linuxaudio.org

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:14:12 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:

quoted text
>  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