DSFDB
The DSFDB (abbr. For German Speculative Fiction Database ) was an open-source project, which is based the ISFDB (Internet Speculative Fiction Database) with the establishment of a free database German on the subject of science fiction - Fantasy - and horror literature dealt .
Content and story
The public and after the Wiki collected data principle under the Public content - license .
The project idea arose in March 2003 as a forum discussion at SF-Fan.de and, after lengthy preparation and discussion, was implemented in September 2003 as the domain dsfdb.org. Since then, the project has been continuously expanded and refined. In the middle of the year, the initiator of the SFHINX project, which had been discontinued in 2001, joined the group and took over the development of the database.
The development team, which is divided into a database group, a web end group and a data content group , creates a reference database and an associated user interface for German-language science fiction, fantasy and horror literature, international film and television and radio plays with regard to data on authors (authors, Editors, directors, etc.) and their works, publishers and their editions or prizes (awards) and their organizers, taking into account the data of related and thematically supplementary literature in other languages, authors, publishers and prizes (awards).
The project has not been actively used since 2011. However, the ISFDB now offers the possibility of recording non-English works and linking them to the original language works.
technology
The portal to the MySQL database is operated under the open source software Mambo .
The data recorded in the database come either from the personal data collections of the members of dsfdb.org, the data entered by users via the web end or were or are made available to the team from so-called data sources.
Both the source of the web end and the definition of the database are under the GNU General Public License . The data can be used under dsfdb.org's own Open Content license.
In order to limit the abuse of data and to keep the quality of the content as high as possible, the data at dsfdb.org are not entered or processed directly in the official content. Entries and changes to the content are made in a so-called import database. The raw data contained in this is viewed, edited, subjected to a plausibility check by editors of the project group and only then transferred to the official content of the web end. The programs required for this to automatically check the entries or to find the data records suggested for manual checking and the programs for merging the two data contingents are also designed and programmed by the project group. A Delphi development environment is used for this.
Sister projects
DSFDB.org should also serve as an initial project for similar projects with different language focuses in other countries. It was intended and desired that interested science fiction fans use the developed software for their own projects, develop it further, translate and adapt it. In particular, the creation of databases with science fiction literature in languages other than German was supported.
The ISFDB switched to a technically comparable system in 2005 with the involvement of the community.