Codex ideas???

[Yuri Elik]

Hi Paul!

Paul Mather wrote:
> > Sounds like a good job for a SQL server / WWW engine. I think that maybe
> I suggested this way back when (but whoever listens to me, anyway;).

No wonder - it's an obvious idea

> My research area is digital libraries, and there are plenty of good
> systems around here that could host this effort (for example, we have a
> multi-processor system with plenty of net bandwidth and 4 terabytes of
> direct-access storage that we use for digital library research; would that
> do?:),

Not bad!

I can try to do something with MS SQL Server at my work, but I don't
know how easy (or how difficult) it will be to port it to another server

> A while ago I wrote an awk script to process the codex into table format.
> I have the results as an MS-Access file with the contents of the codex in
> with the fields SONG, VERSION (a la the codex), SOURCE (live/studio),
> ALBUM for each codex entry.  Alas, my simple script did not preserve the
> notes attached to some versions in the codex.
>
> Would this be useful to you?

Yes, sure. Can you post it to me (at uriah at pop.convey.ru)?
Well, that will take some time, for sure (I have to do my primary job
there also ;), but maybe I'll manage to do something.


Best regards, Yuri

obCD: Korai Orom, _Korai Orom '96_