This paper explores how modern technologies like cloud-services and mobile
devices can improve existing transcription methods. After a brief exploration of
existing projects in the field of access, organisation, transcription and analysis of
digital representations of cultural heritage, this paper introduces a new approach,
unlike XML technology, to TEI data storage and organisation
"Nesting performs a join across two buckets. But instead of producing a cross-product of the left and right hand inputs, a single result is produced for each left hand input, while the corresponding right hand inputs are collected into an array and nested as a single array-valued field in the result object."
* Complex Joins of Data.
* Multi-Step Map/Reduce.
Couch Views are pretty much islands unto themselves. If you need to aggregate/merge/intersect a set of views you pretty much have to do so in the application layer for now
The talk gives an introduction to CouchDB by showing the implementing of a simple Wiki Rails application that I have imp
"think in documents & views not in records and associations"