[ModLib] Dust Jacket Date Range Project -- Why So Little Participation?

[Scot Kamins]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Ron Holl wrote:

> Perhaps it would help if there was a table(s) on the website showing  
> each title, and the known DJ end points.  Question marks, or some  
> such marker, indicate end points that are known to be likely/ 
> possibly incorrect; this fact is also noted by a gap in years.  For  
> example,
>
> Tale of Two Cities
>
> 1935 - 1939
> 1940 - 1953?
> 1958? - 1970

Well, that's an interesting idea that would work in a number of (but  
not all) cases. I like the question mark idea too -- I was going to  
use the math symbol for "approximately" (two horizontally parallel  
wavy lines which on my Mac is this character: ≈

So the range might be 1940 - ≈1953  (Does that show up on a PC?)
>
>
>
> Then, if someone has that plain text jacket in a 1954 dj, they use  
> the form submission on that page to indicate so.  Ideally it would  
> update the database immediately;

That WOULD be ideal. Of course, it would call for taking the entire  
author/title info -- currently in plain old typed text -- into a  
database of some sort. This would be a massive undertaking, and would  
call for someone with extraordinary planning & programming skills to   
(1) automate the process of transferring the data into the new data  
format(s);  (2) create the forms; and (3) set up the automation for  
the updates.  I do not have such skills.




Scot Kamins
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