Distributome Project infrastructure developments as of November 11, 2011:

• Web-site:
  • Updated the web-site and the host server (improved response time)
  • Navigator Updates
    • Most of the suggestions for improvement of the meta-data content display and graph navigation are implemented (change-log details of the revisions are online)
    • Still working on implementing the multi-layer graph Navigator (displaying all, fewer, or very few distributions)
    • Tested on 56 pairs of OS and browsers, roughly half of the combinations rendered the Navigator graph correctly (some of the problems was due to the load-time of the JavaScript/DB-parsing or JavaScript disabled)
    • Working on the V.2 user-interface redesign
    • Database
      • Utilization: We have the machine and human interfaces to the Distributome XML DB functional now:
        • Machine (shell-based) Interface:
          • wget http://www.distributome.org/js/Distributome.xml.html
          • wget http://www.distributome.org/js/Distributome.xml
          • Web-service (WSDL): in progress
      • Human Interface
• Modification – we are still working on the Distributome DB Editor – a graphical interface would allow anyone to modify, expand, correct, save and submit revisions to the DB.
• Clean-up: We’ll initiate DB clean up (with help from students and the community) as soon as the Graphical Distributome Editor is available
• Bibliography (Reference Manager) – we are exploring BibJSON and are trying to identify the best protocol for retrieval (put/generate/make/edit/revise) existing and commit (call/retrieve/search) new biblio/reference items.