Beta Baseline

In 2015 we began a re-engineering of the MapStory prototype site which had previously soft launched in April 2012 and opened up for public registration in January 2013. This table represents the features checklist that informed the "MapStory Beta" re-engineering effort, which we aim to stamp as a 0.1.0 release in April, 2017. The Roadmap represents the development agenda for further releases beyond the 0.1.0 baseline in 2017.

There are 10 current ‘core components’ that encompass the Beta 0.1.0 release:

1. Data importer – allows users to upload openly licensed spatio-temporal datasets as “StoryLayers”
2. Icon Commons– allows user to upload openly licensed icons into a commons that all registered users can use in the MapStories they publish
3. Create StoryLayer tool – allows users without data to create a new StoryLayer directly in the platform and then begin adding features to it
4. Collaborative Version Edit tool – allows users to contribute edits to StoryLayers and track these changes by user accounts
5. Append tool – allows users to add multiple edits to a StoryLayer at once
6. Composer – allows users to style StoryLayers and add boxes, pins, and chapters with the goal of presenting a geospatially based narrative (MapStory).
7. Publisher – allows users to have confidence that their published MapStory will be able to be viewed by anyone, either on the platform or as an embed elsewhere, and will appear as they designed it to appear in Composer
8. Search - allows users to find StoryLayers and narratives by filtering through a set of categories and
9. Peer Review & Peer Support – allows users to provide feedback on StoryLayers and MapStories created by other users and to provide help and documentation that helps other users succeed on the platform
10. Profile Management – allows users to manage the content (StoryLayers and narratives) they produce and to represent themselves to the rest of the user community.

KEY:

• Y: Functionality works
• N: Functionality not working
• F: Future release
• 1 (high priority), 2 (lower priority), 3 (lowest priority)

Component	Feature	Live on MapStory.org	Live on Staging	Needed for Beta Launch
Data Importer	Import SHP files	Y	Y	Y
Data Importer	Import CSV files	Y	Y	Y
Data Importer	Importer Raster files	N	N	N
Data Importer	Enable users to download datasets	Y	Y	Y
Data Importer	Provide good documentation to user on importing	Y	Y	Y
Icons Commons	Upload icons as svg	Y	Y	N
Icons Commons	Upload collections of icons as svg	Y	Y	N
Icons Commons	Use icons to style a story	N	N	N
Create Layer tool	Let new user create layers	N	N	Y
Create Layer tool	Let created layers be version editable by owner	N	N	Y
Create Layer tool	Let created layers be version editable by other Users	N	N	Y
Collaborative Version Edit tool	Let layers be version editable by other users	N	N	Y
Collaborative Version Edit tool	Enable all edits to be tracked by user accounts (versioned editing)	Y	Y	Y
Collaborative Version Edit tool	Enable user to manage editing permissions for their layer	N	N	N
Collaborative Version Edit tool	Enable administrator to activate and deactivate community editing on a layer	N	N	N
Append Tool	Enable user to upload large numbers of edits to a StoryLayer tracked in version history	N	N	Y
Composer	Enable user to compose MapStory with styled StoryLayers, chapters, boxes and pins	N	N	Y
Composer	Enable user to customize the title of the StoryLayers as they appear in their MapStory, as well as determine which attributes in a StoryLayer will appear as part of the legend	N	N	Y
Composer	Enable user to create StoryPins that extend to the same time extents as StoryLayers	N	N	Y
Composer	Enable user to upload many StoryPins at once	Y	Y	Y
Publisher	Enable user to publish a MapStory to the public and play it quickly and cleanly	Y	Y	Y
Publisher	Enable user to publish a StoryLayer to the public and play it quickly and cleanly	Y	Y	Y
Publisher	Enable published MapStories to persist styles and settings defined by user in Composer	N	N	Y
Publisher	Enable published StoryLayers to persist the zoom extent, timeline, legend and feature types as set by user who uploaded or created the StoryLayer	Y	Y	Y
Publisher	Enable MapStory to be played on a continuous loop	N	N	N
Publisher	Enable MapStory or StoryLayer to be viewed on a desktop of tablet	Y	Y	Y
Search	Enable published StoryLayers or MapStories to be filtered by categories	Y	Y	Y
Search	Enable published StoryLayers or MapStories to be filtered by tags	Y	Y	Y
Search	Enable published StoryLayers or MapStories to be filter by spatial and temporal filters	N	N	N
Peer Review & Support	Enable users to flag layers	Y	Y	Y
Peer Review & Support	Enable users to provide threaded comments	Y (StoryLayers)	Y (StoryLayers)	Y
Peer Review & Support	Enable users to rate content on a 5-star scale	Y (StoryLayers)	Y (StoryLayers)	Y
Peer Review & Support	Enable users to send direct private messages to one another	Y	Y	Y
Peer Review & Support	Enable users to author journal articles for all users to read	Y	Y	Y
Peer Review & Support	Provide introductory trainings for users	Y	Y	Y
Peer Review & Support	Provide a way for users to join a Volunteer Technical Community	Y	Y	N
Profile	Enable users to manage a profile that presents all of the StoryLayers, MapStories, journal entries, and icons and activities a user taken the platform	Y	Y	Y
Profile	Enable a group or organization to manage a profile that presents the users involved in their group, and their respective StorLayers, MapStories, journal entries, icons and activities taken on the platform	Y	Y	N