which software used to "make" dmoz.org

[Guest]

Hi,

 

which software is used to "make" the site dmoz.org (the directory part - based on the RDF data) ? is it downloadable somewhere ?

 

regards

 

sws

[Khym_Chanur]

The software that the editors use to add, remove, and modify sites and categories, and then turn the internal databases into an RDF dump, is proprietary. On the editor-only forums, we editors semi-frequently ask for it to be made open source, but we've gotten no response on that.

[Guest goa103]

The software that the editors use to add, remove, and modify sites and categories, and then turn the internal databases into an RDF dump, is proprietary. On the editor-only forums, we editors semi-frequently ask for it to be made open source, but we've gotten no response on that.

 

I can understand why they don't make it open source, it would mean anyone could create their own ODP-like Directory. And I'm not sure it would be a good thing, it's already hard to find editors for ODP ! What would it be if there was too many ODP Directories ?

[theseeker]

I doubt that anyone would wish to use the ODP software to create a directory. ODP was designed before large sclae databases like MySQL became widespread, so it used no central database. Instead it uses the disk's file system, lots of flat files and Berkeley databases.

 

If it could be re-designed from the ground up, I think the ODP programmer(s) would go a different direction.

 

My personal opinion is the reason the ODP software is no open source is because there would be very little advantage to it, and the people who would have to make that call--AOL executives--have far mroe important things to deal with.

 

This is all my own personal opinion, based on observations only.

[hmf]

I think ODP could benefit from an open and more modern code

base. Most feature requests are met with the response that

it can not be done due to resource and technological constraints.

 

This could be improved by an open source approach.

 

I guess there are quite a few open source programmers among

the odp editors who would be keen to participate. (like me)

 

Cheers

Hans (hmf)

[giz]

There are a lot of specific tools that have already been made by various editors. If you are an editor, then you'll already be aware of the place that these are listed and discussed.

[hmf]

The editor produced tools are useful, but they try to remedy

problems, that should be solved in the base software.

 

Where could I learn writing editor produced tools, or helping

with the existing ones?

 

Cheers

Hans

[donaldb]

That would be in the internal Editor Produced Tools forum.