Procuring External Data
Before we can start manipulating data with Node.js, we have to get it. The data weâll be using comes from Project Gutenberg, which is dedicated to making public-domain works available as free ebooks.[34]
Project Gutenberg produces catalog download bundles that contain Resource Description Framework (RDF) files for each of its 53,000-plus books. (RDF is an XML-based format.) The bz2 compressed version of the catalog file is about 40 MB. Fully extracted, it contains a little over 1 GB of RDF files.
To begin, create two sibling directories on your machine, called databases and data.
| â | â$ ââmkdirââ ââdatabasesâ |
| â | â$ ââmkdirââ ââdataâ |
The databases project directory will hold all of ...
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