[Bug-gne]forward with GNE...

[Christopher Mahan]

I've been thinking of what GNE could in fact be named, being, in fact, a 
worldwide repository of documents...

I had fun yesterday getting my hosting company to enable the database 
directories for writing.

I will try to summarize the content of the mailing list archives and place 
themm on my site at http://www.christophermahan.com/gne/

I have isolated three elements of the servers.

There are servers that do nothing but give random article numbers, and store 
passwords. (both written already)

There are servers which provide back-end administration for the system 
(accept submissions, disseminate them) synchronize servers, and update 
indexed.

Third, are the html servers, that actually serve the articles in html or xml 
to the clients/classifiers' front ends.


I also figured that contributors should log in, create their profile, and 
that their profile will be read-only except for them, but can be referenced 
by ID.

The contributors can be: authors, co-authors, editors, translators, raters 
(for mature/legal reasons), sysadmins, etc.

This means that I could set person x as an editor on article A, as a 
translation on article B, and as a co-author on article C, simply by 
referencing ID numbers.

The servers should communicate solely via http and xml over tcp/ip. This 
will allow multiple types of OSes to work together.

Kind of like MS's .NET yet without the convoluted SOAP.

On the IDs, I use 10 digit base 35 letters a-z lowercase and 0-9, omitting 
the character "o" so people don't get confused.
I use lowercase so as to make it case insensitive (for our unix friends).

Also figured out how to do the inline images, as a <media id="123456789"> 
link within the body of the article.


Found out that a MS Word mathematical formula cuts and pastes nicely to a 
graphics program, and saves nicely as a jpeg (see sample: 
http://www.christophermahan.com/gne/media/equa.jpg ) This would be an 
alternative to MathML, since it's implementaion in modern browsers is iffy.




Christopher Mahan
address@hidden
www.christophermahan.com

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