[atlas-l] welcome back!

David Rayner dr at rynrs.com
Mon Jul 14 08:36:15 UTC 2008


Jer, You've certainly woken me up. I'll be going though your stuff 
carefully when I can calm down the project I am currently working on.

dr


Jeremie Miller wrote:
> A long sabbatical, but it's time to start pushing Atlas forward again  
> now that the Wikia Search stuff is really going good and can serve as  
> our early adopters :)
> 
> I've been working quietly for a few weeks to really circle back and  
> think about Atlas and how to get the protocol to a usable state, and  
> one of the things I've learned is wonderful over the last year is  
> JSON, and I've combined the two and updated some of my ideas about how  
> a knugget is defined:
> 	http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Atlas#What_is_a_knugget.3F
> 
> It's really rather terse yet, but hopefully it will start to make  
> sense (and probably morph a lot) as we start to play with it in  
> practice. I've also made a really really simplistic Factory, I suppose  
> you could say it's the most minimal one possible to implement (just  
> change url for other pages):
> 	http://re.search.wikia.com/do/factory?url=http://perl.com/
> 
> It supports an optional &callback=foo to add a function wrapper around  
> the JSON.  Also, importantly, it's returning a whole bundle of  
> knuggets for the given document, and every knugget is identified  
> individually, like the main document one would be:
> 	http://re.search.wikia.com/do/factory?url=http://perl.com/#doc
> 
> Anyway, wanted to put this out quick to wake up the list, and that  
> there should be a steady stream of updates as both the demo factory  
> improves and there's some demo collector/CQ and broker work done to  
> accompany it :)
> 
> Jer
> 
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