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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please.
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Horst Herb |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please. |
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Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:23:26 +1100 |
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:34, Hilmar Berger wrote:
> > My idea was this: there is a clear difference between
> > *incorporating* drug data into GnuMed (as in tying
> > programmatic access deeply into our code) and *interfacing* to
> > existing databases.
>
> I feel that interfacing to a large number of proprietary APIs might be more
> difficult than implementing a direct access to some basic drug database.
> Drugref or some rudimentary form of curated substance list might be
> sufficient for the beginning.
Drugref has both.
However, maintenance of regularly updated commercial database services are a
pain when their structure differs a lot from drugref's structure - I found it
easier to store them in their "native" structure and access them via API
middleware rather than importing and polluting the free drugref database.
Horst
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- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Ian Haywood, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Horst Herb, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Hilmar Berger, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Hilmar Berger, 2005/01/07
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/07
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- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Horst Herb, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Horst Herb, 2005/01/06
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/06
Re: [Gnumed-devel] Time for a major re-think in 2005 - opinions please., Karsten Hilbert, 2005/01/05
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