Re: 350+ scans of original upholstery-carpet-top cards

Posted by BH On 2011/2/27 16:54:18

Stephen -

I'm not intentionaly criticizing you or patgreen in any way, but I know from past experience that projects like this can be hard to co-ordinate and the on-again/off-again nature can lead to some issues. (Heck, I was just in here, the other day, editing 48-50 Serivce Index entries, again.)

I know that the model application can be confusing to work with as Packard handled it for the 48-54 edition. I've already found duplicate etnries for same card with different model applications and will be on the lookout for more and merge the info as needed.

The problem with a handful truncated titles was not as bad as I feared. I suspect that was due to insufficient length of the image Title field, which could not have been easily anticipated. It appears that all images in the Photo Gallery get a number applied as their filenam when they are uploaded, and your filenames were then (purposely) put in the respective Title fields. Now, that I've found them all, the fix will be fairy easy.

Typos and spelling also appear to be relatively few.

Know that the missing term "Set" was only a factor with my Search criteria - wouldn't affect the database. In some cases, the word "Code" or simply the letter "C" was used, instead - though that may have simply happened in the early stages of work; some things only becoome more clear the longer you work with them. Yet, legibility of these 50+ year old tags is a problem, too. In a some cases, the tags had NO trim set info, and a few samples had no tag (left) at all.

Yet, one thing that has me confused is the syntax of these titles. My understanding is the the underscore character was intended to parse data into related fields and the hyphen (or dash) was intended to separate elements within a common field - in lieu of spaces and troublesome things like commas, quotes, and other special characters. Problem is that the usage of those characters does not appear to be correct ot very consistent. I can fix it more quickly witht he spreadsheet, but need to know the exact intent - as only want to have to do this once.

When finished editing, I am sure that BigKev's kung-fu programming skills will be able to merge the results en masse in a mater of minutes.

I'm sure all will appreciate having uniform and color-corrected images to go along with all the text data.