[pdb-discuss] public domain registry: simple semi-wiki implementation

[Rufus Pollock]

I have been thinking quite a bit about how to get a simple working 
prototype of our public domain registry up. I've had some contact with 
the FFII's gauss project:

   http://gauss.ffii.org/

which has put a lot of software patents in a wiki using the 'virtual' 
plugin for moinmoin_[1]. Having looked at that I thought that we could 
try doing the same with the registry. The major drawback of this 
approach is that while comments may be created in the wiki the 
underlying data (in our case the work metadata) is *not* editable from 
the wiki interface.

Summary
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1. All metadata in a backend database
2. Presented through the wiki front-end
3. Comments and other stuff can be added through the wiki

What do people think?

Regards,

Rufus

[1] See http://project.knowledgeforge.net/gauss/svn/trunk/ for the 
source. In particular for examples of virtual plugins see 
src/moin/plugin/virtual/