[pdb-discuss] Web-app demo running

Fri Aug 10 23:30:45 UTC 2007

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:15 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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...
> 
> David/Jon: could you point me to any docs (or even code) detailing this 
> API. Would you also be able to give me early access to test/demo server 
> (or perhaps just provide information sufficient for me to write a 
> 'stubbed' implementation for my own testing).

I'm working on getting this opened up right now, and will get back to
you shortly about...

> >> 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...
> 
> If you have got a web api this is probably secondary but I wonder if 
> Yves (onlist and in cc) would be interested in having a go. Again more 
> details of the sql structure would be useful -- could you provide a link 
> to your create_db.sql file?

Yet again, still closed up...waiting on us...

> >> 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! 
> 
> Don't worry about that side of things I just need access to the data 
> (i.e. Work, Artist, Performance ...) -- I have already got code to do 
> the pd calculations.

Great

> >> 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.
> 
> Sounds great and if you could provide any docs or access to the 
> demo/test server that would enable us to get coding from this end :)
> 
> ~rufus

Working on it and will let you guys know shortly...

Jon

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