On 19 Oct 2011, at 10:15, Edheldil wrote: > Is there any written spec on this system? I got frustrated when looking > for a specific aircraft in fgrun :) and so I suggested something similar > several days ago on IRC, but it got confused with a/c rating. > > If I understand you correctly, "submit a/c to a catalogue" would mean > that the information would not be kept in the a/c data - which has its > pros and cons. I rather think that the metadata should be in the a/c > itself. Maybe some combination would be the best of all worlds?
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft_deployment One thing has changed since I wrote that - I'm probably going to put the metadata in a *separate* file from the -set.xml (but still part of the aircraft zip / distribution) because it means the system can handle 'non-aircraft' packages (eg, shared Instruments) that lack a set file, and it also simplifies handling multiple aircraft variants (set files) in one package. For encoding the metadata, I'm assuming an open-ended scheme, using properties, but with a standard ontology defined on the Wiki. I don't really what the ontology is, but obviously it will include era (1930s, 1950s), type (fixed-wing, glider, heavy), role (general aviation, commercial, bomber, fighter, etc), and so on. It could an arbitrary number of rating systems too, eg: <metadata> <era>1950</era> <type>fixed-wing-jet</type> <role>commerical</role> <status>beta/alpha/production</status> <license>GPL/freeware/CC-SA-nonsense</license> <ratings> <johns-points-system>5</johns-points-system> <bobs-points-system>56</bobs-points-system> ... and so on .... </ratings> </metadata> Again, I'm not worry about the onotology until I have enough code written that it matters, which will be a few months time, probably. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
