Minutes for June 16, 1998

The meeting convened at Michael's Restaurant at about 11:45. It ended at about 12:45. Sarah took notes, and Sam made modifications.

Preliminaries

• We will meet tomorrow at 2:00 and Thursday. Kevin and Sarah will be gone Friday and Sam will be gone Monday.
• The week after next Sam is going to have us over for a socialization thing.
• If we are submitting our work (most likely), two places to think about are:
  • WebNet98 (in Orlando in November)
  • Small College Computing Consortuim Midwest Conference (in

Annotation Subsystem

• We still need a name for this!
• A summary of the survey results are on the web http://www.math.grin.edu/~luebke/SurveyResults.html
• Hilary had an idea about using an icon to represent people. Many we could offer several icons and they could choose which. A crown for SamR? (ho ho funny)
• We will probably use <ANNOTATION> flags in the html document. What should we do if pages are editted? If the author does not put the flags in, we could have them be automatically set at each header flag.
• Note to SamR: look up algorithms on matching similar text (if the header was changed slightly).
• We should draw pictures for tomorrow of the architecture.
• A suggestion was made to have each annotation stored in a separate file. A directory and/or table of contents would be needed.
• How do we handle group permissions? SamR thought we could say there is an annotation here, but you do not have priveleges to it.

Logging Subsystem

• Kevin is no longer creating an object and sending it to the server. Now he is sending the fields from Perl and creating the object on the server (which makes it easier to do from multiple systems). He is using an data input stream.
• He plans to work on the Identification Subsystem when this is done.
• He had a question about hex mode in Xemacs. He wanted to set the number of bytes printed on each line. No one knew how.
• Raphen's followup question "can you edit the hex" was also unanswered.
• How often do we want a 'still on page' message from the applet? [Exponential decay.]

Analysis Subsystem

Raphen had a problem if someone is on the same page in two different windows. The log cannot distinguish between them. Missing data is a big problem. Creating information is also a problem.