Hi there! I would like to help with this, it's the least I can do ;)
On Jun 22, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Perfectly agree. Additionally, if there're other tags > available you could also include them. Usual tags that might > be available are: Throwing away info hurts, usually there is a point when you'll need it. >>> Actually, right now I just add some >>> >>> [Source "TWIC 654"] >>> >>> lines to the header, and similar ones if they're from other >>> sources. >>> >> The one I use looks like this: [Source "twic706.pgn"]. However, I can >> easily change my tag to suit. > > I'd suggest to use "institution tags" and issues. I regard > TWIC like a normal journal. The Journal is called TWIC, and > the issue in your example ist 706. Therfore I used > > [Source "TWIC 706"] > > as I'd also use for a book e.g. > > [Source "Kasparov: My Great Predecessors, III p. 287"] > > If you work in e.g. files from the Pitsburg archive one > could think about > > [Source "Pitsburg Chess Archive"] The use of institutions or physical (as in books, magazines, etc.) tag names looks better, file names can change a lot with use and don't always represent the original source of the content. >>> I for my person am currently just to busy to add another >>> project to my desk, sorry for that. But if you want to >>> please just feel free to start right away. From my >>> experience stuff gets going easier if someone just starts >>> doing something. I could provide some scripts of course >>> to automatically fetch TWIC or also my pgnaddtag that >>> adds the above mentioned header line to all games in a >>> pgn file. >> OK. I can start with the games in the Pitt Archive. I have >> downloaded all of the games in the "Events" folder there. > > I'd be carefull to be to ambitious. Maybe you should start > with some thoughts about how to build up the DB at all. E.g. > I do not know whether their tags are normalised well. > Besides player names also the "event" and "site" tags are > often a mess and one of the main inconveniences of my own > reference base. Mostly though pgns from a single site are in > one common style. Therefore if you e.g. decide to use TWIC > for the continous upgrade of the DB (probably a wise > decision) one could base the tagging conventions on TWIC, > then start adding tournaments and tag them accordingly. How good is the scid db format to work with multiple changes by multiple people? would it be better to use pgn in the middle editing? after we finish with the file, we could export it to scid format and/ or merge it to the main db. Is there any tracking system easy to use? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
