I’ve made some good progress on the OokOok project over the last week. The system has a minimal page management interface now, so you can create, edit, and delete new pages and place them in the project’s sitemap. You can create project editions that freeze the content in time, and you can see the different versions of a page using time-based URLs.
You know you have a real software project when you have a list of things that won’t be in the current version. So it is with OokOok. Eventually, I want to support any dynamic web-based digital humanities project and allow it to run forever without any project-specific maintenance. For now, I’ll be happy creating a simple text content management system that has all the time-oriented features. We can add support for algorithms later.
Today, I want to talk a bit about the model I’m using to keep track of the different versions and the impact this has on the user interface.
