Systems selections

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This article is for choosing good systems (technical) for The Consumerium Effort - Enhancing Consumer Informedness

Factors affecting systems selections

Copyleft 'free to modify' and 'free of cost' software is strongly preferred over other solutions.
Minimal modifications made (MMM) is an preference as well. This will ensure that we don't get swamped down on patching ad-hoccy, unstandard aged solutions to keep 'em working with the new stuff.

Encodings

Integers w:BASE10 for integers, size depends on available solutions. Escape integer ceiling by bluntly encoding the integer as string of BASE-10 chars, dirty hack but could do the trick.
Condense URL encoding w:BASE64 and 64 possible characters, exactly 6 bits from w:ISO/IEC 646 (hard compatible with 7-bit ASCII)
w:UTF-8 encoded w:Unicode for text. UTF-8 is efficient and allows 2^32 different characters.. unless escaped to 40-bit in future revision

Copyright and copyleft protections system selections

Copyleft licensing for content, code and Consumerium Commons media repository
Automatic plagiarism testing which usually probably also translates to copyvio
Disqualify and rapidly remove all copyvio
Discourage piratism. Piratism on copyleft much stronger than on copyright.

Data identifiers

GTIN (contains EAN and UPC spaces) identifies uniquely a product to the systems. Also contains the country of the marketer (2 first digits of EAN) and address of the marketers address space. It may be possible to acquire namespace size from examining these values. Possible values are 100 ids and 10,000 ids (EAN).
ISO identifiers exist for at least languages, countries, country-subdivision areas, securities and many more things w:List of International Organization for Standardization standards
UN/LOCODE (United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations) identifies globally nearly all locations of interest to logistics.

Product and service classifications

Product and service classifications

Databases

Main article: Databases

Currently using all major free software RDBMS:

Considered databases

Graph databases and Subject-predicate-object databases seem to perform the same thing just with different architecture and suitability for certain searches. See Talk:Databases for more on this.

Candidates for testing

All copyleft licensed triplestore and more advanced i.e. graph

Languages

Programming languages

Currently used languages

Considered languages / languages of interest

Frameworks

Frameworks for glueing into various systems

Semantic MediaWiki compatibilities: PHP, Semantic Forms, enter data in wiki code -> RDF <-> Graph -> Outputs wikirenders and public SPARQL endpoints

Software

Current server software

Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux
Hypervisors (by hosting guys) Xen and KVM
Webservers: Nginx and Apache

MediaWiki (PHP, MariaDB and more)
w:diaspora (software) (Ruby on Rails ,Ruby, MariaDB, Node.js and more) - role: consumer protection oriented free social media since 2010
w:Draft:Hubzilla (PHP, MariaDB) - Excellent channel-based distributed free social media where subscription is to the whole network allowing nomadic and double citizenship. A model the others should follow suit.
w:Friendica (PHP, MariaDB, fully contained in database w/ images stored as blobs. The least learning curve free social media for facebook refugees. Initiated by the same guy as Hubzilla.
w:GNU social MariaDB - Microblogging platform
w:GNU MediaGoblin (Python2 (Installing Python3 was impossible last time I looked at it, theoretically compatible with Py3 but broken because outside code supplier.) and PostgreSQL) Role: Copyleft code, content and codecs based media repository.

Future software

Once MaidSafe goes persistent stage Consumerium will be deploying many nodes in order to earn SafeCoin to pay for future storage needs. Provision of information services to the denizens of the SAFE Network is also naturally a priority but basically patching a normal webapp onto the SAFE Network is straightforward and easy. Also: commiemism.

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APIs

APIs to communicate with:

MediaWiki API
Free social media ones
Commercial social media ones

Data sources

Data sources: Own own data source

Semantic MediaWiki well thought out and set up on implementation wiki (c.consumerium.org)
Development Wiki - User database, userspace sharing or importing and Unified Login are being looked at as options.

Data sources: Semantic web

The w:semantic web at large and the w:semantic wikis are treasure troves of interesting data which Consumerium should tap into early on to avoid redundant manual replication and duplicate data insertions.

Other copyleft Semantic MediaWikis

DBpedia Public SPARQL endpoint of DBpedia.org and Projects and efforts using DBpedia are very relevant.
Wikidata Public SPARQL endpoint of Wikidata.org (Wikidata Query Service)

Commercial data sources

'Google Maps Platform -> Web Services -> Distance Matrix API' at developers.google.com

Lists of Sparql endpoints

https://www.w3.org/wiki/SparqlEndpoints

Media sources

Copyleft:

Free social media

Consumium free social