This week we evaluated the survey created by Deep and Bharat and agreed upon the final questions. These will be published on this blog shortly.
We looked at the initial requirements document produced by Larry and agreed to create it as a shared Google Docs document so we can work on it collaboratively until it is ready. Once the document is finalised it will be posted here. It was felt that the document does not currently go into enough detail on specific features such as person/page/label tagging, and does not separate the requirements between creating tags, viewing them, and sharing them on social networks.
There was technical discussion regarding how to present all of the tagged photos to a user. We discussed embedded it in facebook (using a browser plugin), a facebook app, and also an external website hosted by us which shows all tagged photographs.
The database schema was briefly discussed and will be designed collaboratively for the prototype at a later date.
The problem of what to do if an image is changed or deleted was discussed and there is already a post on this blog which covers the majority of our discussion here.
We discussed the rights of domain owners to opt out of the system and how to identify who owns a website. It was decided that we should try to support websites which do not have their own domain (and instead allow people to establish ownership of a subdirectory rather than a domain). We discussed a potential permissions system which would allow granular control over what features are enabled on a particular site and how to deal with hotlinking of images. This will be elaborated on in a future blog post.
There was some disagreement over how much of the system should be hosted on our own server and how much should just be posted to the existing social networks. We reached a consensus however these discussions will likely continue in future and there will be a blog post with the final decisions taken here.
We decided that for the next week we should get our preliminary research complete, including similar systems, academic work, and relevant news. These will be posted individually in their own sections of the blog.
For next week:
Jonny: Welcome and project brief
Bharat and Deep: Analysis of Similar problems and Links to related news items in the tech media
Sumair and Larry: Relevant academic work
Minutes (by Sumair)
survey is done by deep and bharat, ready for distribution
requirements documents has been made, needs discussion
discussion on functional requirements of the system such as labels, object tagging, tagging pages etc.
jonny discussed the components of the system, like a website(html page where the actual URL will be displayed), a facebook app, server and the source (blog/www)
server is suppose to check periodically that the picture is still there….
what if the picture is changed……hash of the picture….
issues like privacy and who can tag and untag….ownership issues… ownership of the image…..domain checking
sumair and deep stressed on the part the system should have a GUI where you can see the tags/links and some comments etc
comments and labels should be there in the system…..
things for the next week
jonathan: welcome and project brief
bharat and deep: analysis of similar systems and Links to related news items in the tech media
sumair and larry: relavent academic work