Wikipedia describes faceted search as

“a technique for accessing a collection of information represented using a faceted classification, allowing users to explore by filtering available information. A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways, rather than in a single, pre-determined, taxonomic order”.

Although faceted search systems aim at providing search interfaces that go beyond the model of a single, rigid, top-down catalogue for an information space, taxonomical classifications remain always one of the most useful ways to organise a dataset, as they implicitly provide support for ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ search operations. A good compromise then is to allow the simultaneous selection of search filters coming from different taxonomical schemas – or mixing them with non-taxonomical ones.

Version 0.9.7 of Djfacet, among several other things, includes full support for displaying and navigating through hierarchical facets as long as they are expressed in the DB via django-MPTT. A demo is available here (just browse into the ‘religion’ facet to see what I mean).

There are still a few things to sort out before reaching version 1.0 (including updating the online docs), but it’s getting closer – stay tuned!

Links:

I emailed the customer service people at Flickr, they promptly replied that it wasn’t their fault but most likely a bug with other apps I had previously authorised to edit my Flickr collection (e.g. iPhoto or Aperture). Bad news: apparently whatever happened now what’s lost is lost forever. Not much to my consolation, the same happened to other people, for example check this post or this post to see alternative versions of the problem from 2010 and 2007.

So I’ve suddenly realised the cloud isn’t that secure a place, as yet. It’s time to change strategy: use flickr for sharing and my local HD for backup!

The good news is that if you know a little programming you can download your entire Flickr collection without having to pay a cent, for example by using Python. There are a few free libraries out there for accessing the Flickr APIs, such as flickrpy and FlickrAPI. They both require you to fiddle a little with the code (at the very least, get a personalised passkey from Flickr and add it to the python program) in order to get what you want.

The one I’ve gone for instead is a little package called flickrtouchr, which is even easier to use. After downloading you just have to run it from the command line and it’ll begin browsing your whole Flickr collection and download pictures at the highest resolution available. I have more than 8000 photos, and it worked like a charm – beware though – it took more than 10 hours on my TalkTalk connection.

Thanks Dan@hivelogic.com for writing this code – couldn’t be asking for more!

[mac]@mike:~/Dropbox/code/python/_libs/dan-hivelogic-flickrtouchr-9ba645b>python flickrtouchr.py ~/Desktop/FlickrBackupFolder

In order to allow FlickrTouchr to read your photos and favourites
you need to allow the application. Please press return when you've
granted access at the following url (which should have opened
automatically).

http://api.flickr.com/services/auth/?api_key=e2245325378b5675b4af4e8cdb0564716fa9bd&perms=read&frob=8856734hhgbbhsksd19443-caa77e89367asbbhfa2ba-600258&api_sig=a4aasdbbnb345c7fb46bdd33cfa65ec17bb32a

Waiting for you to press return

Egypt 1 ... in set ... Sharm el Sheik, Dec 2011
Egypt 2 ... in set ... Sharm el Sheik, Dec 2011
Egypt 3 ... in set ... Sharm el Sheik, Dec 2011
Egypt 4 ... in set ... Sharm el Sheik, Dec 2011

..... etc….

I presented a poster about the Art of Making project (which deals with categorising and making available online a collection of images of ancient Roman sculpture). In particular I was there for the Data Modelling and Sharing session: the formal ontology we’re working on in the Art of Making (and the accompanying dataset) is likely going to become one of the first in its kind. So I was quite interested in finding out who’s doing what, when it comes to sharing data about the the ancient world.

The answer is, there are a lot of people doing very interesting things (btw please get in touch if you know of other relatable datasets). Here’re a brief report on some the papers that struck me (for the full list of the talks I would have liked to attend, check out my interactive schedule.)

Finally, this is the schedule for the whole conference (notice the slick widget – it’s powered by a new service sched.org) :

In short, I’d say I care more about designing applications that can change the way people read online, rather than taking on biblical text-encoding enterprises that at the end of the day result in just another, more complicated, html page.

