h1. MAMEMS and Approaching Byzantium meeting 2023-05-04

The meeting will be about the presentation sites for the MAMEMS and the Approaching Byzantium project.
Updated information in the course of the meeting is %{color:green}in color%. Every participant is welcome to add and adapt.

h3. Participants

* *OpenAtlas*: Alexander Watzinger, Christoph Hoffmann, Moritz Großfurtner
* *MAMEMS*: Tinatin Chronz, Zachary Chitwood
* *Approaching Byzantium*: Nicholas Melvani

h3. Technical

* Domain name to use? An openatlas.eu subdomain can be offered by us. %{color:green}Will be decided via mail%
* Is a public API ok? %{color:green}There will be public prototypes early on%

h3. Audience

* Open for the public (yes in most in cases)
* Intended audience (broad public, domain experts, students, researchers, ...)
** %{color:green}Approaching Byzantium: mainly research community and students of the humanities%
** %{color:green}MAMEMS: also research community of the humanities but also e.g. monks from mount Athos%
* Language
** %{color:green}English only for both projects%
* Main target device
** %{color:green}Not too small e.g. everything doesn't have to fit on a mobile device%

h3. Content

* Generic data exploration
* Stories (guided exploration)
* Map visualizations
* Network visualizations
* Data analyses e.g.
** Anthropological age estimation (implemented)
** Social network analysis (not implemented, has to be provided externally)
* Mood Boards/References to existing sites for the design 

h3. Generic page suggestions

* Overview
* Team
* Map
* Contact
* Legal issues

h3. Workflow

* In the beginning we try to implement as much as possible in the "generic" frontend "OpenAtlas-Discovery":https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas-Discovery with which can start immediately. 
* Around autumn we will employ an additional frontend developer and begin with the "heavy lifting"
* Define a rough roadmap with milestones and dates. Useful to check progress and react in a timely manner in case of changes.
* %{color:green}Planned target dates for "almost" finished sites: MAMEMS end of 2024, Approaching Byzantium April 2023%
* %{color:green}Meet again in a bigger round in autumn 2023 where we also will discuss a more fine grained feature roadmap%