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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Interesting blog post from a commercial EDA vendor
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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via 
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>> and searching it is impossible. Upverter is a commercial vendor so I
>> understand that they do have to make a buck but Zak does bring up an
>> interesting point. It is not open source vs commercial that we are 
>> dealing
>> with. It is
>> Big EDA vs everybody. We have to start talking with each other and 
>> come up
>> with usable standards that do not lock us into big eda tools.
>>
>
> I support this idea. And again, if any well documented, reasonably 
> designed open standard is made, I'd happily implemet importer/exporter 
> in pcb-rnd. Or write an output to my pdf table extractor to that format.
>
>
>
>
Hi all,

I have a couple of gigabytes of datasheets lingering in a Network 
Archive Storage as well ;-)

All sorted by vendor and part ID.

And some (most) are old revisions, so called "uncontrolled copies".

Me thinks that maintaining all that data, files and file locations 
(where to find/retrieve the content) requires "Big Effort", whether done 
in a private environment, corporate business or in an "OpenEDA" community.

To get this sorted once and for all will require agreement on the 
framework (DBMS ?) by the user base first, agreement on usage of pdfs 
from corparate vendors, and then getting all that data in the framework 
(DBMS).

This will take forever ;-)

Just my 2 cents.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

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