[deepamehta-devel] Freifunk API Query Client with DeepaMehta?

[Juergen Neumann]

Hi Andi,

thank you for introducing your very interesting project to the list.
How are you progressing with your work? Did you manage to write a plugin
to import the data already? Do you have any problems at this point?

Jörg and I discussed the "custom query" issue again. At some point it
might make sense to coordinate the efforts. Let us know when you will
start with it.

Warmly.

JuergeN

Am Montag, den 23.06.2014, 23:59 +0200 schrieb Andreas Bräu:
> Hello,
> 
> my name is Andi and I'm the developer of the so called Freifunk API
> (http://blog.freifunk.net/2013/die-neue-freifunk-api-aufruf-zum-mitmachen
> ). The idea is to allow local Freifunk communities to provide about
> themselves in a decentral way. It's inspired by the SpaceAPI, where
> Hackerspaces from all over the world give information like opening
> hours, addresses and so on.
> 
> The data provided by the communities we use in several apps, for example
> our community map http://freifunk.net/community-finden/ or a feed
> aggregator http://weimarnetz.de/fffeed/feed.php . Other ideas are a
> podcast feed, a common calendar or a timeline.
> 
> The API is specified as JSON Schema -
> https://github.com/freifunk/api.freifunk.net/blob/master/specs/0.3.2.json
> - so that files can be validated and data accessed easily. There's a
> directory as the only central part that knows all community API files:
> https://github.com/freifunk/directory.api.freifunk.net
> 
> To access the data of the communities, we have to collect all files and
> apply filters as we need. In the past we wrote a small piece of code.
> Now we want a generic query client to make app development easier and
> help users to analyse community files. Users should be enabled to submit
> queries via URL calls and receive results as JSON.
> At the Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend we had a talk about the API
> and the query client. We also got to know DeepaMehta and Jürgen told us
> it would fit perfectly.
> 
> Since then we tried to work with DM and understand it. We identified 3
> main subjects:
> - map our json schema to topic types
> - import data from API files
> - perform a search via web client
> 
> Maybe some of you have ideas how or know best practices on our subjects
> and can support us on creating the query client.
> 
> There's already a Google Summer of Code project running:
> http://blog.freifunk.net/2014/gsoc-freifunk-api-query-client
> 
> It was great if we could realize the client with DeepaMehta and benefit
> from your experience.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Andi