Morsulus Software Agenda

I’m gearing up to take on the Morsulus office in the next couple of months, and will be posting here about software development activity in three broad areas:

  1. The toolchain that Morsulus uses to maintain the master version of the O&A database currently runs on the officer’s personal computer; I’d like to migrate this so it runs in the cloud.
  2. The O&A website mostly looks and works the same way it did when it was first written thirty years ago; I’d like to add a modern web interface while retaining the existing UI as a “classic mode” option for folks who are accustomed to it.
  3. The LoARs are authored as structured data but then published as very simple HTML files; in the long term, I’d like to see a modern presentation that made it easier to browse and search, and cross-linking to related entries, to the O&A, and to emblazons from OSCAR and the legacy archives.

Those are listed in intended sequence; I’ve already started work with the back-end Morsulus toolchain in order to enable the office transition, and hope to be able to turn my attention to the O&A website in a few months, and to the LoARs within a year, if things go well.

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