Our live Simal instance
Steve Bennett
Thought you might be interested to see our projects registry:
I meant to post here when it went live 6 weeks ago, but in the
kerfuffle of a massive data centre outage, it slipped my mind. At the
moment it's basically a static representation of data that's all mass
imported from the command line, and generated with an excel macro
(joy...)
Steve
Sander van der Waal
> contri...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bennett
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> Hi all,
> Thought you might be interested to see our projects registry:
>
> http://projects.ands.org.au
Congrats Steve and thanks for posting it here, it looks great!
> I meant to post here when it went live 6 weeks ago, but in the
> kerfuffle of a massive data centre outage, it slipped my mind. At the
> moment it's basically a static representation of data that's all mass
> imported from the command line, and generated with an excel macro
> (joy...)
Just wondering, did you create a custom importer for this? Or was the
macro the custom part that you used to convert to RDF/XML?
Sander
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Steve Bennett
<sander.v...@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Just wondering, did you create a custom importer for this? Or was the
> macro the custom part that you used to convert to RDF/XML?
The final workflow was:
1) People fill data into a (pre-populated) google spreadsheet
2) I download and paste into Excel spreadsheet
3) Run macro, which generates one .xml per project
4) Copy .xmls to server
5) Shut down Simal, delete database, import all files (using the
'import directory' mode), restart Simal
I'd actually spent a while rewriting the Doap generation Widget,
before deciding it wasn't really a practical way of collecting
information from people, since they can't edit it later on. This
workflow also allows me to massage the data that people are entering,
converting bullets to HTML, and applying some lightweight syntax for
squeezing multiple emails into one field, for instance.
Steve