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Recent changes

Every time these pages are updated, changes typically are, apart from some hundreds of new entries and a bunch of misc corrections, the result of breaking up the severely swelled pages down to manageable file sizes (pref. bellow 32 kB). This is made, naturally, by creating more, smaller pages, which in turn means editors will have to update many links. I try to make this process as painless as possible, and obsolete pages were replaced by redirectioning lists.

This table summarizes the changes (I removed the ".html" bit to keep it leaner):

Old news…

As you know the page bib.html was getting too big and I had it to be splitted for a long time. All entries will be listed on one of 26 alphabetically ordered BIB pages, targeted by its code. For example, the entry [abc99a] will be reached at bib-a.html#abc99a, the entry [xyz66b] will be reached at bib-x.html#xyz66b, etc.

This is done so to enable quick and easy automaticly replacing of relinks to the interested editors: just replace all old references "bib.html#a"s with "bib-a.html#a", "bib.html#b" with "bib-b.html#b", a.s.o. untill "bib.html#z" with "bib-z.html#z". Likewise, when a letter page is split, f.i. "bib-c.html" become "bib-ca.html" and "bib-cr.html", you may update all links to the old page by replacing "bib-c.html#ca"s to "bib-c.html#cq"s with respectively "bib-ca.html#ca"s to "bib-ca.html#cq"s, and "bib-c.html#cr"s to "bib-c.html#cz"s with respectively "bib-cr.html#cr"s to "bib-cr.html#cz"s.

António Martins, 20 Aug 1999

Planned additions

Publisher’s name and place (both of the entry and and of the entry’s source) are to be futurely split in two fields.
António Martins, 07 Sep 1999

I also plan for a near future cross index table pages, listing the BIB items in compact link lists sorted by author, date [meanwhile partially done], publisher, country and subject. This last one will demand active help from all interested FOTWers to add the relevant keywords.
António Martins, 20 Aug 1999

I’ve been gathering this kind of material [biographies of the most renowned vexillologists] from the BIB splits (most famous vexillologists were/are vexillological writers), and some of it is added to the pages (see f.i. under [mad96], [smi], [cra], [neu39] et c.). But my goal is to have it apart, on separate author pages. The author names in each of the current BIB entries will link to an author page section, which in turn links to all registered sources authored by him/her and gives biographical data. Of course, some authors will have much more data than most…
António Martins, 24 May 2003

There are still some new projects to persue (relational db cross indexes for authors, author groups, publishers, and series, etc.).
António Martins, 15 Dec 2001

“Captain’s log”

Thanks to many of these small individual contributions (and also to many massive ones), our Bibliography has grown 200-fold since 1998 and keeps growing!
António Martins, 17 Dec 2005

When I started editing BIB, in Jan. 1998, we had 40 entries…
António Martins, 28 Jan 2000

The Oct.1998 version is still on line here and localy mirrowed here — 53 entries!
António Martins, 27 May 2002

I have currently in the Excel sheet that makes all this tick 145 entries, but I expect this to grow five or six fold in the next months — with your help, naturally!
António Martins, 20 Aug 1999

I’ve just updated the BIB database with recent new info, sent by many FOTWers either to the list or directely to me. We have now 535 entries (plus 22 obsolete entry codes).
António Martins, 28 Jan 2000

Right now we have 966 entries (42 obsolete), but I’m preparing some 200 more entries from Jan Oskar’s database — even if all we have is covered by him, this means about a thousand entries!!
António Martins, 22 Jun 2001

Right now we have 3131 entries on our database, of which 104 are obsolete, thus 3027 bibliographic entries as of Dec. 2001.
António Martins, 15 Dez 2001

With this new update we have now 11 new pages and 4092 entries (plus 137 obsolete codes).
António Martins, 27 May 2002

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