So I was happy to see that there’s lots going on in this area outside academia; in this post (which is a work-in-progress) I’ll start collecting a few examples of this kind of digital tools.

Findings

Findings is a “groundbreaking tool for collecting, sharing and discussing clips you find on your Amazon Kindle and from any website on the internet. Just import your Amazon Kindle Highlights with Findings and you can start sharing and discussing them with others instantly”.

The key idea here seems to be that since a lot of the reading we do nowadays is online (or on digital devices) we may as well start sharing the ‘highlights’ we create by using a social network architecture (e.g. share, vote, comment on etc.). The idea definitely makes sense, and, quite interestingly, it reminds us of what used to be common practice in a time when the book (as we know it nowadays) wasn’t yet an established form of writing (check out Robert Darnton: “early modern Englishmen … broke texts into fragments and assembled them into new patterns by transcribing them in different sections of their notebooks“)

Small Demons:

Small Demons. The blurb is catchy: “suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place. Together they create something vast, wonderful and entirely new. A Storyverse. A place where details touch, overlap and lead you further. To new music to listen to. New movies to watch. Places to visit. People to know. And of course, new books to read. Getting started is simple. Just choose a book. See where it takes you.”

Here there seems to be some level of semantic annotation of the texts, which produces a thick layer of metadata that can be used to create unusual and interesting interconnections among the materials published. Definitely worth keeping an eye on – in particular I wonder how ‘deep’ is the semantic annotation process, and on which scale!

Readmill

Readmill is a “curious community of readers, sharing and highlighting the books they love. Highlight your favorite passages and share them with your reading community. Follow people you like and find out what your friends are reading. Explore a world of reading and keep a list of books you want to read. Read with Readmill for iPad, and sync highlights from Amazon Kindle with the Readmill Bookmarklet.”

The read-highlight-share idea is the same as in Findings (above); the main difference, at first sight, is that this Berlin-based startup is also producing mobile apps (e.g. iPhone, android) that will make the ‘Readmill experience’ much more integrated and, supposedly, powerful. We”ll see!

Quote.fm

Quote.fm is presented as “the best way to discover, read and share great texts that have the power to convey ideas, provoke emotions or change your entire life. It’s all about texts truly worth reading.”

This is another German company that in the spirit of Findings (above) has put up a service for saving and sharing quotations taken from online resources. The site look is quite appealing, there’s no support for Kindle yet by it appears from the Timeline that soon we’ll see a whole bunch of new features on this site..

Read and Note

Readandnote.com system “has the ability to annotate digital versions of books and many types of different assets, add any asset and the capability of linking references through the annotation process. The e-publication suddenly becomes more than a ‘read-only’ document”.

This technology seems very promising; the website talks about supporting iPad and mobile devices too, which is always a plus. Unfortunately there isn’t any demo or screencast available at the moment, but we’ll keep an eye on this (you can sign up to receive news from them if you like).

That’s all for now..

Which of the ones above will succeed? I’ll try to keep adding pointers to this list as I run into them in the next weeks, so come back for more.

Tip: the recently finished ifBookThen conference had a lot of interesting talks (also, you can read an overview of it on Storify)

The book (which is available online here )is simple and well organized; it spends quite a bit of time on both introductory topics and more advanced ones, so it'll probably fit both the beginner and the more experienced programmer.

Here's a list of the chapters available:

CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED WITH PATHS AND TEXT
Introduction
Drawing a line
Drawing an arc
Drawing a Quadratic curve
Drawing a Bezier curve
Drawing a zigzag
Drawing a spiral
Working with text
Drawing 3D text with shadows
Unlocking the power of fractals: Drawing a haunted tree

CHAPTER 2: SHAPE DRAWING AND COMPOSITES
Introduction
Drawing a rectangle
Drawing a circle
Working with custom shapes and fill styles
Fun with Bezier curves: drawing a cloud
Drawing transparent shapes
Working with the context state stack to save and restore styles
Working with composite operations
Creating patterns with loops: drawing a gear
Randomizing shape properties: drawing a field of flowers
Creating custom shape functions: playing card suits
Putting it all together: drawing a jet

