The goal for this project is to become the best open source literature web/app.

The initial focus is the danish libraries as a starting point. The intention is to make it international, and extend to wider literary communities than just the libraries.

Tasks / subprojects currently in progress

Setup project infrastructure
Merge core functionality of MoBibl and solsort/RDF into the project
Document decisions / approach

Join the project You can help:

developers:
librarians:
designers:
generalists:
organisations:

TODO: link to starter issues, for each category of collaborator.

Contributing

TODO: introduction: how to make a pull request (fork|feature-branch)

Roadmap

v0.1.0

Core functionality:

rewrite basic functionality from MoBibl
rewrite basic functionality from solsort/RDF
sections
- bogapp general information about books (and the app)
- bibdata bibliographic data
- biblioteksapp information about / from the libraries
serverside rendering / search engine optimised, to encourage discovery of literature through organic search

Non-functional requirements:

new design(Material), probably partly based on DDB-App when it becomes open source
unit testing/coverage
made with mainstream technologies: JavaScript/React to make it easy for other developers to get into the code
as contributor friendly as possible (contributing guide, get-started-issues, etc.), and start building community around the app development

Steering

Keep number dependencies low
Choose mainstream technologies
Keep it simple
Major decisions is documented here, with underlying reason. Choices are always up for wall-arguet discussions.

List of decisions with motivation/reason:

Design: Material

Material gives a common foundation and language for reasoning about the design. Following Material Design guidelines, also makes easier to collaborate on components etc. with other projects. It also feels more native on android, - and is a design language that is being used all across platforms, so users are getting used to it.

Design framework: undetermined

Currently using react-md, - tried material-ui earlier, which didn't play well.

Working language: English

The vision is that the project should be usable internationally. The first version of the app is made in english, and then i18n to danish.

Build framework: next.js

Simple way to get server-side rendering, and has a large community momentum.

TODO: add more design choices here

TODO: describe motivation for each dependency in project TODO: describe design choices

Community

TODO: join, core team, collaborators, etc...

History

TODO add details here

BogApp builds upon the following projects