Hi all, I've approved a couple of messages on this list. Mostly we get 

people crossposting advert for vaguely related events which I don't let 

through moderation as my theory is that it's better to have a quiet 

fallow list, than one full of weeds which forces people to unsubscribe.



Last year I did a project I'm quite proud of and might be of interest to 

people on this list. I created a "no database" repository. It runs 

purely in javascript and downloads the entire metadata of the archive 

into the browser (as JSON). This is surprisingly fast for a few 1000 

records as that's nothing compared to an embedded youtube video or even 

a high quality jpg.



The archive is here http://www.fmc.ac.uk/mitset/#/



The blogpost is at 

http://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2019/01/30/pure-javascript-microrepository-planning-for-sustainable-websites/



The real win is that it makes it much easier to preserve as there's no 

security risks because the webserver just serves static files. You could 

even turn the microrepository into a single HTML file, by making images 

use "data" URIs and embedding all the CSS, JSON, Javascript etc. in the 

HTML file. That in turn could be uploaded to an institutional repository.



It would have been right up the street of the previous incarnation of 

JISC but there's no funding for cool development ideas like this these 

days (that I'm aware of...)



Maybe this will inspire some ideas. Happy 2020 data nerds.





-- 

Christopher Gutteridge <[log in to unmask]>

You should read our team blog at http://blog.soton.ac.uk/webteam/





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