another option is to explore something like nobackend (Hoodie).

http://nobackend.org/ <http://nobackend.org/examples.html>

the design is to support multiple storage storage 'backends,' one could be
added for SMW.

https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463475

David


On 5 December 2013 06:13, Neill Mitchell <ne...@nlkmitchell.com> wrote:

> Hi Benedikt
>
> I think this approach is definitely the way to go for your application.
>
> This may be of interest?
> http://wiki.uniformserver.com/index.php/USB_MediaWiki
>
> It installs a portable server and then you can just create your own
> custom MW/SMW instance to use.
>
> Cheers
> Neill.
> On 05/12/13 07:11, Benedikt Kämpgen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We now investigate the possibility to have "SMW-on-a-stick". Then,
> > physicians could just start via an .exe file their own version of the
> > online SMW, locally. They can annotate patients and upload RDF exports
> > to the file server.
> >
> > Thanks again for your thoughts.
> >
> > Any advice on getting "SMW-on-a-stick" and possibly optimising
> > performance would be appreciated.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Benedikt
> >
> > On 11/27/2013 06:57 PM, Benedikt Kämpgen wrote:
> >> Hi Yaron,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your thoughts.
> >>
> >>    > really just mean "private"? It sounds like what you're talking
> about
> >>
> >> Private and offline in a sense that the form should be filled in without
> >> an internet connection.
> >>
> >>    > And if that's the case, maybe the easiest solution is just to have
> a 2nd
> >>    > wiki, with much more restricted viewing?
> >>
> >> Yes, but that would basically mean in our context to have a second SMW
> >> installed on a local machine (without internet connection) for the
> >> physicians. I was hoping to find an easier way to forward a form from
> >> SMW to someone else.
> >>
> >> After a form has been filled in, we somehow need to extract the RDF from
> >> it to be stored (securely) in our knowledge base (FTP server). But I
> >> guess, this is another problem.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Benedikt
> >>
> >> On 11/26/2013 05:30 PM, Yaron Koren wrote:
> >>> Hi Benedikt,
> >>>
> >>> It could be that there's some wording confusion: by "offline", did you
> >>> really just mean "private"? It sounds like what you're talking about is
> >>> people submitting data, via the internet/web, that then gets put into
> an
> >>> external server - only one that requires a password to access; as
> >>> opposed to the usual meaning of "offline", meaning something that
> people
> >>> can do locally on their computer, without any network connection.
> >>>
> >>> And if that's the case, maybe the easiest solution is just to have a
> 2nd
> >>> wiki, with much more restricted viewing?
> >>>
> >>> -Yaron
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Benedikt Kämpgen
> >>> <benedikt.kaemp...@kit.edu <mailto:benedikt.kaemp...@kit.edu>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       Hi,
> >>>
> >>>       Bernhard, Yury, Yaron, Neill, thanks for your answers.
> >>>
> >>>       @Bernhardt: the Push extension is interesting, but probably will
> not
> >>>       help, here, since no information shall be pushed to the online
> wiki.
> >>>
> >>>       @Yury: One important requirement is to have elaborate forms
> >>>       (dropdown, etc.) and a flexible form design. Not sure whether
> Miga
> >>>       could be easily extended towards this use case.
> >>>
> >>>       @Yaron:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > - Would the offline form be just a copy of an online form? If
> so,
> >>>        > doesn't that mean that sensitive patient data *can* get put on
> >>>       the wiki?
> >>>
> >>>       Ideally, the offline form would provide the same functionality
> >>>       (e.g., autocompletion) than the online form. However, an offline
> >>>       filled-in form will never be stored on SMW but rather be put
> as-is
> >>>       on a secure file server.
> >>>
> >>>       The question is, whether "as-is" actually is possible.
> Apparently,
> >>>       we are looking for some kind of JavaScript library that allows to
> >>>       offline modify an HTML page with forms and to save the modified
> HTML
> >>>       page.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > - If a physician stores data offline, can other physicians
> ever
> >>>       view it?
> >>>
> >>>       The current plan is: After offline filling-in a form, the
> filled-in
> >>>       form will be put on a secure file server. From there it can be
> >>>       downloaded for viewing.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > - Where would the data be stored - on a single device?
> >>>
> >>>       Ideally, the offline form could be used on various workstations.
> >>>       When an offline form has been filled in, it is uploaded on a
> single
> >>>       secure file server.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > - Would each set of offline data have its own RDF export?
> >>>
> >>>       That is the crucial point and the reason for using SMW in the
> first
> >>>       place. The online SMW is used to define properties for patients
> >>>       (e.g., "has BMI"). An offline form shall now be used to fill in
> all
> >>>       properties for a patient. An RDF export of the offline form shall
> >>>       use the same properties as introduced by the online form. This
> way,
> >>>       we have a unique relationship between properties as defined by
> the
> >>>       online SMW and filled-in properties for a patient in an offline
> >>>       form. Ideally, an RDF export from an offline form would create
> the
> >>>       same RDF that would have been created if the form would have been
> >>>       filled-in in the online SMW.
> >>>
> >>>       Maybe, the RDF export of the offline SMW could also be
> implemented
> >>>       using RDFa.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > - How would the RDF data be queried, if it requires FTP to
> access?
> >>>
> >>>       The RDF data would be downloaded on demand from the file server
> and
> >>>       for instance loaded into a triple store for querying.
> >>>
> >>>       @Neill:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > What would the Physicians use to key in the data into the
> form? A
> >>>       laptop
> >>>        > or PC/Mac based laptop?
> >>>
> >>>       Probably a PC with Windows.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        > If this is the case there is nothing stopping them running a
> >>>       local copy
> >>>        > of MW/SMW and then simply uploading the data to the central
> >>>       instance (a
> >>>        > server somewhere I assume) using the normal MW export/import.
> >>>
> >>>       True. We just try to avoid the additional effort of managing a
> local
> >>>       copy SMW by having offline forms that create the same RDF as an
> >>>       online filled-in form.
> >>>
> >>>       I hope that makes our problem clearer.
> >>>
> >>>       Best,
> >>>
> >>>       Benedikt
> >>>
>
>
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