[mb-devel] ThingDB from The Open Library

[Peter Brooks]

David,
Thanks for the link, I think it could be very useful for mb and many other
applications. I'm starting to find a lot of wiki's aren't aging very well.

On 17/07/07, david scotson <david.scotson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> An interesting new semi-structured database with wiki-like revision
> control:
>
> http://demo.openlibrary.org/about/tech
>
> "Building Open Library, we faced a difficult new technical problem. We
> wanted a database that could hold tens of millions of records, that
> would allow random users to modify its entries and keep a full history
> of their changes, and that would hold arbitrary semi-structured data
> as users added it. Each of these problems had been solved on its own,
> but nobody had yet built a technology that solved all three together."
>
> Seems like it could be relevant for MusicBrainz,
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
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