curation tab functionality

[goldturtle]

@draciti commented on Nov 30, 2017

I want to open this ticket to share thoughts on the functionality of the curation tab.
My aim was to open TPC and curate a paper in the paper viewer.
As curator I would click on the curation tab and expect to be able to put in a PMID or a WBPaperID and from there being able to see the paper in the viewer for curation.

I am aware that papers can be searched in the 'additional search box' on the search page but I was wondering if we could make the curation tab an entry point for curation.

thanks

[goldturtle]

@valearna commented on Nov 30, 2017

The 'Curation' tab does not currently provide search functionalities, so you always need to go to the 'Search' tab to load a paper. The problem that I see with the idea of inserting a paper ID field to load papers directly from the Curation tab is that multiple papers may have the same ID (e.g., in C. elegans literature, a paper and its supplemental materials share the same WBPaper IDs), and to disambiguate different cases we would basically need to replicate the complete search interface.
In my opinion the problem is that the menu entries are not self-explanatory and their functionalities may not be immediately clear to the user. We could try to make them more specific (e.g., using 'Curation viewer' or 'Curate selected paper' instead of 'Curation' - and also 'Upload papers' instead of 'Papers'). Another option to make the interface more user-friendly could be to remove the 'Curation' tab from the menu, so that the curation viewer would be accessible only from the 'Search' page. Anyway, I would like to discuss these aspects with all Caltech curators at the next Textpresso meeting before implementing any changes.

If the 'accession' field is important to curators, and if you think that it will be used frequently, we can make it more visible in the search page, maybe by moving it under the 'keywords' input field.