Hi Simon,
Thanks for your ideas. I'm interested to hear a little about the use
cases you are targeting. Are you trying to server offline browser users
in general, or do you have a specific case you have in mind?
The background here is that we typically don't encourage transferring
data from our format to another. Though we've accumulated a large
library of works and that, in itself, is useful to other engineer, we
don't curate any of these individual modules and simply have done the
work to track down each authoritative source, get permission for
distribution and use as openly as can be obtained from their curator,
and then to convert their primary data source into our module format.
This doesn't pass along any rights for use to other projects outside
those of CrossWire, and also doesn't provide a primary source for any of
this material-- which an lead to multiplied data conversion issues when
moving on to a second jump from the primary source.
We have a C++ engine which runs on most any device you might wish to
support (including web server)-- with many bindings for most popular
scripting languages, and also a native Java engine as well. Both of
these can be used to discover, install, and access our entire library,
if you'd like to start a new application in our community or contribute
to an existing solution.
Two web applications which use our engines and might interest you are:
http://crosswire.org/study
http://stepbible.org
Hope this helps. Welcome! Looking forward to sharing in service together,
Troy
On 12/26/2016 03:32 AM, Simon Biggs wrote:
Hi,
I was hoping to help set up a CORS API for transfer of crosswire
resources to web apps. My hope was to be able to make something
simple, probably written in Python with the Tornado module and using
the sword SWIG bindings.
My thought is the API would simply send whole resources, such as a
whole Bible translation. Any webapp interfacing with the API would
likely download the resources once per user and store them within the
browser's IndexedDB.
I'm not sure what is the best format to use for the transmitted
content. The easiest option might be using something like the plain
text OSIS format. From my limited exposure to this project that would
mean minimal work on the server end required to make as many resources
as possible able to be sent this way. What to then do with the OSIS
file and how to store it in the IndexedDB would be up to the client
side programmer.
What are your thoughts? Does anyone have any recommendations for
improvement? If I made something like this, is this something that
crosswire would be willing to have running on their server for
resource distribution?
Thank you,
Simon
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