Awesome efforts by all! I have been watching the last Zog directory slowly fill with comic goodness, but don't have a way to know when it has finished. Zog had said it would take a week (give or take), and it has been that, so I will PM him to make sure.
I am still sorting files on the FTP site, mass uploading in small batches. As boox said, some of my early work to get things back onto the site has created some clean-up work. Here is my call to action:
Mods who are capable of editing files in our RW::Admin control panel, please start combing the title folders, on the look-out for the following:
If our naming convention is not consistent in the folder, then the issues don't sort properly. Here is what I have been using for naming conventions so far:
[Title] ### [F] c2c xxp
where:
- [title] is the consistent use of the title name,
- ### is the issue number (if the majority of the books listed have two-digit numbers, the make sure that all are two-digit numbers),
- [F] is if the book is a fiche copy (you don't have to use this syntax, but we do want to designate...preferably consistently...when a scan is fiche...or if it is fiche + paper. If just paper, no designation is needed),
- c2c if it is a cover-to-cover scan, and
- XXp is the page count, if such is provided.
One more convention: on some titles there is more than one series in a folder (like a vol 1, vol 2), and in order for those books to sort correctly, I have been doing this:
Science Comic (1947) 005
Science Comic (1952) 001
where the year is the series to which the issue belongs. See Fox's All Great Comics for an example if you need.
I don't want to dictate how to do this, but we need some consistency, so the site will be easier to comprehend to users. If anyone wants to propose a different standard, we should set that out now, so we don't have to double back. Please...chime in here...anyone?....anyone?
Once this is settled, though, if each able-bodied editor could pick a title and groom it for consistency, then we can more easily browse our holdings to make sure we are complete.
