Status: Holiday
Location: Somewhere in YorkshireBandwidth: Good
Having setup a fairly shiny VPN into my home network I've now settled on a new programming project.
I've been looking at Django for a while and it looks very nice. It looks to have all the features needed to build the technology company management tool that has always eluded me. The first version was in PHP, the second in Zope and this ha recently been replaced by Deltek (which is IMHO utterly unusable). However, the task of writing another version of the technology company management tool is not to be undertaken lightly. Hence, for now I need something more manageable.
So I plan to write a Django app hosted on a server inside the VPN. The app could be a dry run for the management tool. Its purpose will be to manage a patent portfolio. I have no idea what it will be called.
Here's what it should be able to do:
1) Provide local and persistent storage for a collection of patents
2) Make a lightweight but obvious distinction between core and related patents
3) Provide nice ways to browse the citation relationships between the patents
4) Provide means to group and separate the commercial interests of the patent holders
5) Have nice GUI widgets akin to tag clouds and mappings
6) Be capable of scraping data from google patents
7) Be capable of scraping data from espacenet
Maybe we should make this a time bounded exercise. How about 3 months?
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