data!

[William Stein]

Mike,

We now have an official "data partition" and account on sage.math.
The user name is lmfdb, so you should be able to login to sage.math
and do:

ssh lmfdb@localhost

to access the account (if anybody else wants access, email Tom
Boothby). The data subdirectory contains data. You can view it all
at:

http://sage.math.washington.edu:8088/

or the raw files at

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/lmfdb/data/

There is some structure to the subdirectories, as you'll see if you
look at some of the other examples.

The interface itself of course looks very icky still. Harald -- want
to think about making it prettier?

--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

[William Stein]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Harald Schilly
<harald....@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, i was sick and now i'm better and looked into it. yes, i can make it nicer.
>
> 1. Is there a official name for this?

"The LMFDB = The L-functions and Modular Forms Database"

> 2. Some kind of logo? (If not, i can do one, just give me a clue what
> it should be like)

I made a logo here once: http://modular.fas.harvard.edu:8080/mfd

> 3. any additinal features planned?
> If I know  where the code is, i can look into some details and fiddle
> around with the interface.

The interface we have is supposed to be very low-level -- just a way
to upload and serve data.
For the most part "Pretty" interactive interfaces will be implemented
as completely separate web servers.
That said, we need to make the current interface far prettier.

William

>
> Harald

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:50 AM, William Stein wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Harald Schilly
> <harald....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi, i was sick and now i'm better and looked into it. yes, i can
>> make it nicer.
>>
>> 1. Is there a official name for this?
>
> "The LMFDB = The L-functions and Modular Forms Database"
>
>> 2. Some kind of logo? (If not, i can do one, just give me a clue what
>> it should be like)
>
> I made a logo here once: http://modular.fas.harvard.edu:8080/mfd
>
>> 3. any additinal features planned?
>> If I know where the code is, i can look into some details and fiddle
>> around with the interface.

http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/lmfdb/server/ . It's all in
an .hg repository, and runs on top of http://cherrypy.org.

> The interface we have is supposed to be very low-level -- just a way
> to upload and serve data.
> For the most part "Pretty" interactive interfaces will be implemented
> as completely separate web servers.
> That said, we need to make the current interface far prettier.

Yes, there's *lots* of room for improvement. Mostly it was to solve
the chicken and egg problem of finally having somewhere to put and
access the data, and I didn't want to spend more than one day on it
(though by now it's obviously taken more time than that).

- Robert