[pdb-discuss] Call for Volunteers!

[Tim Cowlishaw]

Hi All,

After the great success of launching the database with all the data we have
mined from the British Library cataloguge, it's time we pushed ahead with
the project and began to use the data we have gathered in order to identify
public domain recordings, and provide feedback to Rufus about how the
database should best be structured.

Initially, we need to start adding birth and death dates for all the artists
listed on the wiki. This should be a relatively quick and simple job, there
is a howto available here:

http://www.publicdomainworks.net/howto

The list of artists is here:

http://www.publicdomainworks.net/artist

If everyone on this list could spare five minutes to tidy up the data on a
couple of artists and to add any missing information (especially birth and
death dates) before feeding any comments on or suggested improvements to
the workings of the database and the interface back to the list, then we
would be able to make significant headway with this project in very little
time.

Please bear in mind that for development work to continue on the database,
Rufus and Nathan need feedback from us on the data that is already collated,
so the sooner we have completed this task the sooner the project can
progress to bigger and better things!

If you are willing to spend a couple of minutes of your time on this, please
add your name to the http://www.publicdomainworks.net/Volunteers page, or
reply to this email, and I will share the list of artists out among everyone
who volunteers. Once again, please try and find a few minutes to help with
this, it will be a tiny amount of work in exchange for a huge amount of
progress!

many thanks,

Tim
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