To-Do List and Features Requests

2003-2012

COLLECTIONS to process

I'm going through every one of the 3100 old documents (composed of 17,500 individual files) to edit them, update links, add meta-data, improve formatting, look for any old HTML files that didn't get imported in 2003, proofread, and in the case of books, to import fully into the database. This will take the entirety of 2010-2012 to complete.

1. Bahá'í International Community documents, including adding "NY," BIC doc ID numbers, and links back to bic.org. Other BIC docs?
2. Biographies
3. Books, and reformat things like momen_scripture_revelation
4. Compilations, personal, and change titles like "Suffering, Meaning of"
5. Documents, historical
6. Essays
7. Compilations of books (BWF, prayers, etc)
8. Excerpts from books
9. Histories, memoirs, interviews
10. Introductory items
11. Library miscellany, notes, history
12. NSA documents
13. NSA letters
14. Pilgrims notes
15. http://bahai-library.com/resources/tablets-notes
16. Talks by Bahá'í notables
17. Translations, provisional
18. UHJ documents
19. UHJ letters
20. Writings, Sacred

TO DO SOONER

1. upgrade lgn & hash, move to new URL
2. Missing http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/rosenburg.html
3. Fix chapter code
4. Program section breaks by letter in collection output, e.g. "A"
5. fix http://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_hidden-words_arabic_1903
6. get new items from ocn
7. Reconcile http://bahai-library.com/bab_seleccion_escritos_old and http://bahai-library.com/bab_seleccion_escritos
8. use Collections output for languages, e.g. so that users can sort.
9. http://www.scribd.com/doc/32198973/Beyers-categories-and-Bahai http://scp.sagepub.com/content/50/2/247.abstract
10. Essays by momen and rabbani et al. http://www.bahaindex.com/en/news/general-news
11. fix "Download: pdf/date/file_name.pdf" and "Download: bahai-library.com/pdf/date/file_name.pdf" to just "Download: file_name.pdf"
12. fix chapter 2 http://bahai-library.com/shoghieffendi_messages_antipodes
13. http://bahai-library.com/hunter_jones_bioprospecting_australia
14. http://religiousunity.org/BahArt/Bahai%20Index.htm
15. http://www.commongroundgroup.net
16. make new collection for archives like dialogue, soc.religion.bahai. Also for video
17. implement new caching system, e.g. http://www.snipe.net/2009/03/quick-and-dirty-php-caching/
18. http://www.iranian.com/main/2010/sep/greatest-sin?page=3 and search iranian.com for "Bahá'í"
19. Fix up http://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_hidden-words_arabic_1903
20. search "font size=-1", "font-size:smaller;" "font-size:90%;", and replace with "font class="smaller" and "+1" with "class="bigger"". Then check pages like http://bahai-library.com/hassall_fazel_100-years_europe
21. http://www.nybahai.org/july9th/index.html
22. fix bahaikipedia links, e.g. http://bahaikipedia.org/September_8 and http://bahaikipedia.org/Australia ; make entry for myself; link to it in reflist
23. http://sites.google.com/site/akbweb/bah%C3%A1%27%C3%ADrelatedpages
24. http://bahai-library.com/bsr/bsr03_2/325_lambden_scholarship.htm, and other old BSR pages needing to be redirected?
25. http://hub.webring.org/hub/bahai
26. http://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/articles-online/ , and send Sen new links to this and http://www.sonjavank.com/sen/bahaipub.htm
27. http://bahai-library.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5172
28. http://www.sacred-texts.com/bhi/sog/index.htm
29. http://www.bahaindex.com/en/news/local , http://www.bahaindex.com/en/news/editorial-opinion
30. http://www.upliftingwords.org/Bahaiarticles.htm
31. http://info.bahai.org/article-1-7-6-8.html (and other articles from here?)
32. http://bahai-education.org/materials/badasht/
33. http://covenantstudy.org/additional-documents/mason-remey-and-those-who-followed-him/
34. http://sites.google.com/site/njbridgewater/
