Questions from Developers

[ethanstrominger]

In regards to Summary of Oct 27 Meeting on Knowledgebase and BoP

Toe for Ethan: Since we will store metadata about content, could we use NoSQL for instance, MongoDB? We chose relational databases because the BOP will be synchronized with the Knowledge and PeopleDepot?
Ethan: If attributes of metadata are known I read an article that convinced me relation is better. I will try to dig up the article.
PostGres also lets you have JSON fields and you can refer to the JSON attributes.

Toe for Ethan: For the APIs, we just need to set up create and retrieve (to summarize the asset data) endpoints and do the deletions and updates from the Django admin portal tentatively speaking?
Ethan: Creation, deletions and updates can be done from Django admin with no API. An API will be needed to retrieve all information about an asset so other applications can use it. Depending on the UI and functional requirements, Django admin may also be able to provide the screen for viewing the summary data - probably not long term, maybe for MVP.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

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