Dear all, with BioMAJ [1] and getData [2], our distro has now two tools in the distribution that address the retrieval and post-processing of public (or not so public) databases. Hilmar from the OBF has just pointed me to an again very different approach towards the same by the Open Knowledge Foundation named datapkg [3,4] which is not with us, yet. Please have a look at those tools and think about which may be the most appropriate for you. My personal hope is that we can come up with some way that allows package maintainers to specify instructions for associated data to be downloaded and suggest to also install the respective data management tool. This would allow for a decentralisation of the data organisation and help it to scale beyond the most prominent ones.
Cheers, Steffen [1] http://biomaj.genouest.org/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/getData [3] http://okfn.org/projects/datapkg/ [4] http://blog.okfn.org/2010/02/23/introducing-datapkg/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e5200f7.6060...@gmx.de
