Re: [ARSCLIST] discographies

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:53 AM 10/18/2005, Steve Smolian wrote:
> But discographies on-line can be corrected.  A Wikopedia type 
> structure might work- corrections by peer review, signed, should be 
> a good starting place.

Yes, this has been suggested for many years (in 1998 I began a small 
mailing list on the subject titled "jazz computer discography project").

It's easier said than done. The fact is that the database programming 
for such a thing is much more involved than for a single-user offline 
database. But the data exchange function in the BRIAN application is 
a major step in the right direction. Users can and do submit 
corrections and additions in XML format to the appropriate 
discographers. From what I know of the Wikipedia project, it's just 
plain text (with some hyperlinks) not any kind of database (and it 
shouldn't be - it's encyclopedia-type text).

Mike



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