Merge branch 'master' of http://gitlab.iath.virginia.edu/snac/Documentation

README.md

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 The currently-being-revised TAT requirements are found in the [tat_requirements](tat_requirements).
 
+The best place to start is the big, overall [plan](tat_requirements/plan.md).
+
 This is Gitlab, a work-alike clone of the Github web site, but installed locally on a SNAC server. Gitlab is a
 version control system with a suite of project management tools.
 

tat_requirements/plan.md

 
-Big questions
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+#### Big questions
+
 
 - (solved) how is gitlab backed up?
 
   - Shayne backs up the whole gitlab VM.
 
-- We need a complete description of controlled vocabulary hierarchy. This ties in with, and is similar
-  (perhaps computationally transformaable to) a tagging system. See [Tag system](#controlled-vocabularies-and-tag-system).
-  
+- We need a complete understanding of our requirements for controlled vocabulary, ontology, and/or tagging as
+  well as how this relates to search facets. This also impacts our future ability to make assertions about the
+  data, and is somewhat related to semantic net. See [Tag system](#controlled-vocabularies-and-tag-system).
   
-Overview and order of work
----
 
+#### Overview and order of work
 
 1. create tech documents, filling in as much prose as possible
    - currenly on-going
@@ -28,8 +27,7 @@ Overview and order of work
 1. create version 1 of software
 
 
-Code we write
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+#### Code we write
 
 - Identitiy Reconciliation (aka IR) (architect Robbie)
 
@@ -86,35 +84,31 @@ Code we write
   whatever that's called. From a software architecture perspective, the answer is 0, 1, infinite.
 
 
-Controlled vocabularies and tag system 
----
+#### Controlled vocabularies and tag system 
 
-The tags are very similar to vocabulary entryies in that the tag values are controlled. The difference being a
-weaker moderation of tags and more readiness to create new tags (types). The tag table would consist of tag,
-value and is essentially a name-value system. If we create tags, should we try to enforce some data typing,
-that is: string, int, date, float, etc.?
+Tags are simply terms. When inplemented as fixed terms with persistent IDs and some modify/add policy, tags
+become a flat (non-hierarchal) controlled vocabulary.
 
+The difference being a weaker moderation of tags and more readiness to create new tags (types). The tag table
+would consist of tag term and an ID value. Tag systems lack data type, and generally have no policy or less
+restrictive policies about creating new tags
 
-It seems pretty clear that some controlled vocabularies need to have n sub-vocabularies. And some subclasses
-can probably appear with several super-classes. 'Periodicals' appears in around 400 subjects. It also appears
-that the order of sub and super is not well defined. In some cases 'Periodicals' is the final subject, and in
-other cases the first subject. Curiously, topical subject bears a strong resemblence to the "tags" suggested
-below in
+Below are some subject examples. It is unclear if these are each topics, or if "--" is used to join granular
+topics into a topic list. Likewise it is unclear if this list relies on some explicit hierarchy. 
   
 ```
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'American literature--19th century--Periodicals' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'American literature--20th century--Periodicals' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'Periodicals' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'Periodicals--19th century' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'World politics--Periodicals' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'World politics--Pictorial works' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'World politics--Societies, etc.' );
-INSERT INTO vocabulary (type, value) values ( 'subject', 'World politics--Study and teaching' );
+American literature--19th century--Periodicals
+American literature--20th century--Periodicals
+Periodicals
+Periodicals--19th century
+World politics--Periodicals
+World politics--Pictorial works
+World politics--Societies, etc.
+World politics--Study and teaching
 ```
 
 
-Code we use off the shelf
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+#### Code we use off the shelf
 
 - gitlab for docs, code version management, issue tracking(?)