[pd-discuss] Cairns data parser

Fri Jul 3 22:28:54 UTC 2009

Rufus,

There is a date field in the data and we do parse it, although from the 
sample data I believe only about 1 in 15 items provided a year, 
unfortunately.

David

Rufus Pollock wrote:
> 2009/7/2 David Read <internet at davidread.org>:
>   
>> This link works better:
>> http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/hg/file/tip/pdw/tests/getdata/test_cairns.py
>> <https://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/hg/file/tip/pdw/tests/getdata/test_cairns.py>
>>     
>
> I've just finished loading around 30k of these BBC Cairns catalogue
> records on my local machine. One thing I notice is that there seems
> never to be any date information available. Does this mean there is no
> date info in the original records or that we are just not able to
> parse it out at present?
>
> Rufus
>
>   