- 🇺🇸United States m.stenta
I'm going to close this - let's move discussion to the forum for and open PRs for reviewing specific implementations. It may make sense to start this in contrib either way.
I think a key to any record keeping system is to make the data entry stupid simple to do in real time as the action is performed in the field.
I think QR codes could be a useful tool for this. I can envision a system that works something like this:
- A utility to generate and print QR codes to attach to each plant / animal / piece of equipment / location etc. This should be fairly simple since there are modules / web services that can do this already.
- When logging some record, simply use your phone to scan the code. This will bring up a contextual menu of actions to log. Ideally the log would take just a few quick taps. (GPS info could be useful also to locate the area you're in?)
Heres a few modules that already do stuff with QR codes:
https://www.drupal.org/project/google_qr_code →
https://www.drupal.org/project/qr_codes →
https://www.drpal.org/project/ekaay
One issue is that at this time, direct image capture in ios safari is not possible. It does support uploading an image via a file input field, but this process is too cumbersome to be useful for this objective.
HTML5's getUserMedia would work, and I think android may already support this. Hopefully IOS will soon too, but otherwise a native app would probably be necessary to make it work well.
Here is a demo of QR code scanning in browser: http://shinydemos.com/qr-code/
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I'm going to close this - let's move discussion to the forum for and open PRs for reviewing specific implementations. It may make sense to start this in contrib either way.