iCalendar support | Track your upcoming deadlines with Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook or other calendar software that supports ICS
Widgets | Put your upcoming conferences and deadlines on your web site
RSS aggregation | Follow your journal or conference's news updates with Pregolia
Find deadlines | All search results now highlight upcoming deadlines
Friend suggestions | Suggest items to your friends
You probably arrived at this page because you have clicked a link to a feature that is not yet implemented. Pregolia is currently a beta service, and is still far from being completed. Pregolia will remain its beta status for many months to come. Within this web site's beta period, I cannot guarantee everything to go smoothly, and user-generated data may suddenly change or become lost unexpectedly.
Some of the very basic functionalities are now in place, so you can get a taste of what's coming up when new features and categories are being implemented and launched. The Pregolia project is a one man show, and I'll be bringing out irregular updates as I find the time to do so. I'm doing this for fun, as I find there's a need for such a tool, but not for getting stressed.
The following is a (limited) public list of outstanding features that need to be implemented in Pregolia. The list will grow and (hopefully) shrink as the development of Pregolia proceeds. The beta status of Pregolia will remain for as long as the bigger features in the list haven't been implemented, and only a big pile of details remains.
Allow users to easily send messages from other user's profile page. This should be 2 minutes of work.
Currently, there's nothing in place to efficiently find friends on Pregolia. We'll need various ways of finding friends: by e-mail address (invite if not in Pregolia, possibly via address books), through user search, and recommendations from Pregolia (your friends' common friends are probably also your friends)
A progress bar to show the progression of a profile, with tips for users on how to improve their profile (fill out personal information, add 10(?) items to their library, connect to friends, ...)
All kinds of RSS feeds should be implemented, allowing users to follow up on messages, events, recommended items, etc, etc.
Conferences often have satellite workshops with their own deadlines, and journals often have special issues, also with specific one-shot deadlines. It would be really useful if these types of items could also be included into Pregolia, and included with their parent conferences/journals.
Pregolia items, comments, forum threas, reviews, et al editors should have a preview button so people can check their texts before submitting.
Small updates on profile view are necessary
Widgets should be wrapped in a cacher that expires after 24 hours, or when new items are added to the user's library.
Each groupable can now be linked to its RSS feed and news items are shown. On a user's homepage, the (10?) most recent news items from his library's feeds will be shown, which allows for a whole range of clustering, searching and filtering possibilities of these collections. For now, I'm not planning on offering services on the level of articles and such, as other services, such as CiteULike are doing a great job. We will offer CiteULike interfacing, if possible.
All Pregolia items maintain wiki-styled edit histories, which should be accessible.
Duplicate items should be checked upon submission, and there needs to be a way to merge duplicate entries.
The news feed may contain forum updates, and a reply tracker?
Allow users to recommend conferences, journals and communities to other items that they have bookmarked. The group will show the most recent group recommendations similar to related items. A user's recommendations will contain a selection of the most recent group recommendations made to the groups in his library.
Show how similar you are to other users in their summaries.
In similarity to conferences and journals, organizations could be another item type in Pregolia. These organizations my be linked to other items such that they can be adopted as the publisher of a journal, the organizer of a conference, or the affiliation of a user, etc.
The recommendations are now based on vectors of similarities. I will try out updating the current measure with inverse document frequencies to see if the data miner can get better results with that.
The search results could be used to create a tag cloud of related tags.
E-mail acknowledgement upon registration. Preferably, an account should immediately be accessible, but only for a limited time before registration acknowledgment must be sent.
Important parts of the tagging system and tag cloud code is in place, but more can be cached. This todo applies to behind-the-scenes operations.
Could we have highlighting for searches?
The leader of a group will have a choice to make on how freely people can join his community. Currently, everyone can join, we could also have invites, leader authorization. Another "dimension" would be to limit read/write access to forums, etc to community members.
A user's homepage only shows a limited list of library and network notifications. A separate page should show a longer list.
Reviews need to be editable by their poster. Ratings need to be more prominent in searches and lists. Nicer looking stars would be a bonus.
Momentum is still poor as Pregolia doesn't have enough members ... Everyone can join a little marketing effort by posting a link to pregolia on their frequented mailing lists. As you find more people from your community interested in Pregolia, you will also win, as you will learn about the conferences and journals your colleagues are also interested in.
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