diff -r 000000000000 -r b97547f5f1fa web/wdoc/about_en.rst --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/web/wdoc/about_en.rst Wed Nov 05 15:52:50 2008 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +About this site +=============== + +This web application is based on the CubicWeb knowledge management system +from Logilab_. CubicWeb is made of an object database and a web +framework. It allows to develop an application by defining a set of +entities and their relationships, plus a set of views that present the +data selected from the object database using a specific query language. + +This application has a precise schema_ and can be considered an +example of a semantic web database, as it can export the data to XML +and others formats and is not limited to publishing HTML. + +Supported formats: |microformats|_ - JSON_ - |rss|_ - |dublincore|_ + +.. |microformats| image:: /data/microformats-button.png +.. _microformats: http://microformats.org +.. _JSON: http://www.json.org/ +.. |rss| image:: /data/rss-button.png +.. _rss: http://www.rssboard.org +.. |dublincore| image:: /data/dublincore-button.png +.. _dublincore: http://dublincore.org + +.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/ +.. _schema: schema