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manami-project / anime-offline-database

Updated every week: A JSON based anime dataset containing the most important meta data as well as cross references to various anime sites such as MAL, ANIDB, ANILIST, KITSU and more...
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Does Anime News Network count as a datatbase? #37

Closed DonaldTsang closed 4 years ago

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

Since ANN has data on both community ratings and "encylopedia" data, would it be considered for this database?

manami-project commented 4 years ago

Hello @DonaldTsang,

thank you for your interest in the project. The wording I use here which would apply to ann is "meta data provider" instead of "database". I started adding different meta data providers, because I wanted to be able to switch the links for my personal anime list from one meta data provider to another. I don't plan to add ann to this database because it is currently not a meta data provider I consider switching to.

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

@manami-project care to define what is "meta data" in the context.

manami-project commented 4 years ago

Descriptive meta data such as title or number of episodes.

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

I do think that they have metadata such as:

Here are some examples (some of my preferences):

manami-project commented 4 years ago

I didn't question that.

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

So in a sense, ANN does not order their data properly, is that it?

manami-project commented 4 years ago

No. As I stated

I started adding different meta data providers, because I wanted to be able to switch the links for my personal anime list from one meta data provider to another. I don't plan to add ann to this database because it is currently not a meta data provider I consider switching to.

So I only add data that I personally need and I only add meta data providers that I consider using myself. ANN is not a site that I consider using myself at the moment.

DonaldTsang commented 4 years ago

In that case a PR would suffice?