Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] New user data: how?

[David R Newman]

My preference would be for the functional option.  This need not be just a 
third party field but also visible through myExperiment so that a user can 
expose extra information about themselves that is not currently 
categorised.  Providing such flexibility may allow for improved design the 
future.  E.g. we might discover that a lot of people want to post a link to 
their blog or something.


--On Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:39:36 +0000 "Linde, A.E." 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> This is a question I raised a while back but now need to sort out. There
> is a piece of information I need to store against each User in their
> Profile or Account details that will be used in the Spacebok variant of
> myExperiment. But rather than just this single piece of information (as
> it happens, the endpoint for that user’s annotations triplestore), I
> think we need a solution for anyone extending myExperiment to store extra
> information.
>
> I guess the solution needs to be either procedural or functional:
>
> Procedural: in that there is a way in which changes to the database
> structure can be retained by the extended codebase without being
> overwritten by future changes to the core codebase.
>
> Functional: such as a 3rd party field in each table where those creating
> extensions can store data (eg in a text field which contains XML data
> with something like <3rd Party><App1><app1 data.../></App1><App2...
> /></3rd Party>).
>
> What do people think.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony.
>
> --
> Tony Linde
> Project Manager
> Department of Physics & Astronomy
> University of Leicester