6 Mar
2007
6 Mar
'07
1:21 p.m.
Personally I find I sometimes get lost in the archive
(via the web interface)
though as a filename often doesn't obviously correspond to a document title.
The file naming has evolved over the 7+ years. In general, anything new is being
added with <manual part number> <title> <date>
This started on a system with 32 character file names, so <title> was ruthlessly
truncated, and as you noticed, <title> wasn't always the document title.
The worst problem with the current arrangement is file renaming and rearrangement
of the heirarchy. I'm not sure if the mirrors reflect these rearrangements.
In general though, it seems to serve it's purpose, so I'm not inclined to spend
a lot of time adding database functionality to it.
I've been working on a MUCH harder problem on how to organize the CHM digital
holdings,
of which the bitsavers archive is a fairly tiny part.
6 Mar
6 Mar
1:44 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
It's not so much of an inconvenience on a good connection - but it probably
doesn't help with bandwidth at the server if people are having to download
files just to see what they are :(
Personally I
find I sometimes get lost in the archive (via the web
interface)
though as a filename often doesn't obviously
correspond to a document
title.
The file naming has evolved over the 7+ years. In general, anything new
is being
added with <manual part number> <title> <date>
This started on a system with 32 character file names, so <title> was
ruthlessly
truncated, and as you noticed, <title> wasn't always the document title.
The worst problem with the current arrangement is file
renaming and
rearrangement of the heirarchy.
I suppose that's one area where a database could potentially help, as the
database could be the definitive source as far as mirrors are concerned when
it comes to mirroring content.
In general though, it seems to serve it's purpose,
so I'm not inclined
to spend a lot of time adding database functionality to it.
Sure, I saw it more as one of those projects (like additions to the classiccmp
website) that people with the time and skills could maybe take on, rather than
it being something that you'd have to do yourself. I bet we've got a few
dba's, PHP gurus etc. etc. lurking on the list...
I've been working on a MUCH harder problem on how
to organize the CHM
digital holdings, of which the bitsavers archive is a fairly tiny part.
heh heh, not an easy task at all - presumably made all the more difficult if
you've already got a significant amount of data in digital form which needs to
be migrated to a new system. One of those situations where it'd be nice to
just know what the "right" solution was up-front I suppose and then just stick
with it...
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