CHAPTER 3: WORKING WITH IMAGES AND VIDEOS
Introduction
Drawing an image
Cropping an image
Copying and pasting sections of the canvas
Working with video
Getting image data
Introduction to pixel manipulation: inverting image colors
Inverting video colors
Converting image colors to grayscale
Converting a canvas drawing into a data URL
Saving a canvas drawing as an image
Loading the canvas with a data URL
Creating a pixelated image focus

CHAPTER 4: MASTERING TRANSFORMATIONS
Introduction
Translating the canvas context
Rotating the canvas context
Scaling the canvas context
Creating a mirror transform
Creating a custom transform
Shearing the canvas context
Handling multiple transforms with the state stack
Transforming a circle into an oval
Rotating an image
Drawing a simple logo and randomizing its position, rotation, and scale

CHAPTER 5: BRINGING THE CANVAS TO LIFE WITH ANIMATION
Introduction
Creating an Animation class
Creating a linear motion
Creating acceleration
Creating oscillation
Oscillating a bubble
Swinging a pendulum
Animating mechanical gears
Animating a clock
Simulating particle physics
Creating microscopic life forms
Stressing the canvas and displaying the FPS

CHAPTER 6: INTERACTING WITH THE CANVAS: ATTACHING EVENT LISTENERS TO SHAPES AND REGIONS 
Introduction
Creating an Events Class
Working With Canvas Mouse Coordinates
Attaching Mouse Event Listeners to Regions
Attaching Touch Event Listeners to Regions on a Mobile Device
Attaching Event Listeners to Images
Dragging-And-Dropping Shapes
Dragging-And-Dropping Images
Creating an Image Magnifier
Creating a Drawing Application

CHAPTER 7: CREATING GRAPHS AND CHARTS
Introduction
Creating a pie chart
Creating a bar chart
Graphing equations
Plotting data points with a line chart

CHAPTER 8: SAVING THE WORLD WITH GAME DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
Creating sprite sheets for the heroes and enemies
Creating level images and boundary maps
Creating an Actor class for the hero and enemies
Creating a Level class
Creating a Health Bar class
Creating a Controller class
Creating a Model class
Creating a View class
Setting up the HTML document and starting the game

CHAPTER 9: INTRODUCING WEBGL
Introduction
Creating a WebGL wrapper to simplify the WebGL API
Creating a triangular plane
Rotating a triangular plane in 3D space
Creating a rotating cube
Adding textures and lighting
Creating a 3D world that you can explore

The last chapters about animations and game developments are probably the most interesting ones, especially they all include detailed walk-through of the techniques discussed. Here's for example an example from Chapter 5, 'Oscillating a bubble':

<script src="animation.js"></script>
<script>
    window.onload = function(){
        // instantiate new animation object
        var anim = new Animation("myCanvas");
        var context = anim.getContext();
        var canvas = anim.getCanvas();
        
        anim.setDrawStage(function(){
            // update
            var widthScale = Math.sin(this.getTime() / 200) * 0.1 + 0.9;
            var heightScale = -1 * Math.sin(this.getTime() / 200) * 0.1 + 0.9;

            // clear
            this.clear();
            
            //draw
            context.beginPath();
            context.save();
            context.translate(canvas.width / 2, canvas.height / 2);
            context.scale(widthScale, heightScale);
            context.arc(0, 0, 65, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
            context.restore();
            context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
            context.fill();
            context.lineWidth = 2;
            context.strokeStyle = "#555";
            context.stroke();
            
            context.beginPath();
            context.save();
            context.translate(canvas.width / 2, canvas.height / 2);
            context.scale(widthScale, heightScale);
            context.arc(-30, -30, 15, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
            context.restore();
            context.fillStyle = "white";
            context.fill();
        });
        
        anim.start();
    };
</script>

All in all, a book definitely worth reading!

