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