DiscourseDB v0.4 is available featuring edX forum data import

[Oliver Ferschke]

I am happy to announce that the first implementation of the DiscourseDB object model is now available on GitHub. [1][2]

The database schema is now auto-generated from the object model via hibernate and a data access layer based on Spring Data JPA allows low-level communication with the database. A high-level API for end users is currently under development.

The currently available pre-release version of DiscourseDB is v0.4  The developer version is 0.5-SNAPSHOT.

Beyond that, a first data converter is now available that imports edX discussion forum data into DiscourseDB [3][4]. Documentation of the mapping between edX json and DiscourseDB is forthcoming.

[1] https://github.com/DiscourseDB/discoursedb-model

[2] https://github.com/DiscourseDB/discoursedb-model/releases/tag/0.4

[3] https://github.com/DiscourseDB/discoursedb-io-edx

[4] https://github.com/DiscourseDB/discoursedb-io-edx/releases/tag/0.4