Re: VMs: dB request: was: transcriptions and shorthand notes

["matt welnicki" <welnicki@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

GC,

Also not having the technical skills of someone like
Nick to do what you suggest, but interested in your
ideas, I would be willing to contribute some time to
the laborious "clipping" or other task (so long as it
is simple enough fro me to understand :)).
Matt

> I certainly wouldn't be able to complete such a
> database of images in short
> order, and the only one I know that has the skills to
> make something like
> this manageable on the web is Nick (not dissing anyone
> else, it's just that
> individual skills are not something usually discussed
> on the list, so in my
> long absence I'm unaware if any new members are as
> willing or capable).
> Size of the database would have to be estimated to
> determine whether I can
> host it on my present site, or purchase a devoted site
> for the purpose.
> Bandwidth per search needs to be estimated to
determine
> the requirements of
> such a site, which I think we'll use quite heavily.
> 
> Most importantly, a few devotees would be necessary to
> tediously clip and
> index the images of each line accordingly.  A few
pages
> per person would
> suffice, maybe?  The transcription dB's are easy to
set
> up, and the graphic
> glyph interface is not that difficult.    Rather than
> having to know the
> transcription alphabet of EVA or VGBT, all one would
> have to do is click on
> a picture of "8" + "a" + "m", and the three glyph
> assignments are copied to
> a box that calls up all lines containing "8am" in my
> transcription, or
> "daiin" in EVA transcription, depending on the user's
> initial transcription
> selection.  Currier, D'Imperio, Frogguy, and other
> transcriptions should be
> added as linked database choices, so visual continuity
> between all
> historical transcription methods is maintained.  Such
a
> presentation would
> end my sustainedv opposition to EVA, and IMHO would go
> a long way in
> increasing the learning curve.
> 
> Yes Nick, I know we discussed this 1 1/2 years ago,
but
> those discussions
> were nothing more than teenage chat, enduring the long
> progress into
> adulthood.  The painful wait that all adolescents
> endure is over, the color
> images marking the lively progression that all good
> ideas follow.  If there
> was ever a right time for this idea to blossom, that
is
> now.
> 
> GC
> 
>
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