1. Set up the static and media paths settings

# the site root is one level up from where settings.py is
SITE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)).rsplit('/', 1)[0]
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')
MEDIA_URL = '/static/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/adminmedia1.3/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/uploads/'
STATIC_URL = '/media/static/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/static/admin/'

# Absolute path to the directory that holds media uploaded
# I keep the uploads folder at the project-root level server
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'uploads') 

# physical location of extra static files in development server
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'myproject/static'),
)
# path used with "python manage.py collectstatic"
# I normally put this at the project-root level that contains also the wsgi files for apache
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'apache/static')

Alias /media/uploads/ /path/to/mysite.com/uploads/
Alias /media/static/ /path/to/mysite.com/apache/static/

In previous versions of Django, it was common to place static assets in MEDIA_ROOT along with user-uploaded files, and serve them both at MEDIA_URL. Part of the purpose of introducing the staticfiles app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded files. For this reason, you need to make your MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL different from your STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL. The STATIC_ROOT directory is not necessary in the development server: in fact is only used if you call the collectstatic manangement command. It's not needed to add the directory to the STATICFILES_DIRS setting to serve your static files! Furthemore, the STATICFILES_DIRS variable tells Django of the location of static files which are not within specific applications. Mind that during the 'collection' operations also these files will be copied into the STATIC_ROOT directory.

2. Add context processors and the app

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += 'django.core.context_processors.static'

INSTALLED_APPS = (
....    
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',    
.....
)

Keep in mind that it's very likely that in your templates you will have to manually change all references to MEDIA_URL into STATIC_URL!

3. Url configuration

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

WARNING: the staticfiles_urlpatterns helper function will only work if DEBUG is True and your STATIC_URL setting is neither empty nor a full URL such as http://static.example.com/ (more info here).

if settings.LOCAL_SERVER:     # ===> static files on local machine    
    urlpatterns += patterns('', 
        (r'^media/uploads/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', 
            {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
        )

if settings.LOCAL_SERVER:     # ===> static files on local machine
    from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()    
    urlpatterns += patterns('', 
        (r'^media/uploads/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', 
            {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),
        )

4. On your production server

python manage.py collectstatic

What are the key entities in the sculpture domain?

• - People, such as craftsman's etc..
• - Sculptures (of various kinds)
• - Materials
• - Tools
• - Generic processes that are part of a sculpting project, such as quarrying and transport.
• - More specific methods being used within a particular process, e.g. carving styles, or approaches to quarrying.
• - Traditions, conceptualisations of the 'way of doing things' that, in turn, can inspire the way methods and processes are carried out nowadays.

Fleshing out the model a bit more

Tip: A useful place where to get info about Lion is here: http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/

1. Wi-Fi disconnection issues

1. run kextstat | grep -i atheros if a line was returned, you are most likely using Atheros WiFi card and the related kext 2. In your home folder create two directories: cd && mkdir New Old 3. If you have a copy (time machine backup) or other system installed with Snow Leopard (as latest as possible), take a copy of /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext and put it into ~/Old/ directory [P.S. if you don't know where to get that file, I've uploaded a copy here: IO80211Family.kext.zip] 4. (Back on to your main system) gain root access: sudo -s 5. Move: mv /System/Library/Extensions/IO80211Family.kext ~/New/ 6. Move cache file: mv /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache ~/New/ 7. copy old kext: cp -r ~/Old/IO80211Family.kext /System/Library/Extensions/ 8. go to: cd /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/ 9. rebuild cache: kextcache -v 1 -a i386 -a x86_64 -mkext kernelcache /System/Library/Extensions 10. Using GUI Utilities->Disk Utility->Macintosh HD->Repair permissions 11. pray and reboot

2. Install the latest Xcode and Developer Tools

When installing XCode, for some unknown unholy rea­son, if you have not quit itunes, and itunes helper (see activ­ity mon­i­tor) prior to start­ing the XCode installer, the install will hang. Do your­self a favor and kill it with fire.

