Series

A Series is an organizational component made up multiple stories. The primary use is as an organizational mechanism for ongoing coverage or group coverage on a similar or singular topic.

Series can have associated:

• Stories (And by extension, Facets and Image Assets, Document Assets, Audio Assets, Video Assets)
• Notes
• Tasks
• Events (& Calendar)
• Simple Images, Simple Documents (images and documents used for the Series but not intended for publishing)

Series can be collaborate on with a network or specific partners from a network.

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Series

TK MOCKUP

Considerations

The initial version of the platform will focus on one main utility for series:

• creating connections between relevant stories to better facilitate cohesive editing, management and use of shared assets.

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Fields

Series

name

• Should allow for diacritic marks, spaces and hyphenation.

series_description

• Short profile description.

logo

• Image representative of the Series to attach to all public profiles.

owner

• The User who created the Series.

organization

• Organization of the User that created the Series.

team

• Users directly affiliated with the Series. (TK Functionality: Users in team fields will receive notifications regarding updates, edits, etc)

creation_date

• The date and time the Series was created on the platform.

sensitive

• A Series marked sensitive will not appear in dashboards of Users who are not the owner of the Series or on the team of the Series.

collaborate

• Indicate whether a Series is collaborative.

collaborate_with

• Select Organizations from Network memberships to include in the collaboration.

archived

• Archiving a Series, removes it from the dashboard without deleting any of the content. (Functionality to consider, should archiving freeze editing of all fields?)

notes

• Notes associated with a Series that are viewable to all team Users of the Series.

website

• Distinct website for the Series or direct URL to the page the Series lives at online.

discussion

• The discussion and comments associated with a Series. All Users can participate (TK Functionality: Team Users will get notifications for new comments. )