The good news is that DCX customers are no longer encumbered by the fear of losing access to software and firmware enhancements and are now free to choose the best and most cost effective support program available. Also starting in 2015 there will be yearly maintenance price increases of 10% for five (5) years until the DCX reaches End-of-Support. Historically going forward this means that there will be no new software upgrades, no new firmware enhancements and no new bug fixes. This section will have to be added to as the project proceeds, but for now assume a technology stack based around Ruby on Rails and Postgres.Īssuming you're able to get the app installed, there is a basic seed file available using a recent download fromĭ ® Communications (BRCD) has announced the initiation of End-of-Life (EOL) for its flagship DCX SAN director.

The database will be seeded using data sourced from Datakick, at least initially.

One aim is to provide a Datakick-compatible endpoint for developers of Datakick-related libraries to target. The initial goal for this project is to establish a migration path for users of existing APIs - notably Datakick. It's anticipated that the project will require novel protocols for federating data between disparate systems, and will be looking for inspiration from other distributed systems ( e.g. Instead the goal is to provide a framework for sharing product data between otherwise autonomous sources. The project is not intended to be a single source of truth for product data. rate limiting or requiring authorisation for certain tasks - but these will only be introduced for the sake of performance, security or similar concerns. There may be a need to apply some constraints - e.g. The code for providing the service will be released as open source (see LICENSE for details) and wherever possible the data will be made available under open licenses. The project aims to present as few barriers as possible to accessing GTIN and product data. For a universal dataset, UPC and related data isn't universally accessible. There are still numerous commercial providers, but the number of freely accessible product data sources seems to be severely limited, with the Internet UPC Database being one of the few open services able to sustain itself. Many of these projects have either stalled or disappeared: the Outpan API vanished without warning, Open Product Data doesn't appear to have been updated since 2014 and recently Datakick announced they will be shutting down as of March 31, 2020. Over the years there have been several attempts at creating a freely accessible database of GTIN/barcodes and associated product data. Open GTIN / barcode & product database Project Background

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