Better indexing on bitsavers

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 4:42 PM


> > 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.


How about this:

File name[24 characters]  Index key [24 character part number]  Printed page 
number [8 characters]  Optional PDF page number if different [8 characters]


You may want to exclude the first field since it should match the file name 
of index/PDF file.

The file should have a header line (I like a header line, a line of dashes, 
and an extra blank line).

I picked multiples of 8 for tabbing and it fits within 80 col.


Randy
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