Pleiades Reporter

Create and disseminate social media posts on Pleiades activity.

Currently designed to post to the Pleiades account on botsinbox.net, which is a GoToSocial instance.

Roadmap:

• Find and report on new records added to Zotero

  • Use Zotero API to get records changed since a particular version and date
  • Cache the last version and date checked, so each time we run we start from there
  • Handle Zotero API backoff and retry after instructions
  • Create formatted reports for each new Zotero record (including citation)

• Create a script to run checks periodically (see now scripts/looper.py)

• Create a textual UI to the check process to control it and review possible reports

• Post reports via the Mastodon API to the Pleiades gazetteer Fediverse account

• Find and report on new places in Pleiades

• Find and report new Pleiades blog posts

  • Atom feed: https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/collector/atom

• Find and report new Pleiades events

  • Atom feed: https://pleiades.stoa.org/events/upcoming-events.atom

• Find and report on Pleiades data quality

• Find and report on new and newly closed Pleiades development issues

• Introduce Channel classes, one for each dissemination channel

  • GoToSocialChannel (uses the Mastodon API)
  • Facebook (since we have a legacy presence there)
    • Support only sending some reports to some channels (e.g., here blog posts is probably all we want)