User Story: Ability to edit profile

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User type(s) involved

Narrative user story (for sharing/review/voting)

to be written

Background

A faculty or researcher at an institution wishes to log in to edit his/her VIVO profile. S/he can expect to:

  • (OK) be able to log in with a local institutional single sign-on system (e.g., WCMC CWID, Cornell NetID, Florida GatorID)
  • (OK) be shown what is editable and what is not
    • for fields that are not editable, provide instructions which explains how those fields can be changed
  • be able to add and edit simple data properties (text, date, numeric, true/false values) with an intuitive editor that allows at least limited formatting of free text – NIHVIVO-1139
  • (OK) be able to add object property relationships to other individuals in the local VIVO system, as appropriate for the property in question
    • this will sometimes involve a custom form that includes additional editing options, as for educational training or positions

Wish list for improvement

  • show the source of each data element - "Graph and provenance metadata" component
  • show the last modified date of each data element – NIHVIVO-690
  • provide improved type-specific editing for data properties (e.g., dates vs. numbers vs. true/false vs. free text – NIHVIVO-3561
  • do a better job of stripping out unwanted HTML tags, including cross site scripting (XSS) attempts – NIHVIVO-3462
  • improve autocomplete functions for object properties – NIHVIVO-3386
    • more responsive
    • more bulletproof in not allowing the entry of duplicate individuals
  • allow linking to people/organizations/etc in other VIVOs or in online sources of RDF – NIHVIVO-2373
  • specify on a per-person, per-statement basis what data to show publicly – "Context node-based hiding per individual" component
    • e.g., select which publications and which grants to show
  • for data from another local system of record (SOR), provide a link to the appropriate office to notify that office of the error and hopefully effect a change in the SOR that will be reflected in the next update of VIVO from that source. – deferred to VIVO 1.6; will grow out of the ["Graph and provenance metadata" component
  • the ability create galleries and be able to describe them with free text – photo galleries?
  • the abilty to sort listed grants and publications – http://issues.library.cornell.edu/browse/NIHVIVO-3415 NIHVIVO-3415
  • (OK) the ability add key words

Technical considerations

  • many of the wish list features will require improved provenance information
  • linking to other VIVOs will require more permanent hosting and updating for the multi-site index now shown at http://vivosearch.org

Priority or staging considerations

  • Let's make what we do now (basic editing) work as well as we can before we tackle too many advanced features
  • Provenance may need to be implemented in stages

See also

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