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Welcome to the Help pages for Sinopia, the LD4P2 Sandbox Environment.

How to get help

There are several ways to get help or report an issue. Use the one that works best for you:

• Post on the #sinopia Slack channel in the LD4 workspace (join the workspace)
• To ask your question privately, email [email protected]
• To report an issue directly to the development team, add an issue in github
• For questions related to cataloging, send an email to the Sinopia catalogers listserv

Latest Releases

Release 0.2.1 Notes

Release 0.2.0 brings us to Milestone 2 "Profile Dress Rehearsal". Features include:

• Create profiles in Profile Editor and load into Linked Data Editor.
• Specify lookups via Questioning Authority in Profile Editor, and do lookups in the Linked Data Editor.

There's a demonstration Profile that shows how various Profile configurations will look in the Linked Data Editor. Click the Raw button and download the JSON. Then go to the Sinopia Linked Data Editor, click Import Profile, and upload the JSON file.

Full 0.2.0 release notes

What's Next

Work on Milestone 3 "Profile Opening Night" is in progress. Milestone 3 includes:

• User authentication
• Uploading Profiles to an "available profiles" menu. View mockups of profile loading workflow showing how a profile owner would add a new profile to Sinopia for use in the Linked Data Editor, and update an existing profile by uploading a new version.

Milestone 3 details

View details of all 5 milestones in the Technical Project Plan

User Acceptance Testing

Planned user acceptance tests: Sinopia Work Cycle 1 User Acceptance Tests, in a Google sheet for easy sorting and for printing to use as a manual testing checklist.

Latest demo Profile, useful for learning and testing: ConfigurationDemoFuller.json.

Here's a quick reference to the configurations that are found in that demo Key to ConfigurationDemoFuller.json