[okfn-labs] Open Literature platform

Sun Feb 10 15:32:40 UTC 2013

Rufus,

As per the conversation last Tuesday. I've been working on the Wordpress 
plugin for Open Literature and have it working as a dumb JSON RPC server 
as per our original conversation.

The GET takes a short url and returns the stored text at that location 
with the text parameter.

The POST operation takes the author, title and text parameters and 
stores the file in the uploads directory in Wordpress.

I'm wondering if we would not add an operation parameter to the GET so 
that we can return either the complete text or an index (either of all 
authors or texts by author).

The other thing I was thinking about last night is investigating Xapian 
to provide the platform with a full text search engine. I know that 
MySQL/Postgres can do this as well but think it is better to have a 
proper engine to avoid performance issues on the blog. Apart from 
quickly getting head back around it and linking the ids together, the 
big thing would be to test al the operations to make sure that it runs 
the relevant update.

I guess that the user issues can be partially ignored until we try to 
put in the annotations.

Kind regards,

Iain