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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Any good repository for datasheets in pdf out there?
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:50 PM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am currently set up a project just to do the same - and even a little
>> bit more.
>>
>> My proposal is to set up a 'google-like' OSHW search enginge, which
>> chaches
>> - original data sheets in PDF, PS
>> - models (spice, IBIS, HDL, BSDL, ..)
>> - symboles and footprints (geda, kicad)
>> - OSHW schematics etc.
>>
>>
>> All findings should be referenced to the original, hashed by MD5/SHA2 and
>> tagged
>> w/ date/location/license.
>>
>
> You could come up with some simple text format

http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ does this and more already.

"GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access
human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles. The data is
stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary
number of named fields.  "

Sounds like it already does what several have proposed in this thread.

> properties of the project for indexing. Something like each record is a
> "key: value" line, such as:

That is what Recutils does with all of the database features added on.