JS-R is working on providing a new angle on Canadian census data by pre-calculating, and making available through a Web interface, two measures which express how segregated or integrated individual groups are within Canadian cities. He has a contract programmer working on a pilot of this, using PHP and mySQL, and wants us to take over and maintain/extend the project after the first phase is done.

Wrote to sysadmin to get a TAPOR project id and group set up, along with a domain (segregation.uvic.ca). JS-R will provide some basic intro material for the site, which we'll set up ahead of a presentation he's giving on June 3; the site will initially point at the pilot application on the external developer's site, for the purposes of that presentation, and then the code will be moved over to our server. At that point, we'll most likely move from mySQL to Postgres, to take advantage of better support for Views, since the queries are very calculation-heavy.