Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/01/14/22:51:49
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am currently set up a project just to do the same - and even a little bit
> more.
>
> My proposal is to set up a 'google-like' OSHW search enginge, which chaches
> - original data sheets in PDF, PS
> - models (spice, IBIS, HDL, BSDL, ..)
> - symboles and footprints (geda, kicad)
> - OSHW schematics etc.
>
>
> All findings should be referenced to the original, hashed by MD5/SHA2 and
> tagged
> w/ date/location/license.
>
You could come up with some simple text format that would describe
the main properties of the project for indexing. Something like each
record is a "key: value" line, such as:
author: xy
license: gpl
desc: funny little touch sensor
category: schematics pcb spice-simulation
There could be a default name and if the project includes such a file it
would override whatever automatic heruistics of the indexing for the
given fields in that directory, maybe recursively. Much like robots.txt.
At the end if the format is easy enough to use and your projects gets some
momentum, people would start using it as the administrative overhead is
smaller than the benefit of better indexing.
Regards,
Tibor
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