v3.3: Collaborative Workbench

Forthcoming release

The v3.3 Collaborative Workbench — a browser-first, collaborative tool for reconciling and authoring place data — is in development and available to WHG staff and invited beta testers only. It is not yet released to the public. These pages document features as they are built; when v3.3 ships they will move into Guides & Tutorials.

Fig. 1 The Workbench menu — one tool, many document types (Map your Data, Place Collection, Itinerary, Gazetteer Group), with entry points to edit published material and review suggested corrections.

• 1. Map your Data
  • 1.1. What it is
  • 1.2. Why a new tool
  • 1.3. Getting started
  • 1.4. 1 · Import a dataset
  • 1.5. 2 · Confirm column roles
  • 1.6. 3 · Reconcile against WHG
  • 1.7. 4 · Review & confirm matches
  • 1.8. 5 · Map
  • 1.9. 6 · That’s a gazetteer — enrich & export
  • 1.10. 7 · Collaborate & share
  • 1.11. Caveats
• 2. Collaborative Collections
  • 2.1. What it is
  • 2.2. Starting a new document
  • 2.3. Finding your material — “Edit published…”
  • 2.4. The editor at a glance
  • 2.5. Building a Place Collection
  • 2.6. Building an Itinerary
  • 2.7. Building a Gazetteer Group
  • 2.8. Editing something already published
  • 2.9. Collaborating
  • 2.10. A note on names
  • 2.11. How this relates to the older builders
• 3. Beta Testing Plan
  • 3.1. How testing is tracked, and how issues get resolved
  • 3.2. Getting access
  • 3.3. Before you start
  • 3.4. Test checklists