docnow / roadmap

A roadmap of development on the Documenting the Now project.

DocNow Roadmap

The following is a high-level quarterly roadmap of the second phase of the Documenting the Now project. It will get fleshed out over time as the work proceeds. If you have questions or comments please ask over in Slack or by adding an issue to the issue tracker here on GitHub. If you have a specific suggestion for the roadmap, you can also send us a draft pull request.

Our weekly development calls are mostly us catching up on Trello tickets in the last iteration. But we do have open calls the first Monday of every month at 2PM ET. The purpose of these calls is to socialize some of the things we are working on more widely and to hear from you in a less formal setting. Please contact [email protected] for more information on how to join these calls.

10/2018 - 12/2018

• Hiring and onboarding
• Shift and UVa subcontracts
• Establish meeting schedules and team collaboration spaces

01/2019 - 03/2019

• Tweet Viewer: A simple viewer for tweet id datasets collected with the DocNow application.
• Mukurtu Architecture/Installation: Setup and configure an instance of Mukurtu on Reclaim Hosting for use in activist community workshops.
• DocNow Infrastructure (Terraform): Easily provision and configure the DocNow application in the cloud (AWS).

04/2019 - 06/2019

• Conversation: Research, design & prototyping work on how the DocNow application can mediate conversations between the analyst (archivist/researcher) and content creators around consent/donation.

07/2019 - 09/2019

• Quotas - Design and implement Quota System in DocNow application to give instance administrators insight and control over how much data is being collected by users.
• Research feasibility of converting to PostgreSQL backend rather than Redis and ElasticSearch so that the application could run with less compute resources.
• Integrate Material Design Components into the DocNow application in order to provide a coherent user experience now that we do not have a fulltime designer.

10/2019 - 12/2019

• Address database changes.
• View Tweets/Users: Design DocNow views for exploring the tweets and users that have been collected. e.g. the first tweeets collected, most retweeted, most quoted.
• Implement Conversation design.

01/2020 - 03/2020

• DocNow: Design cleanup and complete insights views.
• DocNow: Database backend redesign.
• Catalog: Redesign for discovery and curation.

04/2020 - 06/2020

• DocNow: Conversation design and implementation.
• Hydrator: Catalog integration.
• DocNow: User testing.

07/2020 - 09/2020

• DocNow: Download data enhancements.
• DocNow: Upload tweet ids.
• Hydrator: Integrate tweet-archive viewer.
• DocNow: v1 release + supporting documentation.
• Begin Phase 3 planning.

10/2020 - 12/2020

• DocNow: RaspberryPi experimentation.
• Twarc: Premium API Support.

01/2021 - 03/2021

• 2020 Annual Report
• Complete conversation implementation.
• DocNow app installation documentation.
• DocNow app user guide.
• Update demo and community deployments at Princeton.

04/2021 - 06/2021

• Upload tweet ids.
• Update DocNow website with latest documentation
• DocNow v1.0.0 release
• v3 Proposal

07/2021 - 09/2021

• RapspberryPi Pilot
• DocNow user testing
• Phase 2 Wrap Up