The DSFDB (German speculative fiction data base) is an open SOURCE project, which is concerned in support of the ISFDB (Internet Speculative Fiction DATA cousin) with the structure of a free data base for the topic of German Science Fiction/Fantasy and horror literature.

The publicly accessible and data collected according to the Wiki principle stand under the publication IC content license.

The project idea developed in March 2003 as forum discussion with SF-Fan.de and after longer preparation and discussion in September 2003 than Domain dsfdb.org to the execution was brought. For this time the project is constantly extended and refined. Center of the yearly was pushed also the initiator of the project SFHINX stopped since 2001 to the group and took over the development of the data base bases.

The developer team, which divides into a group of data bases, a group of weaving and a group of data contents, provides a reference data base and an associated user interface for German-language Science Fiction, Fantasy and horror literature, international film and television and radio play regarding data at authors (authors, publisher, Ressigeuren, etc.) and their works, publishing houses and their expenditures and/or prices (Awards) and to their aligners, with consideration of the data associated and thematically supplementing, anderssprachiger one literature, authors, publishing houses and prices (Awards).

Technically seen with a MySQL server in baking and with a PHP SQL based weaving one works. The portal to the data base under the open SOURCE software "“Mambo"” operated.

The group of developers informs itself development-technically over www.sourceforge.net, where the CVS and the most diverse communication tools are available free of charge in addition and operates three mailing lists with Yahoo.de.

The data taken up in the data base originate either from the personal data collections of the members from dsfdb.org, that by the weaving from users entered data or and/or the data content team from so-called data sources to the order are placed.

Both the SOURCE of the Webends, and the definition of the data base stand under the GPL. The data are usable under a dsfdb.org - own open content license.

In order to rear-stop and the quality of contents keep the abuse with data inputs as high as possible, the data are entered with dsfdb.org not directly into the official content and/or worked on. Inputs and changes to the content are brought into a so-called import data base. In these contained raw data by lectors of the project group are sighted, lektoriert, of a plausibility check submitted and only then into the official content of the Webends transferred. The programs for the automatic examination of the inputs and/or for the location of the data records, suggested necessary for it, for manual examination and the programs for the Merging of the two data contingents are likewise sketched and programmed by the project group. In addition a Delphi Entwicklungsumgebung is used.

DSFDB.org understands also as initial project for homogeneous projects with other language emphasis in other countries. It is intended and desired that interested SF-fans use the developed software in this connection for own projects, develops further, translates and adapts. In particular the structure of data bases with SF-literature in other languages than German is supported.

That the path, which the developers and operator of dsfdb.org took, into which correct direction points shows that those likewise transferred the thought underlying data base of ISFDB in the year 2005 to a technically comparable system including the Community.

Related links

• Web page of the DSFDB
• Web page of the ISFDB

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