2024-02-23
Here are the notes about the weekly meeting of the Knowledge Standards Foundation.
Attendees
John, Alex, Shelly, Sergei, Henry, Larry, Nancy, Manon, Cale, Tim
Action Items
- Tim to give John Blake's AI work on the PDF list
Open Issues
- How to create a ZWI file from any website
- How to read a ZWI file? Publicize that you have to change .zwi to .zip to open it. Someone could create a reader.
Summary
Larry update
- Demoed OEDP Automation Strategy
- Led discussion about OEDP
- Below is the dataflow from PDF to ZWI via ABBYY
Sergei update
- EncycloReader updates (various)
- Addressed Tim's concern about adding entries to Encylopedia Listing (the secret is to edit an existing entry and Insert As New Row, manually determining Id and HashID (Tim has a Python script based on Sergei's work that creates a short, fairly unique, urlsafe hash)
- Still thinking about how to create a ZWI file from any website, requires thought about how to handle any arbitrary style sheet the website may be using
Henry update
- Rewriting EncycloEngine in JavaScript
- Shelly pointed out she's the only native Windows developer, and Henry's rewrite requires Linux
- No native Windows support
Tim update
- Fundraising: queried Foundation Directory; suggested mtg with Larry to sync up on what he learned this week
- Encyclopedia Website Listing: added 34 encyclopedias from The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL)—enter ccel in the search box to see them.
John update
- Working on wiki
- Worked on list of PDFs, needs cleaning up