Ravali Kruthiventi (Work Log)

June 2016

06/2016 - Worked on:

• Setting up wiki, including
  • coloring the wiki links, headers, etc
  • Adding access limitations, confirmation queues - access rules
  • adding extensions that everyone needed

• Setting up a database for merging our patent data from the Harvard dataverse and the patent data that the McNair Center collected from 2010 - 2015
• Setting up tables as needed for other projects
• Worked on the test blog site to see how Wordpress can be messed with.

July 2016

07/2016 - Worked on:

• Setting up the assignees data from the USPTO into a database into tables that Amir and Marcela can use.
• worked on cleaning up the patent data and databases (renaming, typecasting, etc)
• Currently working on the blog.

Week 2

07/14/2016 - Worked on the blog header 07/15/2016 - Worked on and created my research plan, added html to header. The blocks are now there, they require styling to deal with mobile interfaces.

Week 3

07/18/2016 - Blog

• Tried to add two posts per category - this seems to require the creation of a new widget\layout. Abandoning as it is likely to take too much time.
  • Possible future revisit
• Determined how to add custom widgets to the sidebar - was able to add a basic box to the sidebar

07/19/2016 - Blog

• Added custom widgets to the sidebar of the blog
• Changed the fonts, separators, footers.
• Added social media links to the header, rather than the footer (default wordpress location is the footer)

07/20/2016 - Blog

• Had a quick review of the blog, and uncovered some issues that are apparent on other screen resolutions. Worked on spacing issues on the blog. EOD Update - some spacing issues exist. Will be inserting a table into the header to make the spacing better.
• Brainstormed changes to uspto assignees data. Will begin work on removing the duplicates tomorrow.

07/21/2016 - Blog, Assignees Data, LinkedIn Account Creation

• Worked on removing duplicates from the assignees data.
• Working on wrapping issues
• Agenda:
  • Fix spacing, insert table into header for lower screen resolutions
  • Set up account for Dylan
  • Get sample content and uploads from Dylan
  • Fix header colors and patterns
  • Get logo up
  • Set up links to Baker and the McNair Center
  • Tie it all up together