35. fix http://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_surih_haykal_haddad
36. http://hdcommittee.wordpress.com/
37. http://users.sisqtel.net/kevenbrown/
38. http://sites.google.com/site/mcleantitles/
39. http://independent.academia.edu/HusseinAhdieh
40. http://brighton.academia.edu/IsmaelVelasco/Papers
41. http://mcgill.academia.edu/ArashAbizadeh , http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/abizadeh/publicationsbahai.htm , http://profs-polisci.mcgill.ca/abizadeh/publications.htm
42. http://vuw.academia.edu/GrahamHassall
43. http://www.academia.edu/People/Bahai , http://www.academia.edu/People/Baha_i_Studies , http://www.academia.edu/People/Bahai_studies
44. http://bahairants.com/several-bahai-documents-speeches-466.html
45. Did I get all of http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/bahaixb.htm ?
46. http://bahaimedia.org/Category:Genealogy
47. http://www.bahaiphilosophystudies.com
48. http://www.sonjavank.com/sen/
49. articles at http://info.bahai.org/article-1-11-0-1.html
50. search archive.org for items like http://www.bahai.org.au/abs/a3misc.htm
51. http://web.archive.org/web/20011102142932/http://www.bahai.org.au/abs/books.htm
52. http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~rclarken/bahai-info.htm
53. http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~rclarken/ed-papers.htm
54. Study guide: http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~rclarken/bahai/correspondence-dispens-bahaullah.htm
55. http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~rclarken/bahai/implications-for-education.htm
56. http://www.bcca.org/services/lists/noble-creation/
57. Other BIC and NSA statements? Search web.
58. http://www.bcca.org/bahaivision/p0600.html
59. http://www.bcca.org/bahaivision/p0601.html
60. http://bahai-library.com/history_faith_trinidad_tobago get source docs
61. fix CC output, e.g. http://bahai-library.com/4661
62. http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/religion/bahai.html
63. Reduce ToC, http://bahai-library.com/taylor_pupil_eye
64. Search initials ("E. G. Browne" vs "E.G. Browne"), middle initials (Robert S. Stockman, William S. Hatcher)
65. Collection sort: date added
66. fix links in http://bahai-library.com/lovejoy_dwight_barstow_collection
67. why aren't date showing up in Newspaper collection?
68. figure out "CC Non-commercial No-derivative" in Localizations table, change Hatcher
69. http://www.bahaindex.com/en/component/bookmarks/?catid=29
70. http://bahaistudies.net/kf/
71. http://darrenhiebert.com/documents/index.html
72. http://emadtalisman.wordpress.com/tools-and-resources/
73. http://www.iranhrdc.org/httpdocs/English/aadel.htm
74. http://www.palabrapublications.com/miscellaneous http://www.palabrapublications.com/downloads
75. http://findarticles.com/p/search/?qt=baha%27i
76. http://www.archive.org/details/SrimadBhagawatGitaAndTheBahaiFaith-ADiscussion
77. http://bahaistudies.net/otherworks/
78. http://bahaistudies.net/bahaiworks/
79. http://bahaistudies.net/compilations/
80. http://bahaistudies.net/uhj/
81. http://bahaistudies.net/bwc/
82. http://bahaistudies.net/se/
83. http://bahaistudies.net/ab/
84. http://bahaistudies.net/bab/
85. http://bahaistudies.net/baha/
86. search onread.com
87. http://www.bahaistudycenter.com
88. http://www.scribd.com/Mark_A_Foster_1152/documents
89. search openlibrary.com/org
90. http://www.studibahai.org/elenco_docs.php
91. http://fananapazir.tk/
92. http://cluster9.org/heading.php?body=docs_body.htm&head=docs_head.htm
93. http://bahai-library.com/gulpaygani_brilliant_proof
94. http://bahaitributes.wordpress.com/category/academic/
95. http://bahai-library.com/?file=bab_manuchehri_will_testament
96. http://bahai-library.com/?file=hassall_ambassador_court_baker
97. http://bahai-library.com/?file=hornby_lights_guidance#nnnXLI.D
98. http://bahai-library.com/?file=ives_mothers_stories_abdulbaha.html
99. http://bahai-library.com/?file=johnson_mulla_husayn
