Hi there, I'm writing to ask about a programmatic mechanism for sharing of notebooks and worksheets. The group I work in is currently investigating the Sage system (specifically through a fork/branch of FEMhub) as a mechanism for running analysis on large datasets.
One of our goals, though, is to be able to provide our scripts (worksheets) to others as learning tools, as well as to record what we did to construct a given plot. In the past, some users have done this via standard source control practices, with scripts run from the command line, typically without much interactive input. However, the notebook environment is exciting for a number of reasons I don't have to enumerate here. :) An aspect of the Sage notebook I personally find particularly exciting is the import/export mechanism -- being able to feed in a URL to import a worksheet from the web, and being able to export to a single file. The underlying mechanism aside, this alone is pretty awesome for an object as data-rich as a worksheet. What I think would really make this transformative, for our group at least, would be the ability to push (and pull, which is already included in Sage) from a metadata-enhanced repository -- something like a "SageForge." An extension to or wrapper around the export_worksheet(...) method would likely be able to handle this. We've handled passing scripts around mostly via a pastebin mechanism -- which simply does not scale. I was wondering if there was any interest in this kind of "forge" system -- or, perhaps I'm a bit behind the times, and such a thing already exists. I've explored a bit of the space of document management systems, and it seems that there are a few Django-based projects ( http://code.google.com/p/django-dms/ for instance) in the works that can handle programmatic upload/download of metadata- enhanced documents, which would be very interesting, and might be able to handle worksheet uploads. But, again, I'm relatively new to Sage, so I'm still figuring out the way the behind-the-scenes aspects all work -- so perhaps there are difficulties or subtleties I don't see yet. Thanks very much for listening! -Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
