<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>PlanOfAction</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:28:28</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 17:02:05</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 17:00:54</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 16:59:56</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 16:52:40</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 16:51:52</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 16:51:34</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2008-10-03 16:46:21</date><authorinitials>DennisNorris</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><para>PlanOfAction </para><section><title>Produce a detailed specification of what we have now</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Rosemary to prepare a description of the current panel database </para></listitem><listitem><para>Rosemary to come up with suggestions for improvements! </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Work out what we need</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>see the <ulink url="https://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/methods/PlanOfAction/methods/DatabaseWishList#">DatabaseWishList</ulink> </para></listitem><listitem><para>Where possible we should mock up screens. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Arrange for consultants to advise us.</title><para>There doesn't seem to be anybody in Cambridge who looks suitable. These guys are from Bedford: <ulink url="http://www.colink.co.uk/index.asp"/> </para></section><section><title>Possible solutions</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>For most of our requirements Access is up to the job, it's well supported, cheap for us,  and lots of people know how to use it. </para></listitem><listitem><para>But, if we want more than a few people to have access to the database, we probably want at least part of it too run through a web-interface e.g. </para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>for the front office to check which volunteers are with which testers </para></listitem><listitem><para>For testers to enter their own details </para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem><listitem><para>It would be best if the data itself was in SQL on the servers. </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section><section><title>Contract</title><itemizedlist><listitem><para>Developers will need to sign up to MRC DP and security requirements. </para></listitem><listitem><para>System should be well documented and maintainable by people other than the designers. </para></listitem><listitem><para>We need instructions for how to modify the system </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></article>