100. http://bahai-library.com/?file=momen_hinduism_bahai
101. http://bahai-library.com/?file=riggs_apocalypse_unsealed
102. http://bahai-library.com/author.php?author=jonah+winters
103. http://bahai-library.com/bafa/g/gillespie.htm
104. and get BAFA poetry, e.g. http://bahai-library.com/bafa/h/herrmann.htm
105. http://bahai-library.com/bafa/t/tobey.htm
106. http://bahai-library.com/brown_memories_abdulbaha
107. http://bahai-library.com/browser/browse.php?file=lights&langu=en
108. http://bahai-library.com/compilation_compilations_2
109. http://bahai-library.com/kitzing_origin_complex_order
110. http://bahai-library.com/momen_lawh_basit_haqiqa
111. http://bahai-library.com/nsa_lsa_by-laws
112. http://bahai-library.com/NSA-letters/
113. http://bahai-library.com/pilgrims/pilgrimage.viswanathan/
114. http://bahai-library.com/published.uhj/jan17.html
115. http://bahai-library.com/sources_life_writings_abdul-baha
116. http://bahai-library.com/Study/
117. http://bahai-library.com/uhj_ridvan_1999
118. http://bahai-library.com/wttp/ get PDF and obituary
119. http://bahaikipedia.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&redirs=0&search=bahai-library.com&limit=100&offset=0
120. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/trans.htm
121. http://www.britannica.com/bps/search?query=baha%27i
122. http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/notes/research.htm
123. http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/docs/docs.htm
124. http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/index/diglib/books.html
125. http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?ALLSELECTED=1&xc=1&g=moagrp&type=simple&rgn=full+text&q1=babis*&cite1=&cite1restrict=author&cite2=&cite2restrict=author&Submit=Search &c=moawar&c=moamono&c=amis&c=amwh&c=atla&c=bays&c=cent&c=cont&c=gala&c=harp&c=intr&c=livn&c=manu&c=newe&c=nwng&c=nwen &c=nora&c=oldg&c=punc&c=putn&c=scia&c=scri&c=scmo&c=usde
126. http://en.bahaitext.org/Baha%27i_News_Letter/Issue_1 and http://www.facebook.com/bahaitext?ref=pb
127. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_orthography&action=edit§ion=3
128. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2F%2A.bahai-library.org&limit=500&offset=0
129. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=resource+guide+bahai
130. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_history
131. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Root
132. http://librivox.org/the-bahai-revelation-by-thornton-chase/
133. http://myweb.wwu.edu/karlberg/publications.html
134. http://watsongregory.homestead.com/files/
135. http://whoisbahaullah.com/explore/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=1&Itemid=50
136. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bahai-library.com
137. http://www.h-net.org/logsearch/index.cgi?type=keyword&order=relevance&list=All+lists&hitlimit=25&smonth=00&syear=1989&emonth=11&eyear=2004&phrase=baha%27i
138. http://www.archive.org/details/orientalroseorte00fordrich
139. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Holley%2CHorace.%22
140. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Bahai%20Faith%22
141. http://www.bahaindex.com/en/component/bookmarks/?mode=0&catid=36&search=*
142. http://www.google.ca/search?q=bahai&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
143. http://www.google.ca/search?q=ridvan+2009&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
144. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a904825203~frm=titlelink
145. http://www.onecountry.org/listreview.html
146. http://www.scribd.com/tag/bahai
147. http://links.religionsnet.com/bahailinks.html
148. http://www.teachingandprojects.com/meansandmaterials.htm
149. http://bahai-library.com/mboya_holy_mariner_study
150. http://bahaisonline.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=1&id=62&Itemid=2/
151. http://messagesbahaiworldcentre.blogspot.com
152. http://www.bahaihistorycaribbean and encyc. articles

