tapilab/ant

Artist Network Toolkit

ant's Issues

Add deploy to heroku button

Users should be able to:

1. Create a heroku account
2. Click "deploy to heroku" from the ANT github
3. Paste in their google sheet url
4. Have a working website.

Finishing up sheet template - v0.1

• Test sheet from blank, adding fields
• Support using the number of relationships feature
• Finalize initial template that CST will use with scripts embedded - include some example entities and relationships.

Network statistics page

Create a page that lists all entities of the same type along with a
set of sortable network metrics. E.g.

• betweenness centrality
• degree
• clustering coefficient
• ...

Support filtering by year

As in https://www.vicinoproject.org/network/, we'll want to add support for filtering the network by year and sliding across time.

Measures of influence

How can we support investigating questions like: "who influenced the spread of iconography X in the artworld?"

Idea:

• Have a column that indicates this iconography is present.
• Analyze the graph over time to see when the iconography appears and who is a potential influencer based on the network structure.
• Compute influence metrics accordingly.

Representing uncertainty

Historical scholarship is full of uncertainty – of attribution, of dates, of locations. How can we allow users to express this uncertainty in the data and to navigate it while exploring visualizations of artistic production?

Ideas:

• New relationship types: E.g., "MaybeCreatedBy" to express uncertainty?
• Edge weights: The MaybeCreatedBy link could have a smaller edge weight than the CreatedBy link
• ???

Clicking a link in the entity sidebar should load in the sidebar

E.g., when Raphael is in the sidebar and I click one of his paintings, two things should happen:

• The sidebar should update to the details of the painting
• The network should update to where the painting is.

Handle dates as date datatypes

We'll probably have to add a new column to the Entities tab to specify start/end year column names.

Make human friendly error messages from data upload page

make security questions more secure

Password for configure page

Users should be able to set/reset the password to access the configure page. Not sure how to do this yet -- e.g., we could just let the password be set the first time the configure page is accessed? Otherwise, we'd need some other form prior to website creation to set this.

Allow more UI customization

The idea is to add a new tab to the input Google sheet that gives the user some more ways to customize the final website, including:

• About page -- let them add free text, emails, etc.
• Landing page logo
• Title of website

Support multiple datasheets / subdomains

Users should be allowed to host multiple visualizations from the same site, e.g.

• mysite.com/raphael
• mysite.com/davinci

We would need a list of spreadsheet urls, a way to store different databases for each spreadsheet, and a dropdown menu from the homepage to get to each copy of the website.

if import fails, revert to previous database

Dealing with colors for the network

Color is showing up as an attribute