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Re: Musings on an open-source Brickshelf replacement
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:20:31 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Wayne McCaul wrote:
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Oh, that’s freakish. I was just thinking that maybe it could work like
iPodder or other aggregators. Where you’d upload a simple XML file that
contains all the details of your content.
Your pics would be hosted on your own site, but there could be a central site
(call it BrickPics) that just shows what “feeds” have been updated. You could
manually update your own XML file to show you’ve got new content.
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Hmm, that’s an interesting idea. So basically, your own site would contain your
images plus an XML file that provides metadata for them (description, keywords,
category, etc.). You’d register the URL of your XML file with the central
server just once; it would then check it periodically, and update its own
database accordingly (probably including making thumbnails). So once you’re
registered, you just need to upload your images and update your XML file, and
everybody else finds out about it shortly.
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Maybe the central site would just be links, or thumbnails of only the most
current feeds, like the Brickshelf homepage. But it could be a one-stop
browsing, especially if the content is subdivided into catagories.
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Right, it wouldn’t be too hard to provide searching, browsing, and recent-stuff
views of the data.
The central server could perhaps also assign a unique URL to each image it
finds, so that if you have to move your pictures (and XML file) to a different
host, URLs that go through the central server continue to work.
Best,
Joe
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| (...) For simplicities sake this type of stuff already exists all that would have to be done is the aggregator part. NELUG uses an open source product called Gallery... (URL) allows our members to host image galleries on NELUG.org... (URL) of this (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Oh, that's freakish. I was just thinking that maybe it could work like iPodder or other aggregators. Where you'd upload a simple XML file that contains all the details of your content. Your pics would be hosted on your own site, but there could be a (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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