Massimo Capozza wrote:
Hi Christian,
Just a quick update. We are discussing this topic at the CPDL Forums,
within a specific section that is only visible to CPDL
managers/administrators (BTW, what about creating WIMA Forums, too?).
I had a phpBB forum running some years ago but had to take it down after
a while because it cost me daily hours to get rid of spam and spammers.
I realized that managing a forum is _not_ a one-person task. I do find,
though, that a forum could be useful. So if CPDL staff people would take
care of the management, then I think we should add a WIMA forum - if we
end up with a hosting agreement.
It seems that there is consensus about considering this initiative to
support WIMA as an initiative by CPDL rather an initiative by me myself.
This would make everything more robust, as multiple people may support
WIMA operations (so, for example, if I am on holiday, Carlos can take
over to fix a problem with the website, etc.). Maybe this is an
additional element to be considered for your decision.
Yes, this will of course be of importance for my decision. I've become a
fan of robustness! Concerning WIMA operations I can say that, from my
point of view, there have been very few, daily, technical issues around
WIMA - DAIMI staff members, CC-ed to this reply, may or may not agree. I
believe that the site structure of WIMA, simple html pages with a little
additional php- and database logic, makes it stable. The only user
interaction supported is a simple ftp service for uploading contributions.
There is, however, an ongoing development project, which will change
this. The aim is to make WIMA searchable on multiple parameters like
composer, genre, style, epoch, instruments ... In order to achieve that
all WIMA scores will be registered in an elaborate database structure,
see http://www.daimi.au.dk/~reccmo/Database/WIMA2.pdf When the
development has been completed, then WIMA's page content will be
dynamically generated through php logic based on database look-up.
The project involves, as an important feature, facilities for a staff of
WIMA editors with music knowledge. The staff will share the handling of
new and updated contributions, register the scores, their authors and
contributors and store the files on the server. We intend to keep the
ftp service, or something similar, for contributor upload.
When we get that far, then a WIMA forum would be really useful.
Please forward this to your CPDL colleagues.
Greetings
--
Christian Mondrup, Archive Editor
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/
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