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

[Michael Watson]

Scot,

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-Michael

on 1/7/2009 7:47 PM Scot Kamins said the following:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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