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creationix / gospel-viewer

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New project #1

Open blittle opened 7 years ago

blittle commented 7 years ago

Tim,

I love the work you have done here. I'd like to adapt it to use service worker cache for sqlite storage. I'd also like to build a crowd-sourced mechanism for annotations. I'm curious if you are interested in helping out? In general I appreciate your prior work in figuring the church's API's.

creationix commented 7 years ago

Sounds like fun. The biggest issue I had with this is the copyright on the content.

I had a nice long talk with someone from the church offices and the basic result was we're restricted to consuming the data directly, but not publishing it or derivatives of it.

I had a previous project that converted the data to something more web friendly offline and he was worried that would break some copyright laws.

blittle commented 7 years ago

Hmmm. Sounds messy. I noticed they have a JSON API for all of the content as well:

http://tech.lds.org/glweb/?action=catalog.query&languageid=1&platformid=10&format=json

blittle commented 7 years ago

I wonder if we could get around the "publishing" changes with just CSS

blittle commented 7 years ago

Or is it easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

creationix commented 7 years ago

It's not too hard to consume the data directly in the browser, this app does just that.

If you add in workers and persistence, a local copy of optimized data can be stored. The step of downloading and converting the data can be done locally in the browser once for a user and saved.

blittle commented 7 years ago

Very true. The only reason the pure JSON api interests me is that I could avoid loading the 2mb sql lite JavaScript implementation. Though if that would loaded once inside a service worker, it might not be that big of a deal.

creationix commented 7 years ago

I wish we could just get the tech team at the church to publish a format more web friendly. We'd probably be willing to do the dev work if that's their main issue.