Collaboration

There are a growing number of features that allow the users to work collaboratively inside the Spacialist software.

Comments

User have the ability to leave comments on every entity and can discuss ideas or problems directly on the data itself.

Image of an example of a discussion inside the comments

Bibliography

Users can reference Bibliography from the managed Bibliography directly on every entity[1].

[1] First released in version 0.11

Attribute Comments, Bibliography & Certainty

Attributes are the most molecular data inside the Spacialist software. The users can set attributes "Uncertain" when the data source is not reliable and needs discussion and/or further research. This uncertainty can be discussed by using comments and/or bibliography references directly at the respective attribute. If an attribute is marked as uncertain (!), has comments (💬) or has a bibliography reference (🔖) attached can be seen directly in the entity overview (A). Clicking on any of the symbols opens the window (B) where you can change the certainty, while optionally leaving a comment or add a quotation to the attribute, which is then seen inside the References Tab (see A).

(A) Image of the entity overview showing the icons representing the Comments, Bibliography or Certainty

(B) Image of the certainty modal, presenting the Comment, Bibliography and Certainty sections

Metadata

You can add additional metadata to every entity, using the metadata tab. Here you can add a license, and a description of the entity. Currently the creators and the editors are shown in the tab [2], in the future there should be the option to add furthor 'authors' to the entities, that did not actively work on said entity.

Image of the metadata tab

[2] Introduced in version 0.11