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About this site
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===============
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This web application is based on the CubicWeb knowledge management system
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from Logilab_. CubicWeb is made of an object database and a web
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framework. It allows to develop an application by defining a set of
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entities and their relationships, plus a set of views that present the
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data selected from the object database using a specific query language.
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This application has a precise schema_ and can be considered an
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example of a semantic web database, as it can export the data to XML
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and others formats and is not limited to publishing HTML.
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Supported formats: |microformats|_ - JSON_ - |rss|_ - |dublincore|_
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.. |microformats| image:: /data/microformats-button.png
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.. _microformats: http://microformats.org
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.. _JSON: http://www.json.org/
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.. |rss| image:: /data/rss-button.png
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.. _rss: http://www.rssboard.org
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.. |dublincore| image:: /data/dublincore-button.png
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.. _dublincore: http://dublincore.org
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.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
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.. _schema: schema