Better indexing on bitsavers

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Thu May 19 16:42:48 CDT 2005


 > One extra caveat would be when listing page numbers both the printed
 > page numbers and the PDF's declared page numbers should be included.

When I started building bitsavers, I didn't have an easy way to put the
page numbers on each page in the format they were in the original. Once
Eric had tumble working, I started bookmarking every page with the 
'real' page number with the intent of fixing the PDF page to match.

 > Al can decide if it should be text only, html, excel, etc.

ASCII space separated fields

Actually, I wasn't totally out of computing since January...
I built a 400+GB music archive at the radio station that I
do a weekly show at, and built the master indexes as text
files. They are post-processed into SQL form, but the original
data is all easily readable and editable.

It is really, really easy to manipluate the data later if you
do this.


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