SITES TO CHECK ANNUALLY

1. List of scholars' websites in sidebar at http://www.abs.org.nz/
2. http://www.commongroundgroup.net/downloads/
3. iranian.com
4. http://www.palabrapublications.com/downloads
5. http://papers.ssrn.com
6. http://gulfc.haifa.ac.il and http://bahai.haifa.ac.il/
7. http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/
8. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/bsr
9. http://www.bahai-studies.ca
10. juxta
11. encyclopedia iranica
12. h-bahai occasional papers
13. ruhiresources.org
14. http://www-instruct.nmu.edu/~rclarken/
15. http://www.jeunestreet.com/publications/
16. check various scholars' sites from /links

LATER

1. change all [sup] to [span class="fn"] and have "fn" = "vertical-align:text-bottom;font-size:75%"
2. have id.tpl doc size include PDF filesize
3. un-italicize "Music Reviews"
4. program Author Affiliation section, for things like PhD, University of New Brunswick, or His Honor. Add Hoonaard's. Search for "author note". Search for Counsellor's names, add "Continental Counsellor"; ditto "Member UHJ". Make separate author bio database table, allowing for change to data. Get old bios from ABS conference programs, solas PDFs, new BSR site, dialogue, and bios at the end of the new BSR articles. Add authors table and make author name clickable; add author bios; check affiliation
5. combine two "edited by" lines, e.g. in http://bahai-library.com/danesh_fazel_search_values
6. list Lights of Guidance comps separately under Compilations collection
7. http://www.alexa.com/site/linksin/bahai-library.com
8. http://bahaistudies.net/bahaiworks/ and check Herrick
9. http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol9_1/cover9_1.htm and http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/
10. http://www.miscellanie.com/pdfdocs/index.html
11. search-and-replace database for links to Writings, including internal anchors. Or program this into htaccess.
12. import new Leiden List into wiki markup, check Leiden List files "hidden words" and "aqdas" and replace the links to the Writings contained in those two files, and see about adding more excerpts as separate items
13. http://www.google.ca/search?tbs=bks%3A1&tbo=1&q=bahai
14. Take out Tablet Title from Study Guide collection output
15. See about taking out custom outputting for Study Guides
16. split crossreferences, e.g. #1354
17. fix book ToCs like point http://www.bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/gwb/contents.html and http://www.bahai-library.com/writings/bahaullah/gwb/index.html http://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_gleanings_writings_bahaullah
18. http://bahai-library.com/bafa/usa.htm Contemporary Bios to link to
19. http://bahai-library.com/Personal sort, retitle personal pages as Perosnal Page: Name
20. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qLEA8vbf-YcJ:www.abs.org.nz/bibliography/babism/babism_bibliography_european.rtf+ojbs+abs&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
21. http://abs.org.nz/ABS_Publishing_2008.htm
22. http://abs.org.nz/ABS_Publishing_2007.htm
23. fix header view for Revealed/Written, and "First Published In" if no publisher given, e.g. haddad message from acca
24. http://necademic.blogspot.com/
25. http://bahai-library.com/Translation-provisional
26. http://bahai-library.com/new/ lights of irfan, are all short items classified as "essays"
27. http://www.scribd.com/search?cat=redesign&q=bahai&x=0&y=0
28. http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_lawh_hague_bwc link both lawh-hague's
29. http://bahai-library.com/fazel_danesh_reason_revelation grab missing
30. http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=bahai&go=Go
31. http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchresults.aspx?q=bahai
32. http://bahai-library.com/browne_materials_study_babi
33. http://bahai-library.com/?file=personal_sen_mcglinn get sen's online items, e.g. http://senmcglinn.wordpress.com/articles-online/ and sidebar links
34. http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/2114
35. http://messagesbahaiworldcentre.blogspot.com/2009/12/4-january-2009-universal-house-of.html
36. http://brli.squarespace.com/
37. http://brli.squarespace.com/documentation/
38. get iranica.com missing charts and images
39. http://members.cox.net/bahai.libraries.archives/writings_on_archives.htm
40. http://www.elibron.com/maps/?msg_id=10034502 download maps
41. http://www.scribd.com/doc/17233261/Fundamentalism-in-the-Contemporary-US-Bahai-Community
42. Replace 'If PDF does not display below, click' with 'Download:'
43. In +CHAPTER view, enable internal Contents linking for "View All," and make sure Collection is showing in footer when viewing individual chapters
44. Fix wiki links, in e.g. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisons_d%27adoration_baha%27ies

MUCH LATER

Import William Collins Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-2003. Author has already given permission and has provided a complete database, just awaiting importing. Estimated time: 5-10 hours to migrate data + 10-20 hours to program various user interfaces + 10-15 hours to program contributor interfaces + 5-10 hours to add various security and back-up features necessary for a collaborative system + 10-20 hours for things I don't yet know are needed = 40-75 hours

Add feature to retain archive copy of every incoming file, and then have subsequent edits of that file save the file to a new field. Then add an admin feature to replace new edits with old ones, in case a new edit is incorrect or has lost data. This is especially important for people who edit long files using a browser that truncates them in the text area box. Add second table to database for multiple-editor backup. This will function as follows: anytime a user edits a file that he/she was the most recent editor of, the changes are saved directly to the main database table. But anytime a user edits a file that was last edited by someone else, the old version is written to a backup table and the new changes are saved to the main table. Thus no one can mess up a file without the option of its being restored.

Correct data entry for Reviews collection. Need a separate field for title and author of book being reviewed, or some other consistent formatting.

check web stats for incoming links to old html pages; redirect them.