- Remem­ber; the binary direc­tory for the dev tools is in /Developer/usr/bin/ — this includes gcc-4.2 - Do your­self a favor, drop “export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"” into your .bash_profile.

3. Fix your Python installation

1. Make a list of all the third-party libraries you currently have installed under Python 2.6, because you’ll have to reinstall all of them for 2.7 and you won’t have the 2.6 site-packages directory to refer to. 2. Update to Lion. 3. Update to Xcode 4.1. It’s free in the App Store.

defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Version 2.7

a) Download the 2.7 version of setuptools and install it (e.g. sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg); b) re-install iPython via setuptools: sudo easy_install ipython

4. The Mercurial binaries disappeared

5. Omnigraffle can't save files anymore

6. Java runtime missing

7. The Finder Sidebar Icons colours (well lack of..) are depressing

- Download and install SIMBL, which you can get here - Download the ColorfulSidebar SIMBL plugin (direct link) or visit the developers home and mount the DMG file - Move the ColorfulSidebar.bundle into the following SIMBL plugin folder: ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/ - Either login and logout of Mac OS X, or just kill the Finder through the Terminal to relaunch it: killall Finder

8. Safari Won't Reopen To HomePage

9. The CD-TO utility disappeared

10. Visor doesn't work anymore

11. VmwareFusion won't work

12. Customize the Finder

chflags nohidden ~/Library/

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

13. Get the Old Apple Mail Back

14. .. ? (still looking for it!)

 

]]> http://www.michelepasin.org/techblog/2011/10/19/upgrading-to-lion-tips-and-tricks/feed/ 2 http://www.michelepasin.org/techblog/2011/10/13/seminar-tagore-digital-editions-and-bengali-textual-computing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seminar-tagore-digital-editions-and-bengali-textual-computing http://www.michelepasin.org/techblog/2011/10/13/seminar-tagore-digital-editions-and-bengali-textual-computing/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:01:52 +0000 mike http://www.michelepasin.org/techblog/?p=1603 DDH research seminar) highlighted a number of issues I personally wasn't much familiar with, so in this post I'm summarising them a bit and then highlighting a couple of possible suggestions. Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), where he was formerly Professor of English and Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records. His core specializations are in Renaissance literature and in textual studies: he published The Metaphysics of Text from Cambridge University Press in 2010. He has also translated widely from Bengali into English, and is General Editor of the Oxford Tagore Translations. Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), the first nobel laureate of Asia, was arguably the most important icon of modern Indian Renaissance. This recent project on the electronic collation of Tagore texts, called 'the Bichitra project', is being developed as part of the national commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of the poet (here's the official page). This is how the School of Cultural Texts and Records summarizes the project's scope:

The School is carrying out pioneer work in computer collation of Tagore texts and creation of electronic hypertexts incorporating all variant readings. The first software for this purpose in any Indian language, named “Pathantar” (based on the earlier version “Tafat”), has been developed by the School. Two pilot projects have been carried out using this software, for the play Bisarjan (Sacrifice) and the poetical collection Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat). The CD/DVDs contain all text files of all significant variant versions in manuscript and print, and their collation using the ”Pathantar” software. The DVD of Sonar Tari also contains image files of all the variant versions. These productions are the first output of the series “Jadavpur Electronic Tagore”. Progressing from these early endeavours, we have now undertaken a two-year project entitled "Bichitra" for a complete electronic variorum edition of all Tagores works in English and Bengali. The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and is being conducted in collaboration with Rabindra-Bhavana, Santiniketan. The target is to create a website which will contain (a) images of all significant variant versions, in manuscript and print, of all Tagores works; (b) text files of the same; and (c) collation of all versions applying the "Pathantar" software. To this end, the software itself is being radically redesigned. Simultaneously, manuscript and print material is being obtained and processed from Rabindra-Bhavana, downloaded from various online databases, and acquired from other sources. Work on the project commenced in March 2011 and is expected to end in March 2013, by which time the entire output will be uploaded onto a freely accessible website.

