Interesting....and timely

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Posted by Rod M on August 28, 2003 at 16:35:11

In Reply to: Engineers WANTED for open source app! posted by anevsky on August 28, 2003 at 14:47:23:

We've actually been working on doing a similar thing for quite a while. It keeps getting back burnered, due to some technical issues and questions about data integrity and all that. But, I'm almost to the point where I'm going to get time to get going on doing some coding for it. Amazon released a new web interface recently that would simplify a lot of the data entry, but I have concerns about using it. Making sure names are spelled right and that the data is correct is a pain! With the Amazon or a central db, you can grab their data and then add to it. It should make data entry quicker and more consistent. A second possibiliy is using the freedb data. It's a spin off from the old CDDB project. Since many records are the same as the CDs, it makes sense to incorporate both vinyl and CD into one db.

Our motivation was primarily music reviews and recommended lists. What struck me was if we did this, then we could also allow people to tag items as owned or for their wish list or their recommended list etc. As a hosted app with a client, the data could also be local to the user or they could just use the web UI and not need a local db.

The schema looks well thought through. The problem is Classical and also having Pop fit in easily. I assume the State table might be the in print/oop, right? As a pure web app, a user id would be needed for personal data. If owned, the condition etc., if wanted, then just an item id. What about duplicate copies or something with different conditions?

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Topic - Engineers WANTED for open source app! - anevsky 14:47:23 08/28/03 (16)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - reverber 11:32:34 08/29/03 (2)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - xyc05 05:34:14 10/18/03 (1)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - Rod M 15:50:57 08/29/03 (0)

OK, some more issues.... - Penguin 17:48:43 08/28/03 (4)

Re: OK, some more issues.... - anevsky 21:48:29 08/28/03 (0)

Re: OK, some more issues.... - Rod M 18:56:06 08/28/03 (2)

This could be a service only available to contributors :-) - Penguin 05:04:56 08/29/03 (1)

Druther have the Yoyo ;-) (nt) - Ivan303 05:59:06 08/29/03 (0)

why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - BillyBuck 17:05:02 08/28/03 (1)

Re: why not do it as a Web site and/or service rather than a standalone app? - anevsky 21:56:33 08/28/03 (0)

Interesting....and timely - Rod M 16:35:11 08/28/03 (2)

Re: Interesting....and timely - anevsky 17:20:25 08/28/03 (1)

Re: Interesting....and timely - Rod M 19:02:20 08/28/03 (0)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - korneluk 15:37:01 08/28/03 (1)

Re: Engineers WANTED for open source app! - anevsky 17:01:59 08/28/03 (0)

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Interesting....and timely - Rod M 16:35:11 08/28/03 (2)

Re: Interesting....and timely - anevsky 17:20:25 08/28/03 (1)

Re: Interesting....and timely - Rod M 19:02:20 08/28/03 (0)

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