Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> 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.
>
> that's a good solution. The question is how to display the
> data to the user, and I really would like to avoid YAWIS
> (*) syndrom.
Well, actually an info window was what came to my mind as
this information is typically not open all the time. Anyway,
if you want to avoid it: the natural place IMHO would be in
the Maintanance dialogue. One could "fold out" the
information. Something like
Description: Short description of the DB as usual [Edit...]
> Long description
And clicking on the arrow would fold it out. The edit button
could direct to a dialogue that allows for editing of the
metadata. It could similarily be handled in the DB switcher.
Just display the info that is there right now plus some fold
out button that adds the additional info. (This folding out
is done for the player photos or the tiny board in analysis
btw.) The good thing about using Dublin Core would be that
nearly no efford needs to be made to show the info. E.g.
this additional info could just like this:
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dc.Title CentriScid
dc.Creator The CentriScid Community
dc.Contributor Cory Helfrich
dc.Contributor Benoit St-Pierre
dc.Contributor ...
dc.Subject Reference Database of chess games
dc.Type Dataset
dc.Description A reference DB for scid based on CentriScid
dc.Coverage Chess games from 1500 to 2008
dc.date 2008/10/17
dc.format Scid Chess Database
dc.language eng
dc.publisher CentriScid Community
dc.relation Scid http://scid2.sf.net
dc.rights Released unter GNU General Public License V2
Probably it would even fit into a tooltip.
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