[pdb-discuss] Web-app demo running

Thu Aug 9 18:33:35 UTC 2007

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 11:01 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > This looks cool! Congrats! Are the public domain rules worked out...
> > 
> > Ok guys, so, have been working with the team here on pdwiki, and we have
> > figured out a change in the project.
> > 
> > We are looking to make the canadian component of the site a separate
> > site that relies upon the service we are developing, called
> > wikibiblio...
> 
> This sounds great -- exactly the kind of refactoring I think we were 
> discussing back at the July meeting.
> 
> > It would be great to fold your efforts on the technical site into
> > ours...because of this change, I can open up this service component we
> > are building, based upon drupal.
> > 
> > Would you be interested in this?
> 
> 100%. We could then really focus on our web part just being a front end 
> to your service (our current approach was to be a front end to 
> musicbrainz but I am increasingly concerned about their lack of 
> distinction between a release (an album), a work and a 
> performance/recording of that work -- though this something that might 
> get fixed by their new ontology).

Yes, this would be brilliant!

> If I understand what you are suggesting correctly what this would mean is:
> 
> 1. All data get stored in wikibiblio.
> 
> 2. Other projects pull out that data to do specific stuff (such as list 
> the public domain recordings for their jurisdiction -- this is what our 
> front-end would do) and point people back to wikibiblio if they want to 
> make an edit.

Exactly! So, then there can be more content and/or jurisdiction-focused
front-ends...

> This seems like a great approach to me. Stuff we could do to help:
> 
> 1. Write a python wrapper around whatever web api or data dump format 
> you give out from wikibiblio (we'd use this to pull data from you -- and 
> perhaps also to write data if that were supported). I'd be happy to 
> start on this right away.

Cool, I'm cc'ing david strauss who can talk about this more. We have a
basic read api, but will need some help with a write api...

> 2. Write code to dump whatever data we have into wikibiblio (again just 
> needs details of the upload API or dump format you require).

Yes, a good generic rdf dumper and importer would be brilliant...

> 3. Continue writing out front-end for EU public domain stuff. This would 
> not only show-off the benefits of this componentized approach but would 
> no doubt help find bugs etc.

This is great! Yes, David, what would be needed to get an EU pd module
in-place? Yes, agree! 

> Let me know if I have understood this correct and, if so I'll get 
> involved with the web api stuff so I can start coding up a python wrapper :)
> 
> ~rufus

Yes, you have totally understood this correctly! This is getting
exciting...I am moving to get wikibiblio opened up as fast as possible,
which means I need to write some emails of confirmation and then move
forward.

Jon

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