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Half a Slideshow tool
This Signal vs. Noise entry mentions their idea of releasing "half a product." That is scaling back scope as much as possible and releasing a minimally useful application that you can then build and improve on.
That's the approach we're planning for our Stellar image tool (it still lacks a final name, which makes it hard to publicize). It's really hard to keep the scope small, because there is so much excitement around using images in teaching.
The current plan is to release a proof-of-concept this Fall, where a proof-of-concept means a pilot with no pilot users. The initial tool will search against multiple repositories and keep copies or references to the images the user selects in Stellar. This should be enough exercise our tool a bit and start getting some quality feed back from MIT instructors. We'll expand the tool later to include better organization, annotation and presentation abilities.
Here's an exciting tidbit: We're planning to integrate dSpace, MIT's digital library.
I'm on vacation now, preparing to go camping and leaving the laptop at home. See you next week.
Tags: stellar repository oki dspace