DAN Europe and Subsurface

[Miika Turkia]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Robert Helling <helling at atdotde.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02.12.2016, at 16:00, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>
> wrote:
>
> "I believe it is important to meet and discuss your plans to incorporate
> your study with the DAN Diver Safety Guardian (DSG) platform. Mainly because
> most of what you mentioned and suggested is already available and in place
> via the DAN DSG platform. The Subsurface platform has been used for many
> years by DAN Europe to convert and transfer dive computer data into the DSG
> platform. In fact the DAN Europe team has been hard at work with the
> Subsurface team to integrate the Subsurface software into the DSG platform."
>
> Does anyone know anything about this initiative?
>
>
> As far as I can remember, there has not been too much activity in this
> direction, this is also what googling for DAN
> site:lists.subsurface-divelog.org produces:
>
> http://www.lmgt.com/?q=DAN+site%3Alists.subsurface-divelog.org
>
> Somebody came up with a (very long) definition of their file format, then
> there was a comment that took me longer to find as I remembered it coming
> from Linus, our head of department of Strong Statements, but it was Dirk,
> quoting:
>
>> I have the specification (see attachment). No idea where I got it, or how
>> up-to-date it is, but this is always better than nothing :-)
>
> Wow. I never thought I would say this. But UDDF is an entirely sane
> format compared to that.
>
> What is wrong with these people???
>
> /D
>
> Then, a bit later, there is a single message from a DAN Europe guy that got
> a single response (by Miika):
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
> overall this sounds good to me. We currently integrate e.g. with
> divelogs.de by quite a simple API. Basically we convert our XML to the
> one used by divelogs.de and then upload the file through webservices
> API. Of course this integration has also download option, which we
> might not need with your interface. Anyway, a sensible XML format and
> sensible API to upload would be easiest for us. (More comments below.)
>
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Andrea Covelli
> <acovelli at dsl.daneurope.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m Andrea Covelli, the developer of the new DAN Europe website to collect
>> diving profiles, Diver Safety Guardian (DSG). The website is accessible on
>> https://www.daneuropedsl.org and you will need your DAN ID and MyDan
>> password in order to access it.
>>
>> Considering that it is multi-platform open-source and the wide range of
>> compatible diving computer, we already suggest to use Subsurface to
>> download
>> and export the profiles in UDDF, in order to upload them on the DSG.
>
> Good to hear :D
>
>> During the last EUDI Show, while I was presenting the web site,  I met
>> Filippo and we had the idea to have a better integration between the two
>> systems.
>>
>> I developed an API that allow to upload dive profile directly on the DSG.
>>
>> I would like to start to implement it, but I would appreciate any comment
>> and help in developing this.
>
> We are happy to work on this from our side. We have thought about DAN
> integration before but the old format (D7) looked a bit too hard to
> implement, so work on that never took off...
>
>> I attach the web service specification.
>
> The specification looks like you are expecting different format from
> the API than UDDF? Am I correct with this? For us, it would be easier
> if the uploaded information and profile were in XML. The other
> communication can be JSON or other sensible WEB stuff. We do currently
> support exporting to CSV using XSL transforms, so XML is not that
> strict requirement for the output, but preferable nontheless.
>
>> Thank you so much for your interest and help
>
> likewise
>
> mike
>
>
> but it seems we never heard back. But there are also commit
> 46074ebf215506e53059ff41eeb1355f8cb2ee1f and following which apparently add
> the possibility to import DL7. But I don’t think we knowingly export, let
> alone upload.

Should have seen your narration before responding. I nominate Robert
our email archaeologist :D

miika