The evolution of needs and requirements and its impact on the databases usage in the CulturePlex Lab.

1. Presentation of Databases Evolution in the CulturePlex Laboratory De la Rosa, J; Muñoz, D; Suárez, JL {jdelaros, dmunozes, jsuarez} at uwo dot ca 2010

2. BaroqueArt ( http://baroqueart.cultureplex.ca ) SQL based

4. Complex data scheme.

5. Humanists should do queries with no SQL knowledge. Need a tool to assist for making complex queries. django-qbe http://versae.github.com/qbe

7. Tabular creation of queries with fields to show, criterias, lookups and order (only AND conditions by now).

8. Auto adition of right fields when ForeignKey or ManyToMany fields are selected.

9. Bookmarklet to save and share the queries.

10. Export results to .csv, .odt and .xls, but it's extensible by the user.

11. django-qbe ( http://versae.github.com/qbe )

13. Numerous changes in the main scheme.

14. Almost one big migration per year of all data.

15. Humanists need enrich the data continuously. Need a tool to semantic annotation via ontologies. django-descriptors https://github.com/versae/descriptors

17. Main ontology can be modified and enriched by the users.

18. Users and user groups can share their own (sub)ontologies.

19. Any object can be “described” with any number of descriptors.

20. Descriptions can have a value associated.

21. django-descriptors ( http://github.com/versae/descriptors )

23. Hard to create new properties.

24. Very slow queries with several JOINs.

25. Humanists need a lazy and dinamic definition of schemes. Need a tool to create free relations and properties Sylva https://github.com/escalant3/graphgamel

27. Any number of attributes on objects and relations.

28. Lazy and dynamic schemes to check integrity.

29. Support to media content (images, audios and videos).

30. Facilities to manage users, groups and permissions.

31. Easy to imeplement ontologies and semantic descriptions.

32. Traverses to query the underlying graph.

33. Analysis and visualization of huge data sets.

34. Sylva ( http://github.com/escalant3/graphgamel )

35. Sylva ( http://github.com/escalant3/graphgamel )

36. Questions? Thank you