[Kalzium] [BlueObelisk-discuss] BODR relicensing to CCZero

[Etienne Rebetez]

Am Montag 06 Februar 2012, 13:41:39 schrieb Egon Willighagen:
> Hi Etienne,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Etienne Rebetez
> 
> <etienne.rebetez at oberwallis.ch> wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag 26 Januar 2012, 21:21:28 schrieb Egon Willighagen:
> >> since we just had a patch for BODR data, this may be the best moment
> >> to discuss the future of BODR... there are still several projects
> >> using it, though it may that Kalzium stopped using it (not entirely
> >> sure)...
> > 
> > Kalzium is still using it.
> 
> That is great news!
Also happy to hear that bodr is alive:)

> 
> > Last year I pushed a few patches to upstream and
> > they have been applyed. The only thing that is not yet in bodr are the
> > oxidation states I added last summer.
> > (Kalzium only uses the elements.xml, isotopes.xml and spectra.xml files)
> 
> OK, I will keep this in mind. Is this filed as a patch on SourceForge
> yet? And, would you be OK to donate this under CCZero?
No, not yet. The data is not complete. 
But I could make a patch of the current kalzium/element.xml file to show the 
current difference.
The CCZero licence seems fine to me. 

> 
> >> There are a few patches / bug reports, which I will want to apply, and
> >> I also want to move away from XML towards RDF, and to write a few
> >> tools to create easier to parse files, which previously has been done
> >> by software using the data. Making it RDF means it can be more easily
> >> shared in the semantic web, and this automatically be easily
> >> accessible by websites, etc, etc
> > 
> > Thats cool. But it may take a while until Kalzim has changed the parsing
> > code.
> Well, that is one of the things I am exploring now: what formats do we
> want the data to be available in. And the current XML formats has
> already been requested, so, there will be no need to update parsers,
> unless you want to parse in data no longer being parsed.
> 
> So, the idea is to have one data bundle, and one bundle with scripts
> to convert the RDF into other formats.
Ah, ok. Now i get it.
> 
> Egon