Skip to main content

Platform for Experimental Ethnography (PECE)

A collective inquiry in to complex conditions. Development sponsored by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

About

The PECE add-on for Plone is a research tool, currently in use by RPI but available to anyone doing similar research. It features Dexterity Content Types and a Collective Cover integration to enable the creation of an “Asthma File”: a collectively developed document containing artifacts and annotations.

Installation

To install PECE functionality on your Plone site, add collective.pece to your list of Plone “instance eggs” in your buildout.cfg file. Run Buildout and restart Plone. Create a new Plone site with the add-on selected:

screenshot1.png

Or add the functionality to an existing site:

screenshot2.png

After installation, you should be able to add 6 new content types to your Plone site:

screenshot8.png

Usage

Follow these steps to begin using the PECE functionality in your Plone site.

Add a Question

Questions facilitate Annotations of Artifacts when researchers respond to them in context. Before you do anything else, add an Asthma Question to your site.

screenshot4.png

Create Artifacts

An “Asthma File” is produced via the assembly of artifacts and annotations. So next, add some artifacts to your site. E.g.:

Audio artifact

screenshot9.png

Document artifact

Image artifact

screenshot5.png

Video artifact

screenshot10.png

Create an Asthma File

Now we can create an Asthma File, which is a collaborative document consisting of multiple Artifacts, Annotations, etc. Made possible via the use of Collective Cover. [1]

screenshot6.png screenshot7.png

Zotero Integration

This add-on provides experimental integration with zotero.com, currently in proof-of-concept stage i.e. there is API connectivity and nothing else. We are waiting for community input to help us decide the first feature.

To configure the demo view, set the following environment variables in your shell before running Plone e.g.:

$ export ZOTERO_API_KEY=dFXmvyQvLMQpdfNs
$ export ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=1234
$ export ZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE=group

Then check: http://localhost:8080/Plone/@@zotero.

Known Issues

feedparser

PyZotero’s feedparser version spec conflicts with Plone, see: https://github.com/urschrei/pyzotero/issues/29. To work around this issue, override Plone’s feedparser version spec in your buildout.cfg e.g.:

[versions]
feedparser = 5.1.3

documentviewer

collective.documentviewer’s Dexterity integration is in alpha stage, see:

Changelog

0.0.8 - 09/15/2013

  • Fix content type titles: Asthma Annotation, Asthma Response

0.0.7 - 09/15/2013

  • Rename annotation -> asthma_annotation

  • Rename response -> asthma_response

  • Add richtext field to response, fixes #1

  • Reorder artifact content type fields

  • Rename artifact primary fields to file_

  • Add artifact-view to display menu

0.0.6 - 09/13/2013

  • Fix package error

0.0.5 - 09/13/2013

  • Rename reserved word “dublin_core-named” fields from dublin_core_<fieldname> to <fieldname>_

  • Rename package: rpi.asthma_files_site -> collective.pece

  • Remove logo customization, part II: template-overrides directory removed

  • Rename question content type id -> asthma_question

  • Add tests

  • Add more documentation

  • Add preliminary Zotero integration

  • Add collective.documentviewer integration

0.0.4 - 09/02/2013

  • Add more documentation

  • Change title/id generation on all artifacts to use INameFromFileName behavior

0.0.3 - 08/28/2013

  • Remove new-style (Diazo) theme

0.0.2 - 08/25/2013

  • Add empty registry

  • Remove dep on p.a.theming

  • Add preliminary installation and usage documentation.

  • Rename menu item: (Asthma) Question -> Asthma Question.

  • Remove logo customization until Diazo theme is completed/supported.

0.0.1 - 08/21/2013

  • Initial release

Metadata

Release files for collective.pece 0.0.8

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for collective.pece 0.0.8
File Size Uploaded
collective.pece-0.0.8.zip 854.0 kB Details

Release files / collective.pece-0.0.8.zip

Download URL collective.pece-0.0.8.zip
Size 854.0 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
cf2e7066b4fa9fcb95c0a71b254ad5863c55d3f4916bf810d6582219e49ad7b7
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
b6976a0879857c983c79f95fdab9f25ae2c059318a95f679b08ed7ea40d258a5
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

This release

0.0.8 This release

1 release file

0.0.7

1 release file

0.0.6

1 release file

0.0.5

1 release file

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page