>
Johnny Adams wrote:
> > Yes. VMP has stopped publishing briefly while we try and sort out
> > our policy on several issues of coding, copyright, etc. As you say,
> > it's important to get it right in the early stages and also to set
> > things up so that updates are not laborious. Basic mistakes on my
> > part have compromised the Salford site for a while and now exams,
> > conferences and other aspects of academia are delaying the
> > development of the new site.
>
> Richard Robinson
> There's another thing I wish I'd done at the start, but haven't got round
> to yet - the X: line is fine across 1 file, but not when you have several
> files; I'd like a unique identifier for each tune I type. I remember
> Henrik raising this, years ago, and no general agreement being reached.
> It would help with cacheing (of tunes, images, midi, whatever), could be
> used as a key for a database system, etc etc, and would be A Good Thing.
>
> --
That's one thing that VMP did get right, although the
identifier is in the title and not the X: field. Each
collection has a code - HSJ Jackson is HSJ, and the tune
number follows. This means that say Soldier's Joy from one
collection is discrete from Soldier's Joy in another, even
if they are written exactly the same. That code will be
used in our database, firstly as an identifier and secondly
as a cross reference somewhere in the file.
Johnny Adams -
The Village Music Project
@ The Institute of Social Research
University of Salford, Manchester, UK
http://www.salford.ac.uk/media/research/vmpaims.htm
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