This is a follw up thread from the previous thread labelled, old thread about Article Index - new topic, old question. The old version control service was only a temporary location anyway, as announced in advance, and because the proprietor of that service went further around the bend sooner than expected, I had to close that account. It took a while to explore options. The new location for my tab-delimited tables of Unicode metadata for The MagPi articles is Codeberg for now.
Familiarization with Git has been a learning process with both smooth running and bumps along the way. There are now two CSV tab-delimited tables of metadata for The MagPi's articles. The smaller table is a mapping of issue to month and year. The bigger one is a list of the article metadata, such as is available via the PDFs. As of today, it covers from issue 1 through issue 149 inclusive. Note that PDF is a programming language (e.g. search the WWW for how to play "Doom" inside a PDF), but in the context of imitating a file format it is for layout only. It's really quite neat to see stories and articles, which were good to begin with, improve over time and especially the layout. But the PDFs themselves are a long way from machine-readable. It's just not the nature of the format to be able to do that, especially with the high level of layout skills exhibited in recent issues. So each and thus each and every record must be keyed by hand. Thus there can be typos and other mistakes in some of the records.
Additional eyes welcome. Make a pull request or let me know here.
Some people might find the Kexi desktop utility for relational databases easy to use to construct nice GUIs for the tables. It would be really nice for someone to take the time to do so.
PS. Clayton Errington blogged about migrating from a proprietary, legacy version control service developer platform to Codeberg. The latter lines up more with RPF goals, I think.
Familiarization with Git has been a learning process with both smooth running and bumps along the way. There are now two CSV tab-delimited tables of metadata for The MagPi's articles. The smaller table is a mapping of issue to month and year. The bigger one is a list of the article metadata, such as is available via the PDFs. As of today, it covers from issue 1 through issue 149 inclusive. Note that PDF is a programming language (e.g. search the WWW for how to play "Doom" inside a PDF), but in the context of imitating a file format it is for layout only. It's really quite neat to see stories and articles, which were good to begin with, improve over time and especially the layout. But the PDFs themselves are a long way from machine-readable. It's just not the nature of the format to be able to do that, especially with the high level of layout skills exhibited in recent issues. So each and thus each and every record must be keyed by hand. Thus there can be typos and other mistakes in some of the records.
Additional eyes welcome. Make a pull request or let me know here.
Some people might find the Kexi desktop utility for relational databases easy to use to construct nice GUIs for the tables. It would be really nice for someone to take the time to do so.
PS. Clayton Errington blogged about migrating from a proprietary, legacy version control service developer platform to Codeberg. The latter lines up more with RPF goals, I think.
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