The project
That's it I think I found a name: entrypot.
The idea
I have the idea since many weeks to develop a new kind of Web Application.
I wish to develeop what I would call a "freedom DB". Freedom because there would be no schema. Instead of creating information from a structure (like a table of an XML schema), the purpose would be to capture information in a structured way but the structure would not be pre-defined. Even it could change over time.
It's only afterwards, when the information is there that we could export it to structured formats : HTML, RDF, XML, SQL...
How ?
Basically, we need to have an object/attributes/links database...
The following functions would be available to the enduser via web pages
- Create Object(Object Name,Object Type) -> New Object and New Object Type
- Create Object From Type(Object Name) -> New object with all Object Type Attributes pre-created with default values
- Edit Object
- Change Object Name
- Add Object Attribute(Attribute Name,Atttibute Type,Cardinality, Attibute Default Value,Attribute Order)
- Add Object Link(Source ObjectID, Target ObjectID, Link Name, Link Type) -> Link
- Delete Object Link (Link ID)
- Search Object (by name, by type, by attribute, by...)
Attribute Types:
- Text
- String (one line)
- Date
- Integer
- Float
- image
- url
Export functions
- xml (following links to a given depth)
- xsd (following links to a given depth)
- rdf
- rss
Other webpages would allow to
- Specify root objects from wich you can navigate
Examples of usefull objects
- To make a Blog
- Object of type Primary Page linked to Objects of Type messages linked to objects of type comments
- Messages and Comment objects have date:Date, title:String, body:Text, image:Image, comments:Comment*
- To make a ?ContactList
- Contact with several attributes
Related
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