DAHDE-DB

The Designed Around Human Data Entry (DAHDE) Database concept is a human-UI-first approach to a document-database made for easy data-entry.

This is only a concept. It currently has no functioning parts.

Concept Summary

A static website serves a page for each entry. An entry here is a "document" in the database sense; markdown will be used to store the document. A CMS will be provided which allows for editing of the markdown text but this concept focuses more around the editing of the markdown header information. The header information will be encoded in YAML (or whatever wowchemy uses - I forget). The CMS will feature a fancy key-value (tag?) editor that suggests "keys" to add a value based on other key-value pairs (and other stuff?).

The documents

Each document header can have:

• key-value pairs
  • tags are implmented as key-value with "value"=true
  • duplicate keys become lists. eg two "see_also_link:''"s become a "see_also_links:[]"
    • related pages list(s)
      • pages can point to parent & child pages
        • parent/child in concept? what about in versioning?
      • pages can point to synonym/antynm/(other relationship?) pages

Querying the databse

Query pages can be generated to show key-values presented in a table with pages on each row. These pages will be very computationally expensive to generate and it may make sense to pre-build them.

First Steps & TODOs

• set up wowchemy+netlify CMS + MBON product interface stuff here.
• key-value pairs in header instead of tags (already impl?)
• query table display (pre-generated)
• start in on the complicated CMS edits

other ideas:

• should actually be type-key-value triads? eg: boolean-is_published-true, datetime-published_on-20220311, product_type-data-zooplankton_dataset
  • note: are types in these triads pages too?
  • the term here is "triple" like used in RDF syntax. Can you do something like TRTL in yaml?