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Updates:
Jun 30, 2011:
More functionality prototyped. See screenshots.
Jun 30, 2010:
Development resumed.
Jun 1, 2009:
Project work suspended (but not abandoned!).
Apr 14, 2009:
Composition Library Project launched.
Why and how to contribute
The Composition Library Project is seeking collaborators. Anyone who is interested in the aims of this project can help in its development providing they have a conceptual understanding of change-ringing, methods and compositions. Software development skills will be extremely useful, but are only necessary for some of the roles.
Four phases to the project have been identified:
- Development of the client software
- User interface design
- Functional desgin
- Database design
- Software development
- Testing
- Release
- Development of the server software environment
- Website design
- Database design
- User sign on and maintenance
- Security and backup
- Database administration
- Building up the library of compositions
- Manual input of compositions from published sources
- Manual input of compositions by composers
- Automated loads from processed electronic sources
- Analysis of similar compositions for originality
- Checking and improving data quality
- Data administration
- Development of a web-based client
- Determine features to be made available
- User interface design
- Internal design
- Database design
- Software development
- Testing
- Release
If you would like to be involved in the project then you can register your interest by registering as a user on SourceForge and emailing your SourceForge username, together with details of how you would like to help, to .
A mailing list for the project, complib-talk, has been set up. Anyone is welcome to join at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/complib-talk
Reasons to participate:
- if you are likely to be a user of Composition Library when it is developed, you can influence what features it will have and how easy it will be to use
- if you are fascinated by technical challenges in ringing theory, there are algorithms to be developed and some interesting design problems to overcome
- if you are good at user interface design, programming, databases, or testing then the project would appreciate your help
- if you would like to see a comprehensive and definitive collection of compositions, then your help in inputting and checking data, or maintaining the data, would be most welcome
- the software is being developed as an open source project created for the participation and benefit of the change ringing exercise
Join the project now!
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