The ODM Steering Group or Working Groups have identified the following features and tools for development.
See the Roadmap project for progress on the roadmap. Add new items or discuss on the discussion thread. Issues with "future" tag are discussed for addition to the roadmap.
Requirements for future tools and features:
- Support for English and French - initially for the data model and then other documentation.
- Open and cross platform - Tools to support the data model will be generated using or support open software. The objective is to create pseudo-code that can form the basis to program code in R or Python. Rules as pseudo-code allow development teams to generate consistent data applications in other program platforms (i.e. MS 365 or ArcGIS).
- Data mapping methods - a collection of methods to: Read in data from templates into a database (SQLite supported). Conversion from "long" format to "wide" format.
- Data cleaning methods - rules for cleaning raw ODM data. T
- Visualization tools - basic plots to visualize wastewater signals. Simple visualization tools can be part of vignettes to show how to analyze wastewater data.
- Transformation functions - functions to create derived variables and aggreagations. i.e. moving averages.
- Open, public data examples within the repository - Example data to build and test common tools and demonstrate ODM compliant data format.
Documentation that including tutorials, how-to guides, technical references and explanations. See Divio documentation approach.
- Tutorials - learning-oriented.
- How-to guides - problem-oriented.
- Explanation - understanding-oriented.
- Reference - information-oriented.
- Several presentations have introduced the OMD. Let's make these available.
- Peer-review description with DOI reference.
- Consider a website that organizes document for a wide audience of users.
- Ensure Steering Committee and Working Groups have representation from a range discplines and regions.
- Add a code of conduct.