Difference between revisions of "Help:Todo List"

Revision as of 14:45, 3 December 2021

Create and maintain a list of ephemeral films based on archival holdings, copyright records, industry magazines such as Business Screen, Educational Screen and other film related journals The Field Guide To Sponsored Films and other sources. Have embedded video of films from archive.org, YouTube, Indiana University, etc.
Allow an approved list of collaborators to add and edit films

~~create film namespace~~ - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_custom_namespaces#Why_you_would_want_a_custom_namespace
create people namespace
Have an IMDB-ish feel allowing researchers and hobbyists to see who made and acted in the films. Which films were made by what production company, etc.

~~Allow archives and collectors to list which films they have so we can start to see which films are duplicated in collections and which are rare.~~ wait
- ~~add Collection field (the same as Held By?)~~ wait
- ~~add Held By field (the same as Collection?)~~ done

oclc = ubnknown option that add cat "oclc needed"
blank fields are still a problem for some params
make lang cats for French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Hindi
producers
add date parser to DateUnpack
determine genres
- Indiana Genres are NOT that helpful
- this might work https://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/miggen.html

links page - other resources page - http://ephemeralfilm.info/index.php?title=Links
improve indiana embed ext - https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/
donate links
URL formatting
- clean URLs
fix logo on narrow screens

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 * create people namespace
 *Have an IMDB-ish feel allowing researchers and hobbyists to see who made and acted in the films. Which films were made by what production company, etc.
-;Content types needed to support this:
-:Films, currently represented by [[Template:Filmjr]]
-:People - should cast and crew be separate? Maybe not
-:Institutions (? Holdings? Libraries? Collections? see below)
-:Production Companies (Where do things like McGraw Hill and Coronet and Moody go?)
-:Series (ie Inside/Out etc)
-:Formats?
-:Equipment? (ie camera's, projectors, capture and display tech)
-:Events? (ie Found Footage Festival 2017)
-*Allow archives and collectors to list which films they have so we can start to see which films are duplicated in collections and which are rare.
+* <s>Allow archives and collectors to list which films they have so we can start to see which films are duplicated in collections and which are rare.</s> wait
-** add Collection field (the same as Held By?)
+** <s>add Collection field (the same as Held By?)</s> wait
-** add Held By field (the same as Collection?)
+** <s>add Held By field (the same as Collection?)</s> done
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