 

A few interesting points

Tagore, as Sukanta noted, "wrote voluminously and revised extensively". From a DH point of view this means that creating a comprehensive digital edition of his works would require a lot of effort - much more than what we could easily pay people for, if we wanted to mark up all of this text manually. For this reason it is fundamental to find some type of semi-automatic methods for aligning and collating Tagore's texts, e.g. the ”Pathantar” software. Follows a screenshot of the current collation interface.

The Bengali language, which is used by Tagore, is widely spoken in the world (it is actually one of the most spoken languages, with nearly 300 million total speakers). However this language poses serious problems for a DH project. In particular, the writing system is extremely difficult to parse using traditional OCR technologies: its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters but as diacritics attached to its consonant letters. Furthermore clusters of consonants are represented by different and sometimes quite irregular forms, thus learning to read is complicated by the sheer size of the full set of letters and letter combinations, numbering about 350 (from wikipedia).

One of the critical points that emerged during the discussion had to do with the visual presentation of the results of the collation software. Given the large volume of text editions they're dealing with, and the potential vast amount of variations between one edition and the others, a powerful and interactive visualization mechanism seems to be strongly needed. However it's not clear what are the possible approaches on this front..

Textual computing, Sukanta pointed out, is not as developed in India as it is in the rest of the world. As a consequence, in the context of the "Bichitra" project widely used approaches based on TEI and XML technologies haven't really been investigated enough. The collation software mentioned above obviously marks up the text in some way; however this markup remains hidden to the user and much likely it is not compatible with other standards. More work would thus be desirable in this area - in particular within the Indian continent.

Food for thought

On the visualization of the results of a collation. Some inspiration could be found in the type of visualizations normally used in version control software systems, where multiple and alternative versions of the same file must be tracked and shown to users. For example, we could think of the visualizations available on GitHub (a popular code-sharing site), which are described on this blog post and demonstrated via an interactive tool on this webpage. Here's a screenshot: The situation is striking similar - or not? Would it be feasible to reuse one of these approaches with textual sources? Another relevant visualization is the one used by popular file-comparison softwares (eg File Merge on a Mac) for showing differences between two files:

On using language technologies with Bengali. I did a quick tour of what's available online, and (quite unsurprisingly, considering the reputation Indian computer scientists have) found several research papers which seem highly relevant. Here's a few of them: - Asian language processing: current state-of-the-art [text] - Research report on Bengali NLP engine for TTS [text] - The Emile corpus, containing fourteen monolingual corpora, including both written and (for some languages) spoken data for fourteen South Asian languages [homepage] - A complete OCR system for continuous Bengali characters [text] - Parsing Bengali for Database Interface [text] - Unsupervised Morphological Parsing of Bengali [text]

On open-source softwares that appear to be usable with Bengali text. Not a lot of stuff, but more than enough to get started (the second project in particular seems pretty serious): - Open Bangla OCR - A BDOSDN (Bangladesh Open Source Development Network) project to develop a Bangla OCR - Bangla OCR project, mainly focused on the research and development of an Optical Character Recognizer for Bangla / Bengali script

 

Any comments and/or ideas?

 

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MPTT: Utilities for implementing a modified pre-order traversal tree in django

REGISTRATION: A user-registration application for Django.

DJANGO EXTENSIONS: global custom management extensions for the Django Framework.

PICKLEFIELD: an implementation of a pickled object field.

The other things included in the framework are:

a settings.py file that calls localized settings specifications depending on parameters (eg dev server or live one)

a bunch of generic python utilities

a few 'enhanced' model classes

all that is needed for working with trees in the admin (as discussed here: Django admin and MPTT)

a javascript autocomplete framework, integrated in the admin (as discussed here: Autocomplete in Django)

some basic templates and templatetags

Enjoy!

 

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