[pdb-discuss] Next steps

[Nathan Lewis]

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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