Unidentified spider constructing rolled leaf refuge.
Things weren’t really cleaned up enough for a big release announcement in October, though almost every page has had an update in the last month. In addition to narrative ‘drill-down’ pages, all the other arachb.org/arachb/ARACHB_xxxxxxx identifiers that correspond to something in the database now resolve to simple pages. The narrative drill-down pages (such as this) generate a table of their component events. They can generate both html and json, the later is (in many cases) simply the ‘tunneled’ json that Owlbuilder serializes into an rdfs:comment annotation (as discussed here). These still need some tweaking and there is still information for ordering the events in the narrative. This, table pagination, and some javascript cleanup remain before I could consider a release. Then it will be time for some more curation and thoughts of updating the curation tool (python 3.5 and pyramid and mysql -> postgres).
Owlbuilder and server backend code are gradually migrating to Java 1.8. Meanwhile Oracle’s cloud-related noises are making me nervous about the future of Java on non-Oracle environments. Events conspire to make me nervous about Java every couple of years, so maybe it’s not time to worry yet.
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