On Tue 29 May 2012, Kake kake@earth.li wrote:
Hello! On the train the other day I had some ideas about the way data input could work for a "last verified" field for OpenGuides. I drew a thing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/7278918078/
This would result in three pieces of data, which will be stored if and only if the "re-confirm existence?" tickybox is ticked:
the date on which the existence of the business described was last checked (it should be possible to give either a specific day or just the month)
the method by which it was checked (free text, e.g. "phoned them up", but with a tickybox or two to make it easy to give standard reasons such as "went past and saw it open" - a tick in this box would be turned into text by the code before storing in the database)
the person who checked it (not explicitly entered on the form, but taken from the username of the person performing the edit - see above, this only happens if they explicitly choose to "re-confirm existence")
Anyone got any thoughts on the above?
I don't have much to add but I think this is great! :-)
I'm assuming it will be mostly standard reasons, select from
* phoned them up * walked past & saw it * saw an email/blogpost/tweet/etc from them * ...other (free text)
I can't think of any other ways you could check the existence of a business, to be honest, but maybe I'm just unimaginative...
I wonder if we need to have some way of saying whether it was just the existence that was checked or whether other details (e.g. opening hours) were checked too... but that might get complicated.
Jx