Hi. Le mercredi 11 février 2009 à 14:55 +0000, Enrico Zini a écrit : > Hello, > > After testing the idea and the prototype with my presentation at Fosdem, > it's time to announce DDE (http://wiki.debian.org/DDE), Debian Data > Export.
Very intersting... much easier to retrieve "common" requests responses than writing an SQL query ;) > SNIP > * The solution > > DDE is a way to make it simple to publish and download data. The aim is > to be able to access all sorts of Debian information without worrying > about data formats, protocols and access control, and to make it easy to > discover what data is available. > > DDE exports data as a big virtual tree. You can pick a node in the tree > by its URL and download all the data that it contains, in a format of > your choice: currently it supports JSON/JSONP, YAML, CSV and Python > pickled objects. > One of the criticisms I could make (and made live at your presentation @FOSDEM), is the lack of semantics (as in Semantic Web W3C standards) there (somehow what I mentioned also in http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2009/02/10/udd-swim-flossmetrics-facts-databases-about-libre-software-distributions-going-semantic/ for the curious ones). I suppose I should try and propose an RDF export plugin for DDE to test and complement more precisely my criticism. Note that SWIM @ Mandriva (see my blog post above) proposes some kind of similar service, where the use of ontologies supposedly help integrate it with desktop tools (KDE 4.2 nepomuk-enabled ones). In any case, very interesting tool, which I need to understand more deeply, I guess. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER <olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
