Re: [libdb-develop] modularizing schema?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 12:59 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:

> The FRBR spec contains numerous suggested fields for books, serials, 
> and audio materials, but I've not included those in the actual tables, 
> as you know, because they wouldn't have actually been used (for my 
> initial purposes, etc.). But, "genre" in LibDB is being handled with 
> the "concept" table, which is a Group 3 entity in FRBR. The plan, once 
> movies were "done", was to simply add the media-specific fields to the 
> relevant tables (page numbers to manifestations, etc.).

Is it technically possible to do as I was suggesting though?  To have 
that community-specific content broken out in to separate files?

> With that said, and with that company no longer "bugging" me to get 
> something done, I'm not sure I'll have "time" to work on LibDB for a 
> very long time, if at all. The original impetus is gone, there are 
> other projects that are taking up a lot of my effort and, though there 
> was a lot of interest in the Drupal world for it, there were no 
> additional developers who had the libtech knowledge to do it "right".

I guess that's the way things go.  I do think it would be valuable -- 
if you can find a bit of time -- to consider the above, so that the 
core schema just represented the logic.  If someone comes along wanting 
to do this sort of project (maybe me in a year or two), then I could 
just point 'em to the schema.  There's are probably 50 LAMP bib 
projects out there, almost all of which start and end with bibtex.  I'd 
love to give them a ready-made alternative.

Bruce