Initial Discussions

[rtshkmr]

Follow up actions:

1. Early Adopters:

   • the gap that a text-based interface creates is not a priority right now
   • we shall coattail on other platforms: e.g. for youtube videos, ride onto comments that you see there. E.g. there are T-series videos with huge viewership numbers ==> can get commentary + info with nice overlay

2. Some key engines:

   • archival engine
   • datastructs:
     • Representing verses and creating a corpus:
       • schematising the data verse by verse
         • multiple views of the central data obj:
           • translation view

3. Requirements to Strive for:

   • sleek interface is a req esp since it's a text based interface: https://write.sonnet.io/

References Related to the Initial Inspiration:

1. Examples of Digital Archives from various cultures:
   • Ctext Project is a digital archive of pre-mordern chinese literature.
   • Tamil Virtual Academy
   • There's an IIT project about the gita, but it doesn't look that modern
2. Sleek text-based UI inspirations:
   • Annotations plugin with sharing, public discussion thread features
   • Gwern Branwen's Website: it's actually pretty appealing. The hyperlinks seem to be autogenerated though, e.g. simple stuff like "Cat" is wiki-linked.
     • Colours Rubrication as a means of standing out
3. Architectural Patterns & Data Structures of note:
   • Pattern Language -- Project Xanadu
     • 1. Visible links (similar to wikipedia)
4. Some noteworthy trends in the internet:
   • Digital Gardening:
     • A dive into the practice of growing digital gardens (here)
     • examples of digital garden
       ** https://www.are.na/

[rtshkmr]

Uncat Implementation Points:

1. Youtube & iframe embeds:

• iframe player api ref

@KosmonautX mentioned:

so if we are building ontop of youtube embeds

we can manipulate the video frame

and pair it with our parallel corpus

https://youtu.be/e4vxg2stIIA

will essentially digitise the problem channels like his face having to create multiple frames of slides to transpose this material

[rtshkmr]

UI Inspirations

Some Areas of Focus for UI:

1. text based UI (e.g. magazines...)
2. Integration with existing journeys e.g. whatsapp forwarded messages

Dump:

1. Design guidelines for dealing with information density -- https://blog.logrocket.com/balancing-information-density-in-web-development/
   • I think the information density should be properly managed else it will be overwhelming for a user

2. Spotify Desktop's 3 panel split is something that could be followed since it contains text-based info along with media controls and interaction

3. Hello Monday has really good use of whitespaces -- https://www.hellomonday.com/ .

[rtshkmr]

Entry Gateways

Consumption of Video

1. serving the general person, by value-adding their consumption of common things (videos) ==> this is a good entry-gateway
   • the example here is the youglish
2. Using killer apps like whatsapp, to integrate with features like stories as well

[ks0m1c]

Url fragments and breadcrumbs

[rtshkmr]

Case Study: TheQuran.com

https://quran.com/25?startingVerse=6

[rtshkmr]

Case Study: SuttaCentral and Friends (Buddhanexus)

• https://suttacentral.net/?lang=en
• https://buddhanexus.net/ ==> they figured out how to cross link across texts (and across languages of similar content)