Allow me to describe “people” in the photo: enter a name or nickname, and then present me a list of options from my triple store, or the option to describe a new person. Once I choose a person, a name + IFP should be included in the output so that I can smush the data together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI’d like for the entire interface to be text based. I don’t want a web or graphical app: with 1500 photos, that’s just too damn much. I want to be able to describe these things quickly and easily, so very little should get in the way, with as few keystrokes as possible. If I want to skip something, I can just hit enter to skip over it. <\/p>\n
I’m lucky in some respects, because some of the hard work of gathering information about people is already done for me: I have a large triple store at hand that can help me with this project. I also have some limited experience in working with the Redland framework, so I may even have the experience I need to make this work. So, here’s how I see it working on the inside:<\/p>\n
Create an interface along the lines of what Config::Tiny (in perl) does: Question [default] ? then allow for the user to either skip past (and use the default, which may be none in some cases) or to use their option: if their option, possibly provide a list of choices after that. For example, if I enter “Jessica” as a name, it should tell me “There is no name Jessica in the database: would you like to create a new user?” with a yes or no option; if no, it would go back to the previous step and let me enter a different name. Dump the data, as its created, to an in-memory Redland model. Once the photo description is complete, serialize the model to a file, which can then be run through cwm to clean it up for more permanant storage.<\/p>\n
I’m probably going to actually get off my butt and write this pretty soon: I have a lot of interest in describing this data, in part because it’s another case where a nifty project can lead to a great demonstration of why and how RDF can work. I’m most interested in someone who may have suggestions on what kind of tools would be good for creating the interface: the last time I did any kind of user input other than command line was when I was working with cin>> statements in C++. I’m probably going to write it in Python (I feel that I really accomplish things much more quickly writing in that language than in either perl or PHP), so tips on how to create command line user interfaces in Python are appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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