[tei-council] Shopping cart tryout

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

Hi Elena,

You're not alone in finding the language disturbing: Lou and Christian 
had similar comments in earlier iterations. David's right I think about 
the "shopping cart" part: that just is the language. But the customer 
thing is the result of a slightly different problem: we are going to be 
using this for three different things, conference registration, 
subscription/membership, and selling the print guidelines--all of which 
are linked (i.e. because of member discounts).

Unfortunately, whatever term we use has to fit all three cases, since it 
is not cost effective to use three different specialised services to 
handle each type of transaction (there are individual services that 
specialise in each type of sale, but subscribing to 3 different ones 
looked quite expensive in the initial research I did, and of course, you 
then end up with the problem of multiple vendor databases.

If anybody has a brilliant solution, I'm all ears!
-dan

Elena Pierazzo wrote:
> Hi, Tried it and seems intuitive and easy.
> A couple of remarks:
>
> 1. The website is very slow
> 2. The affiliation field for the Conference tag is too short (32 chars 
> if I got it right) and 'Centre for Computing in the Humanities' 
> doesn't fit.
> 3. In general I find a bit disturbing the commercial vocabulary 
> ('shopping cart', 'customer') as when you register for a conference 
> you are not really purchasing goods.
>
> Elena
> On 12 Aug 2009, at 21:43, Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are very close to launching a shopping cart for online conference
>> registration and subscription. I'd appreciate volunteers for a dry run.
>> Here's the development URL: http://zencart2.kakelbont.homelinux.net/
>>
>> You need a username and password to access the URL: /u guest /p tseug
>>
>> I won't give any more instructions: let me know how well you can see
>> what you need to do and whether or not it works. An error arises at the
>> very last stage of a purchase or registration because the email is not
>> set up on this test server. We are particularly interested in the
>> conference registration, since that has got to open very soon.
>>
>> There are other ways of doing things, so let me know if this is not 
>> clear.
>>
>> -dan
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Daniel Paul O'Donnell
>> Associate Professor of English
>> University of Lethbridge
>>
>> Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
>> Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of 
>> America
>> President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société 
>> pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
>> Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project 
>> (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
>>
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> Dr Elena Pierazzo
> Research Associate
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities
> King's College London
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>
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>
>
>
>

-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)

Vox: +1 403 329-2377
Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental)
Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/