Re: Community Directory Open Actions

Hi James,
I *really* appreciate your feedback.  We have an issue track on Google and I'll put you comments in & respond. It will help us all wrap our heads around this effort to see all the recommendations & road map for Community Directory.  

Suffice to say, we are committed to making the app a relevant, useable Web app using LD best practices (and vocabs :-) and better use of the Web than it does today.  We all need a community directory. We very much value your input & our team will participate in the effort to make it happen as soon as resources are available to do next iteration.

Cheers,
Bernadette Hyland


On Feb 14, 2013, at 12:24 PM, James McKinney <james@opennorth.ca> wrote:

> Linked Data Directory is at http://dir.w3.org/main-article.docbook?view
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/actions/34
> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/actions/53
> "Convene a meeting on armchair usability for community directory" / "Community Directory Usability improvements"
> 
> We can at least close one of these, given that they are both about general usability improvements. Issues I've found:
> 
> 1. Is anything linking to this prominently from the main W3C site?
> 2. I can't add an organization without logging in. That is a major barrier to participation. Is this out of a fear of spam?
> 3. It's not clear how to get back to the home page (I need to click "Main Article"). Can we add a "Home" link above "About" in the sidebar?
> 4. I'd put the "This site was created and is supported by..." at the end, just above the Callimachus content, maybe under a line rule to make it clear that it's footer content.
> 5. Move the "At this time a username & password is required..." content to the "add your organization" step, to put this contextual information where it matters.
> 6. Can we make the email address a real link? I'm sure that email address appears in full form somewhere on the web. You will be stuck with spam no matter what.
> 7. Instead of listing steps, I'd list actions, e.g.
> 
> Header "Add your organization to the directory"
> Paragraph content "Fill in [this form](link). At this time a username ..." 
> 
> Header "Add a product, service, or project to your organization"
> Paragraph content "Click the "Edit" tab ..."
> 
> Header "Add a deployment to your organization"
> Paragraph content "Click on the "Add deployment" link..." and also describe what a deployment is, since that's not clear.
> 
> Move the "Download all the data in this directory" content out of the footer and create a new action header/paragraph pair as above.
> 
> With the above edits, the directory would be fantastic!
> 
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/actions/35
> "Leeuwen to investigate how Good Relations etc could assist with automatically filling up the directory"
> 
> I think we can close this. It's a year old, I don't see it getting done, and it's not a requirement.
> 
> James