What type of database tasks should we do with it? I have done some DB
programming, but I don't know any of the real advanced stuff.
Lourie
>________________________________
> From: maarten deneckere <[email protected]>
>To: Isla Haddow-Flood <[email protected]>; [email protected];
>Lourie Pieterse <[email protected]>; Charlene Foster
><[email protected]>; Blessing Chataira <[email protected]>
>Cc: wikimediaza <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:35 AM
>Subject: Fwd: Struggling with the monuments database
>
>
>Hey all,
>
>in attach a sample file of the monuments database. I asked this to allow us to
>see what kind of information we can use, and what type of processing we have
>to do.
>
>I'm no real database expert, who could help us with extracting all the
>necessary information out of this file?
>
>Regards,
>Maarten
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Nicholas Wiltshire <[email protected]>
>Date: 2012/6/25
>Subject: Re: Struggling with the monuments database
>To: maarten deneckere <[email protected]>
>
>
>Hi Maarten - thanks for your email. Attached is the sample extract of the
>database. I just migrated the sites to our server on Friday and am busy
>linking up the declaration history to the sites. You can ignore the Primary
>key column - between you and I we'll simply assign a new autoincrement ID
>field numbered 1-3580 so that it's easy later on to match our dbase to the
>wiki photos.
>I'll send you the MOU as soon as Herma is done checking it - but she mentioned
>that I should not expect it this week - but at least you can carry on with the
>sample as the structure is half the job..
>All the best,
>Nic
>
>>>> maarten deneckere <[email protected]> 22/06/2012 18:39 >>>
>
>Hey Nicholas,
>
>I hope everything goes well. I'm back on holiday and focussing again on the
>competition :-)
>
>From the earlier competition in Europe I know we will run into some
>problems on the monument database. We have to process it and turn it into a
>data structure that we can use on Wikipedia, on Commons and on our own
>website. This takes quite a lot of work.
>
>Can you send us a "sample" of the monument database? Let's say of about 200
>monuments in a certain region. We will use this sample data to learn what
>kind of processing we have to do on the whole data set. This will speed up
>the process if we would get the full database.
>
>Off course, this is a sample file: we will only use it to test the
>processing and will remove all the information afterwards.
>
>Groete,
>Maarten Deneckere
>
>
>
>
>
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