ICE-RS cycle notes for the cycle ending 2007-07-26

Summary

In the first half of the previous cycle we released ICE 1.2.2 containing numerous bug fixes. The second half we were going to hold the Digital Scholarship tools workshop, unfortunately Ian Barnes from APSR was not able to attend. We went ahead with a workshop and mainly worked on the templates and indexing in ICE. This cycle we will continue work on the requirements for the server version of ICE and hope to do an Alpha release of the ICE word processor toolbar 2 and the Zotero templates.

Predicted work units: 100

Overview of completed tasks

Components

Administration

• Preparation for the "Digital Scholarship Tools" workshop

• Build and release ICE version with improvements since last release

Templates

• ICE toolbar and cross referencing dialog box user testing

• ICE Zotero user testing

Results from Digital Scholarship Tools workshop

• ICE 1.3 branch

  • Assigns Ids to document

  • Functionality to index completed – What to be indexed needs to be worked out

• Zotero template was tested with the Sun odt Word plugin ok

• ICE word processor toolbar

  • Framework in place for building styles in the OOo extension

  • Now handles a single block of multiple selections

  • Added key capture to both Word and OOo toolbars (esc + key)

    Note: A short cut to capture the key pressed needs to be manually assigned for the OOo extension

  • Cross Referencing

    • Added Cross referencing to Word toolbar – tested on Windows (Word 2003) and Mac (Word 2004)

      Identified work required for linking between multiple documents.

      Doesn't work on Mac Word because of a problem assigning to a combo box

Outstanding tasks

• .ice folders

  • remove the need for the .cache folder

  • user testing

  • refactoring

• Build Book and proof PHD dissertation by A. Robins (UNE) – waiting on the .ice folder support

Overview of new tasks

Components

Administration

• DEST Report

• Zotero Template Alpha release

• ICE Toolbar 2 Alpha release

Application

• .ice folders

  • remove the need for the .cache folder

  • user testing

  • refactoring

Templates

• Style generation in OOo extension

• Teaks and bug fixes

• User testing

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Modified: Jul 18, 2007