Re: [Gnumed-devel] drugref2 in Oscar

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:41:27AM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> If FreeDiams would achieve the ability to import from
> multiple (or, better, a variety of concurrent) sources,
> would that include the German commercial database or would
> the proprietary realities likely keep the German database
> out of FreeDiams?

It would stay out of FreeDiams beyond what is given to use
over the official interface (which GNUmed *already* uses).

> I am just wondering whether the GNUmed "connection to external database" 
> method would be:
> 
>       German database (if German database desired)
> 
> else
> 
>       other proprietary db if unable to be imported into FreeDiams
>       (maybe requires *its* own custom gm interface)
>
> otherwise
> 
>       FreeDiams
>       (which can have imported the unrestricted sources)

Exactly. That is how we would use it.

GNUmed would try to parallelize access, however, in order to
maximize what it can learn from those databases.

Karsten
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