h1. MAMEMS and Approaching Byzantium meeting 2021-12-08

Updated information in the course of the meeting is %{color:green}in color%. Every participant is welcome to add and adapt.

h2. Participants

* *OpenAtlas*: Alexander Watzinger, Nina Richards
* *MAMEMS*: Zachary Chitwood
* *Approaching Byzantium*: Nicholas Melvani

The meeting will be about workflows when sharing the same database, introducing new features and discussing questions.

h2. Topics

* Public protocol %{color:green} Public protocol was accepted by all participants%
* Constantinople logo and mail problems %{color:green}Options were discussed, and maybe a logo can be financed by the ACDH-CH cooperation budget; Alex will contact our designer Jan Belik (https://janbelik.com) as well about another cooperation regarding prosopography%
* Professions: 
** %{color:green} are mapped with a relation "member of" instead of a type in the actor form; keep in mind, you can only be a member of a group, but multiple groups can be selected at the same time%
** %{color:green} professions can be added from the level of "group" or the level of "actor"; to will create the same connection between the entries; this goes for participants in an event as well, they can either be added from the actor or the event tab%
** %{color:green} Question dates: if there is only one date known (like is mentioned in one source, so we know he has been there for at least one day but no more information) - Add the person to an event with a date and leave the date blank for the membership (profession) and add free text about it to the description field; if dates are needed for research questions, pick a big enough time frame for dates and add additional information in the description field; generally, choose a time frame you are 100 per cent sure the entire stay/membership, etc. falls within%
** %{color:green} If possible, delete the profession types created as custom types and use the presented way to not cause confusion for other people that enter data; the same goes for the "Office or Title" type%
** %{color:green} There is also a "manual section":https://demo.openatlas.eu/static/manual/examples/index.html that explains the workflow on how to set up professions; please have a look if you are interested%
* %{color:green} Presentation of data integrity checks in the admin menu%
* %{color:green} Bug #1616 was reported%


h2. Events

* For one-day events it's ok to enter only begin if we agree on it
** %{color:green} it would be clearer to put the day in the begin and the end as date to make it clear it was only a one day event; but the whole group should agree on how to enter the dates to be consistent%
* Visits like a pilgrimage (%{color:green} prosponed to the next meeting, set up a doodle for planning%)
* Acquisitions (%{color:green} prosponed to the next meeting, set up a doodle for planning%)