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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.