[pdb-discuss] update on progress: db to wiki code nearly done

Sat Jun 24 09:22:10 UTC 2006

Nathan Lewis wrote:
> Hi Rufus,
> 
> I have just singed up for a knowledge forge account. My account name is nathan. Could you add me as a subversion user?

You are now an administrator on the pdw (Public Domain Works Database) 
project which gives you full read/write access to subversion and 
everything else.

> I will try using python, though I wonder if we wouldn't be better with ruby.

I'm open to suggestions on this but my preference is definitely for 
python (and the OKF machine is much more python oriented, e.g. it has 
moinmoin, mod_python etc installed).

Regards,

Rufus

PS: re IM i'll be on irc (freenode.net) as rgrp quite a bit

> 
> On Friday, June 23, 2006, at 02:14PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's great Nathan. Perhaps you would like to take a stab at parsing 
>>this file which contains a list of composers and their birth/death dates:
>>
>>http://project.knowledgeforge.net/pdw/Composers.txt
>>
>>It would be neat to have a script which extracts composers and puts them 
>>in the db using the domain model. Domain model is at:
>>
>>http://project.knowledgeforge.net/pdw/svn/trunk/src/pdw/dm.py
>>
>>Example of loading stuff up RecordingWriter(object) in:
>>
>>http://project.knowledgeforge.net/pdw/svn/trunk/src/pdw/saparse.py
>>
>>If you prefer to use perl go ahead though this might be a good occassion 
>>to try out python ;)
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Rufus
>>
>>PS: we also need to improve our heuristic identification of the same 
>>person (with slightly different names). See
>>
>>{{{
>>def get_existing_artist(self, fullName)
>>}}}
>>
>>in saparse.py for current stab at this that just matches on fullName. 
>>For example we have Gounod from British Library but from Composers.txt:
>>{{{
>>Charles (Francois) GOUNOD, * 1818 Jun 17, + 1893 Oct 18
>>}}}
>>
>>PPS: I've just committed dbtowiki.py and am going to stop for tonight 
>>now but will start work on final parts of wiki stuff early tomorrow and 
>>should have something up and functional by 0900-1100 uk time
>>
>>Nathan Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Rufus,
>>>
>>>I am online now and can try to help out if you like.
>>>
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Nathan
>>>
>>>
>>>On Jun 23, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dear Tom,
>>>>
>>>>Just to let you know how things are going.
>>>>
>>>>All the html -> db code is finished and i have completed the db to 
>>>>wiki code though some testing still remains to be done. After that all 
>>>>i have got to do is deploy to the production server and mess around 
>>>>with the wiki template a bit. ETA is now 10am tomorrow morning (Rio 
>>>>time 4am) which should give you time to check it all out and ask 
>>>>questions (if you want to chat on irc i'll try and be on freenode as 
>>>>rgrp).
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Rufus
>>>>
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