Free, shareable, OPEN databases

Free, shareable, OPEN databases.

In the months ahead -I am very busy right now-, I will be planning to create one or more websites where people will be able to upload databases, and manage, manipulate, operate, re-arrange them (theirs and other people's databases), issue queries, et cetera, in/at the same website(s), just as in www.youtube.com people can upload videos.

Currently, we rely on what search engines as Yahoo, Lexxe, Google, Wolframalpha, Hotbot, Cuil, Ask, Clusty, et cetera show us, but we cannot get real access to their databases. Their bots "travel" and visit millions of websites but when it comes to retrieving and showing, they show us what they want only.

Now, the databases I am speaking of will be created or filled by the people themselves, by typing their favorites websites in an alphabetical order, or chronological order or another hierarchically form of classification they may think of. In the third or fourth column it could be located the link to the official website of the product mentioned/cited in the first column, exempli gratia, in a Brands database, "Chanel No. 5" in the first column, "perfume" in the second column, (in the third column, I do not know yet), in the fourth column a link to the official website of Chanel; Quaker Oats in the first column... et cetera. In another database, in a Famous people database, "Newton, Isaac" in the first column; in the second column, "physicist, mathematician"; in the third column, "English"; in the fourth column, "(1642-1727)”, in the fifth column, a link to the entry called “Isaac Newton” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica or to the Newton entry in the Wikipedia, or both, et cetera. Another database could be one about timeline history. In the first column, a date or a year, for example 1859; in the second column, or "who" column ("Charles Darwin", for example); in the third column or "what" column, "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, publication of", although in this case the full name will not be visible for the reader, perhaps only, "Origin of Species by Me.." and so on...

It will be some sort of free crowdsourcing; id est, anyone will be able to add data, or to create a new database.

I am thinking about NoSQL, and perhaps people will be able to view the results of their queries in a PSEUDO-DATABASE form, so the files do not have so much weight in gigabytes, et cetera.

Pseudo-databases are different from fake databases. Fake databases are real databases with fake / false data. I will be calling "pseudo-databases" to files with real data, but they will have only the look or resemblance of a database.

Though, in an underlying / subjacent layer, the computers will be managing / operating / re-arranging, real databases.

I want to build a very, very user friendly website.

Do I need to know PHP?

Alejandro Ochoa G.

From Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico. Friday, March 15, 2013.