anansi-project/rfcs

Brainstorming on adoption

rishighan opened this issue · 2 comments

rishighan commented

Hello! I am developing a comic book curation webapp, and have made some progress on various fronts. I stumbled across this initiative a little too late, I must admit. My app offers ComicVine scraping against a local library of comic books (no manga support)

To that end, my biggest frustrations have been:

  1. Defining what a comic book even is, in the context of volumes, series, trade paperbacks, alternate covers?

  2. ComicVine... and the documentation on what seems to be the only reliable API that gives us some metadata about comic books. But to parse meaning out of it and present that to users whose primary objective is to curate their collection is nothing short of pulling teeth. Their metadata, while comprehensive is inconsistent, missing, and sometimes duplicative or incorrect.

That said, it is still a very easy setup and possibly a good starting point to look at in terms of adoption.

  1. Offering ways to meaningfully support the popular metadata formats (ComicRack et al)

My initial efforts are here: https://github.com/rishighan/threetwo-import-service/blob/76722ab6a1f1ebb8811e9f68f1803dccda20a9d9/models/comic.model.ts

I would love to get to know the extent of this effort and even adopt it.

Thanks for starting this and hope I can take pieces of it and find a way to contribute to this effort.

bpepple commented

My initial efforts are here: https://github.com/rishighan/threetwo-import-service/blob/76722ab6a1f1ebb8811e9f68f1803dccda20a9d9/models/comic.model.ts

Looks like an interesting little project. If I get some free time this weekend, I'll spin up a podman container and give it a try.

rishighan commented

Thanks! Let me know if you need help setting it up.