Re: [Treebase-devel] harvesting

[Hilmar L. <hl...@ne...>]

On Feb 3, 2012, at 3:00 AM, Roderic Page wrote:

> I'm reading this thread with a growing sense of horror.

Actually I'm glad others outside the project are finally getting horrified too. That should help with prioritization :-)

> At some point TreeBASE needs a radical rethink. A nonSQL document store would make life so much easier, as would cleanly separating the data entry stuff from the data storage and output.


A wholehearted +1. In fact this is part of what we proposed in the 2011 NSF ABI grant (posted on the evoio.org wiki if you are curious) that was just declined from funding. And I also agree that there are significant barriers in the TreeBASE architecture to engendering outside participation, but I'm afraid the architecture is so entangled right now that it takes dedicated effort to break that up right now, i.e., grant funding.

	-hilmar
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