[p2p-hackers] Bitzi (was Various identifier choices)

[Brandon Wiley]

> The next priority is an HTTP GET or POST which dumps summary info 
> about one or more given hashes (by SHA1 or full Bitprint). The
> summary info will definitely be XML, it might be proper RDF.
> Suggestions and commentary from interested parties can definitely
> shape what is offered; wishlists and preferences, here or at
> our website discussion forums would be appreciated.

My preference is certainly for an RDF dump via HTTP. I'm going to be
demoing at O'Reilly my P2P searching technology. It works by gathering RDF
databases of metadata. It was originally developed for Freenet, but I'm
working on integration with MojoNation and BitTorrent. I'd like to add
Bitzi as another system which can be searched in order to find URLs to
content in various networks. If Bitzi provides a straight RDF dump of its
whole database then it can act simply as a catalog source and searching
can be done in my application. If Bitzi provides an implementation of the
searching API either via the CGI version of the API or the XML-RPC version
then it can actually be used as a drop-in replacement for the search
engine part of the application.

I've very interested in the interoperability of systems and I think it
would be great to have a centralized metadata catalog as well as the
decentralized catalogs which can exist in MN and BT. Centralized catalogs
have distinct advantages at times. Bitzi is in a fine position to serve
that role. All that really needs to be done to get things started is to
provider an RDF serialization of the database via HTTP.