On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:14:12 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote: > IIRC, we also discerned that one of the first tasks would be the > establishment of a backend database from the existing links > and categories (which I would like to see redefined too). The URLs would > need culled and organized: I don't think this would > be a terribly difficult first step, maybe a good Perl script can do it ? > Is PW not a Perlmeister ?? ;) RDF! (rdf, rdf, rdf, ...) http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Full disclosure: You may want to take this with a pinch of salt due to favourite hammer syndrome; I currently justify my existence by developing a large-scale (GPL'd of course) RDF server. Good points: * this is exactly the kind of thing RDF is designed for * nice query syntax (like SQL but better) * very fashionable * interoperability (metadata can be used, and partly understood, by other tools because RDF has inherent semantics) Bad points: * RDF/XML syntax is horrific (but you hardly ever deal with it) * not famialiar to people who know LAMP systems * a bit more resource intensive than PHP+MySQL * RDF tools not as mature as relational databases You wouldn't want to use RDF for things like user comments and reviews, but its ideal for metadata-y things. I could help by providing things like web form -> RDF/XML CGI scripts and RDF knowledge-base hosting for betas. - Steve
