Re: Community Directory Open Actions

Sounds good. I'd be happy to make the little tweaks to the home page content myself. What's the process around that?

Similarly, for changes to docs managed by Mercurial, I assume that only the editors should commit changes. If that's not the case I'd be happy to make my proposed edits myself, especially when it's something like fixing a typo.

Re: using vCard instead of ORG, I think vCard makes sense for the Directory, because the directory really is more like business cards. ORG is best used to express organizational structure, which is not something the directory does or needs to do. For instance, to give an organization's address in ORG, you'd need an org:Organization, which has an org:Site, which has a vcard:VCard, which as a vcard:Address. With vCard, it's just the last two.


On 2013-02-14, at 2:52 PM, Bernadette Hyland wrote:

> 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
>