GCD Comic Strips, Can we start this up again?

[Steve Cottle]

Hello again,  It has been almost another year now since I asked if this project had died?   Will there every be any movement on this?   Is there anything we as a community can do to light the fire again? I personally have over 10 million newspaper strips both daily and Sundays in my collection and I know I would spend an average of 2 hours or more a day editing.  Some of us newspaper comic collectors want to start complying our knowledge of comic strips.   I really wanted this to happen but I guess it is still just another big dream.   Is there anything we as a community of newspaper comic collectors can do to possible take this over and get it moving again so we can pitch it to the guys at GCD.   I personally love GCD but it has maybe 200 of my comic strips books and that's it.   I would edit that site like i once edited Wikipedia a few years back.   If it's something else hold it up please let us know so we can get the right information, tools, designers, programmers or writers involved.

Please let us know where to start, we are all ears......    

Steven Cottle 

AKA Mr. ilovecomix 

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[Buddy Lortie]

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[Lionel English]

Our main limitation remains tech resources.  We currently have only one active developer. A couple of major priorities are improving the search functions, and developing a creator table.  The creator table will be one of the cornerstones of both the comic book and comic strip databases.  I expect work on the creator table to begin early next year.  Strips is still part of the master plan, but without a more robust development team I can't really put a timeline on it right now.

 

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[Ray Bottorff Jr]

As Lionel outlined, that lack of developers remains the key sticking point. We have the formatting of what we are going to do with the comic strip database in place, as well with the creator table and how we are going to tie all of it in. But developers are so needed.

 

Steve, if you know of any who is looking to help in this regards (and mean it too, we have had some only interested in out info and covers and not really in helping with the project), then please send them along this way. We could use them.

 

my best

-Ray Bottorff Jr

[Steven Cottle]

I'll see what I can do I have a few friends who might lend some of there time but getting them to do anything like this will be hard.  I'll keep you guys posted.

-Steve

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[Ray Bottorff Jr]

Thanks Steve, hope it works out!

my best

-Ray

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[Nuno Miranda]

I would love to see this go ahead and also would like to help in any way I can (although am not a programmer).
Cheers,
Nuno

[R Bottorff]

As would I, but we need programmers, as the existing programmers are still working on other things with the database before they get to this one.

my best

-Ray

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[Tony Rose]

It occurs to me that we don't need programmers to start recording some data, if we'll do it in a consistent way. 

Looking at the document we prepared at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BqPTLnfvD4hqsSwRjJmz_qFkiinOIwGVz71NQCNRA0Y/edit?hl=en it looks to me that we could prepare a list of strips, with start and end dates; a list of newspapers that carried comic strips; and a list of strip creators with birth and death dates.  These three lists (prepared as spreadsheets to make importation easier) would be the basis for three tables in the relational database.  We wouldn't put the data from one table into another.  The strip list would NOT include the creators or the newspapers.  We would link those later when we have an editing interface.  And, of course, we'd do the other stuff then to:  characters, genres, etc.

Let's see, there should be two strips listed when there is a daily and a Sunday, since some papers might not carry both.  For now, let's make that a field in the strip name table.

So the strip name table has four fields (columns):  strip name, start date, end date, and frequency.  There will be decisions that need to be made about translated strip names and stuff like that but we can defer that 'til later.

Newspaper name table has 4 fields:  newspaper name, place of publication, publisher, and distribution area

Creators table has 4 fields:  Surname, first name; birth date, death date.  there is plenty of other stuff that will be related to the creators but a lot of that is still to be hashed out:  how to record pseudonyms, how to handle non-English names, etc.  That's stuff that we can do with a editing interface.

Can we do a syndicate table?  What sort of other entities rather than traditional American comic strip syndicates might be appropriate here?

Anyway.  What should out plan of action be, now?  Do we make an announcement on the main list and on the homepage that we are now asking for "list makers" to get us started?  I suggest that we ask for "coordinators" to handle parts of the spreadsheets:  Strip names A-D, strip names E-H, and so on and the same for the other two and have list makers submit to the coordinators.  We need to post the lists every few days so that their isn't a lot of duplication.

I'm very flexible on the above paragraph plan.  Anybody with a better idea on how to start creating the tables without waiting on tech be sure and sound off.

tony

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