The three sites really serve different purposes, but ALL THREE are only as good as what is submitted and maintained. Thus all three suffer from "bad data in, bad data out"
Personally, I'd love to see the three locations (at least, there may be more) get up to modern times and work together to enable data sharing and distributed maintenance. However, only archive.org is a non-profit with a budget for new projects. Being able to let deadlists users immediately see what audio is available on archive.org for the show(s) they are browsing on deadlists is a significant step in that direction. Deadlists could use some revamping in the database department. For example, the set lists displayed are just very long text fields. Ideally, each song and its details should be its own record. However, converting the text to individual records in an automated fashion is a complex task. It's a project that's been on the back-burner for a long time but requires some volunteer work to get completed. This could enable other capabilities such as allowing any site visitors to make changes directly that are put into a pending state, allowing the caretaker the opportunity to review and approve, but not forcing the caretaker to be the gatekeeper. For example an email is sent to the caretaker and the list when a change is made and if there are no objections after a set period of time, the change is automatically made. Current state is that, realistically, unless the caretaker can physically verify a user submitted correction, the update is being made primarily based on good faith anyway. Im NOT high, but that's my rant anyway... Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Timothy Welch > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:56 PM > To: deadlists@nemesis.CS.Berkeley.EDU > Subject: internet archive > > Deadlists.com is the best source for info. In contrast, view > the txt.info regarding shn's from etree/internet archive. > Some of the decriptions regarding the tapes, dates, etc, are > often lacking info that can be easily found or have notes > that show plain ignorance of the shows and people involved. > Examples: Touloose ta Truck is "Phil's bar band", the > 11/28/73 mystery, the last disc is an aud. version of the > first three sbd. discs. > I'm always finding errors. Forgive this rant, I'm high :) > god bless everyone! BTW, who is the crappy harmonica player > with the dead at Monterey? > > >
