Pascal Georges wrote: Hi!
> [^wish] Wish-speak on. The database could also come with some > premiliminary comment, but I don't know how it could be done in Scid. > > > Scid bases contains at least a description field and a > flag. One (poor) solution is to use the game #1 to enter > any text and full description of what the base contains. > It would be easy to embed a more complete description with > any base, but this may break compatibility as this will > certainly change base's format. As far as I see, a scid DB consists of quite a bunch of files. Eg. time stamping for CC is stored in a file called *.sem. I could imagein to add another text file that contains the description and that is read if it's available. Just like the SEM-file. This would avoid compatibilty issues. I think this is a very flexible apprach that allows for easy extension. E.g. one could think of delivering the base icon also with this file. If it's there it is used if not well, the default applies. Using another "text" file also has the advantage that one would not need to use scid to read it, but one could also check it with some other tool. (Having in mind e.g. to fill a download section with the bases metadata.) As a librarian I'd recommend a normalised metadata set that is just extended, like Dublin Core e.g. I think Dublin Core (aka dc. or rfc5013) is suitable for the purpose. See: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
