[pdb-discuss] Call for Volunteers!

Wed Aug 9 15:13:27 UTC 2006

Hullo

Good work you guys, nice to see this vital and ambitious project evolving.

I've just added birth / death dates plus notes for a couple of artists and
will do some again when i next have some spare time.

Not much feedback to give as yet on database / interface, except for my
preference to see Artists alphabetised.

Nice

Mikey

On 8/8/06, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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/Volunteerspage, 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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