you don't like the way we have organised them you can reorganise them with your own tags. See the RequestedFeatures bookmark collection for an example.

If you have a feature request or question of a wider-ranging nature that does not fit well in any specific category here, or covers multiple categories, it may be better to post it direct to the Connotea discussions mailing list. See the Contact Us page to find out more about the discussion list.

BOOKMARKING SYSTEM REQUESTS (Focused on Connotea as a software system for managing bookmarks)

Bookmark (Focused on the allowable content of a single bookmark and management of single bookmarks)

  • Save resources with more than one URL RequestBookmarkMultiURL
  • Save offline or print-only resources (i.e. resources with no URL) RequestBookmarkNoURL
  • Allow private comments on a public bookmark RequestBookmarkPrivateComments
  • Allow users to rate articles using stars or similar system RequestBookmarkRatings
  • Subscribe to other users' bookmarks within Connotea, similar to the del.icio.us inbox feature RequestBookmarkSubscribeToUser
  • Allow users to flag links as either restricted access or open access? RequestBookmarkURLAccessibilityStatus
  • Exclude my own bookmarks from a query RequestBookmarkExcludeMyself
  • Add fields for article abstract RequestArticleAbstract
  • Make the size of the description field unlimited and make it HTML-friendly (or integrate a WYSIWYG editor into Connotea for writing descriptions and abstracts) RequestLargerDescFieldWithHTML
  • Allow Connotea to store links to related pages or bookmarks for each bookmark RequestRelatedLinks
  • Allow users to decide what should be syndicated in the RSS feeds -- right now the authors field is omitted in the RSS feeds for bookmarks RequestCustomizedRSS
  • Allow the creation of a separate page dedicated to each bookmark, where the abstract, private PDF file, Amazon Web API info if applicable, related attachments, notes, quotations, related links and so forth may be displayed in one place, such as in the PHP-based open-source bookmark manager Basilic. A space to host user generated content (such as journal club presentation slides), etc. RequestDedicatedBookmarkPage
  • Slideshow of Figures and Tables, automated when possible, curatable when necessary, so that a Connotea page can come to resemble a presentation of the paper. Or at least the option to associate a single figure as an incon with the bookmark. RequestFigureSlideshow?
  • Generation of formatted bibliographies based on the style chosen by the user (Harvard, Vancouver, APA, MLA, etc.), as well as the ability to generate a printer-friendly document or PDF file from one's entire library and/or bookmark sets. RequestFormattingPrinting
  • Add a "Resolve Again" button in the "Edit" bookmark page. RequestResolveAgain
  • 'RSS Reader' module: For a RSS feed, parse the entries, re-use the existing interface for retrieving data from a page like PubMed by applying it on the RSS feed to generate data for each entry. For the selections made, add it to the library.

Bookmark sets (Focused on the representation and manipulation of sets of bookmarks)

Resources (Focused on the items referred to by the bookmarks - usually papers, also web pages, possibly anything)

Tag (Focused on the allowable content of a tag and management of tags)

Tag sets

  • Do we need a category for sets of tags as distinct from individual tags?

Feeds (Focused on the RSS feeds generated from Connotea tags)

User (Focused on the allowable content of a user record and management of user records)

= User sets ==
Do we need a category for sets of users as distinct from individual users? Would a user set be the same thing as a group?

Group (Focused on the allowable content of a group record and management of groups)

  • Allow more blog-like groups, so that only things specifically posted to the group appear there RequestGroupBlog
  • Invite users to groups via e-mail, rather than searching for users to add RequestGroupInvite

User interfaces (Focused on how the information is presented to an interactive user and how the user controls Connotea)

Data interfaces (Focused on the content and format of data that goes in and out of Connotea - other than direct user interaction)

Program interfaces (Focused on the programmatic interface exposed by Connotea)

CONNOTEA COMMUNITY REQUESTS (Focused on Connotea as a place and a community)

Community pages (Focused on the Connotea wiki)

Connotea web site (Focused on the Connotea web site exclusive of the Community Pages and User Interface -- e.g. home page, site guide, FAQ)

Promotion (Focused on features for promoting the use of Connotea)

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