Morbus Iff Launches LibDB Media Cataloging Project

Morbus Iff, he of AmphetaDesk and the amazin' lead author of Spidering Hacks has announced LibDB, which is as he describes it as "An open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management system based on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, triples from the semantic web, and 'the end-user doesn't, and shouldn't, need to know this stuff'." The project page is available at http://www.disobey.com/noos/LibDB/ .

When you visit the site you'll see project goals (many of which have been accomplished already -- Morbus has thrown himself into this one) Unfortunately one of the tasks which has not been accomplished is that of creating an administrative front end for the "casual user." Non-coders who visit this site might find that they don't know where to jump in. I recommend you start with the ProjectGoals document to get an idea as to where this will progress. From there, go to the RecommendedReading page for more background on the technology. Finally, sign up for the notification list to be alerted whenver pages are updated. There's also a developer's list available.

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