Fluid Engage release overview

projected release Quarter 3, 2009
Fluid Engage Roadmap Q3

• Import data from museums into Engage-specific database from XML and CSV

• Museum data feed directly from/to Couch DB

• On an iPhone, users can:
  1. Browse a collection of objects
  2. View information and pictures about an individual object
  3. Add tags to an object

• CollectionBrowse

• Tag

• ArtifactView

• Data importer

• Couch DB database

• Simple server-side deployment environment (Kettle)

• mFSS theme for iPhone

• ScreenNavigator component to provide native-like navigation on iPhone

projected release Quarter 4, 2009

• Search

• MyCollection

• Refinements to Browse, ArtifactView, Tag

  • Support for different types of content and collections, e.g. special exhibits and featured objects

  • Deeper integration of components into a holistic mobile UX

• Preliminary MapDisplay: show a vector-based map tagged with information of interest

• User interface for importing data

• Ability to access data feeds without using Couch DB (eg. for McCord)

• Search service: Lucene plus REST interface for Lucene

• mFSS theme for Android

projected release Quarter 1, 2010

• More solid MapDisplay

• Refinements and deeper integration of Browse, Search, View, Tag, Collect

• TMS importer service of some kind

• Map authoring tool

• Experimental 2D barcode support: ability to take a picture and see the ArtifactView page for it