Atomic Data

[fricklerhandwerk]

Atomic Data is a modular specification for sharing, modifying and modeling graph data. It combines the ease of use of JSON, the connectivity of RDF (linked data) and the reliability of type-safety.

• NLnet project
  • source code:
    • https://github.com/atomicdata-dev/atomic-server
    • https://github.com/atomicdata-dev/atomic-data-browser

This project is actively developed, and the lead is interested in collaboration. We will figure out the best way to approach this, and it may involve some sort of onboarding if an upstream Nix setup is desired.

[joepio]

Hi! Awesome that you want to help out :)

I'll first make sure both Atomic-Server and Atomic-Data-Browser codebases are combined into one monorepo.

[fricklerhandwerk]

We can start with packaging the Rust backend, and then continue with the Typescript frontend when it's merged. Then testing both components in integration as well as building a module to run the service on NixOS would be possible.

[joepio]

It's merged! It's now one monorepo. Check the dockerfile for how it's currently built. Let me know if I can help in any way!

Thank you :)

[albertchae]

@ngi-nix/moss is claiming this. We will ask you about any questions we have about the project as we learn more about it @joepio !

[albertchae]

Brainstorming a plan of action (not necessarily in order):

• get a running instance of atomic data locally outside of nix – this was very helpful for debugging flarum issues
• potentially packaging pnpm with nix is difficult, @Chickensoupwithrice had some experience with this
• look into packaging rust separately and first (as suggested in Atomic Data #15 (comment)), hopefully it is decoupled enough
  • Looking through the repo, we think packaging https://github.com/atomicdata-dev/atomic-server/tree/develop/lib / https://crates.io/crates/atomic_lib is the first step