[pdb-discuss] Metadata Party: Call for Volunteers 2

Thu Oct 5 11:53:04 UTC 2006

Hey

I'll certainly put in some time before the start of next week... apologies
for going quiet on this one.

Easy

On 10/5/06, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Back in August Tim was kind enough to head up an effort to run a
> 'metadata party' to add information to:
>
>    http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
>
> This had a dual purpose:
>
>    a) actually add data to the site
>    b) gather feedback on what is good/bad about the site
>    c) how hard is going to be to find information
>
> At the last fc-uk irc meeting we agreed we should try and do this again
> with more volunteers (not just Michael and Tim!).
>
> I count 116 items on the the index of artists but some of these already
> have dates (usually performers where date is combined into the name: a
> bug which needs requires work on the BL html parser to fix).
>
> Anyway if we each took ten each this would only need around eleven of us
> (i suggest that people put their initials next to the artist name on the
> artist index page in order to indicate they are dealing with that person).
>
> **So please, please spare 10 minutes of your time to enter some death
> dates! And, if you are going to volunteer, please write back to the list
> so we all know who is participating**
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        [pdb-discuss] Call for Volunteers!
> Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:00:53 +0100
> From:   Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk>
> To:     pdb-discuss at lists.okfn.org
>
>
>
> 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
> <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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