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.

Languages

Programming languages

Currently used languages

Considered languages / languages of interest

Databases

Current databases

Main article: Databases

Currently using all major free software RDBMS:

Considered databases

Candidates for testing

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

Frameworks

Frameworks for glueing into various systems


Software

Current software

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APIs

APIs to communicate with:

  • Free social media ones

Data sources

Data sources: own

  • 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


Lists of Sparql endpoints


Media sources

Copyleft: