[pdb-discuss] Next steps

Sat Feb 3 13:17:05 UTC 2007

Great. As I think you have already done the parsing of our composers
file[1] I suggest our next step should be to work on code to check which
of these composer are not in musicbrainz and then to upload them (if
necessary uploading could be done by hand if not too many items).

~rufus

[1]:http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/pdb-discuss/2006-June/000058.html

Nathan Lewis wrote:
> 
> Hi Rufus et al.
> 
> I am up for some work on items 2 and 3. Mainly just give me the details 
> of the format that needs to be parsed and I write some perl code to 
> parse it into a csv file or something else similarly useable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Following our last meeting and the discussion on list I've put 
>> together a short list of things we can work on. Please take a look and 
>> indicate if you'd be interested to help out with any of these items.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> 1. Sort out a proper wordpress-based website
>>
>>   * Put in some of our news over the last year
>>   * Migrate information from the current moinmoin-based site available 
>> at http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
>>   * Copy over any relevant the copyright info we've collected under 
>> http://www.freeculture.org.uk/PublicDomainBurn/
>>
>> I've now made the wordpress install available at:
>>
>>   http://blog.publicdomainworks.net/
>>
>> and checked Michael's login -- repeatedly :)
>>
>> *Who*: Michael was kind enough to volunteer to do an hour or so on a 
>> week. Tim, I wondered whether you'd be able to help out here?
>>
>> 2. Parsing that composer list we received and uploading the results 
>> data to musicbrainz. This involves
>>
>>   * parsing the original text file
>>   * checking which composers are already listed on musicbrainz
>>   * working out how we can automate uploading to musicbrainz (or 
>> failing that uploading information by hand)
>>
>> *Who*: Rufus (me), Nathan (?), Andrew (?)
>>
>> 3. BBC catalogue data
>>
>>   * investigate parsing of data
>>   * confirm rights status (are we allowed to upload to musicbrainz)
>>
>> *Who*: volunteers needed!
>>
>>
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