Siplicity Devlog

Devlog entry - Thursday, 3 October, 2024

Bake off - second attempt in the kitchen!

Two weeks ago I gave a first demonstration of Siplicity for the iPRES conference (the “bake off” stream). Many thanks to Micky, Dries, and the rest of the conference team for including me in the program.

My presentation was unfortunately a little undercooked. Many of the ingredients were there, but without enough time in the coding oven, and so I focused the presentation on Siplicity’s backend application (the GRPC server), which didn’t make for an appetizing meal.

OK, enough with the cooking puns! Here’s the demo of Siplicity I would have liked to have given:

In this screencast you can see that much of Siplicity’s basic functionality is now implemented in the frontend.

The screencast demonstrates:

• adding files and folders to an input graph
• manipulating the input graph (select, delete and move nodes to the output graph)
• running processes like file format identification and checksum calculation to enrich record metadata
• viewing record details and metadata
• manipulating the output graph and defining an output destination
• formatting the output graph as a bagit package
• committing the output graph to disk.