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    The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma
   Hello everybody, In an earlier post in this thread I stated that I would start to make a list containing the various names for each LEGO part. As many parts have different names in different auctions, programms and inventories it is sometimes hard (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John VanZwieten
     (...) lists (...) lot (...) Two other resources come to mind: Lutz Uhlmann's Parts Reference at: (URL) reference of technic parts at: (URL) of these cover lots of parts not done in LDraw, and the Technica pages even have images of parts not LDrawn. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma
     John Van Zwieten wrote (...) Both great pages, I still ahve to add them, which is some work with the Technica page because the names of the parts are only in the pictures. I have to check if the parts on Lutz Uhlmann's page, that are also LDrawn (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
   
        Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss
     [Followup-To set to lugnet.admin.database -- can we please corral this (important) discussion to one location? It's getting cross-posted to too many ng's] (...) I've got some LDraw-to-AucZILLA cross-reference information. Let me dig it out... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
    
         Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma
      (...) (I should have done that, discussion can be at one place) (...) That would be great (...) That is a good idea. The information I have till thus far still has included the name where it was used, so that might be possible. However, I still (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
    
         Bricktionary —Mark Koeberl
     (...) How about a "known alias" category as well? Maybe include a warning category for the the piece has been mistaken for? The effort doesn't have to be strictly technical. I've submitted a couple sets to the database, and I've been at a loss over (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
    
         Re: Bricktionary —Steve Bliss
     (...) Shows me what happens with stale followup-to's... (...) Interesting ideas. Could be useful, especially for parts with no simple description. (...) Steve (25 years ago, 1-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Todd Lehman
   (...) Oops -- I think there has been a major misunderstanding; that's not what I meant at all. When I wrote: TSL> As they say in Canada, Minnesota, and Maine, "O-ya, it's been parta da TSL> plan since day one." :-) Lots of little prototypes and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
   
        Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Todd Lehman
      This seems like it is reaching critical mass (a good thing) and perhaps at this point a dedicated newsgroup should be created for this (i.e., efforts to standardize parts nomenclature). How does lugnet.db.brictionary sound? I wouldn't quite put it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss
     (...) Sounds good. Right place in the hierarchy. (...) And it's not actually part names, but a parts identification database, right? Having standard/prefered names is good, but it's the pictures (and maybe schematics) that actually identify the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Jim Hughes
      (...) Steve, I totally agree what is needed is a complete classification/taxonomy system so you can find a part. The naming component is useful and interesting but this project should be a parts database not just a name database. If the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
     
          (canceled) —Steve Bliss
     
          Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss
      (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
     
          Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Tore Eriksson
      Hehe, I found you! 8-) /Tore (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
     
          Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss
      (...) I actually had something to say in reply to Jim's message, but I posted it incorrectly once (defaulted the Newsgroup field), so I canceled and reposted, but didn't paste in the earlier text. Oh, well. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
     
          Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Adam Howard
      What's this all about? You guys playing hide and seek in here? Adam Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3786467b.729193...net.com... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
    
         Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Todd Lehman
      (...) Right. Identification and reference and browsing and all that. Massively cross-referenced within itself and to/from set inventories, MOC's, and the marketplace. So it's really a sub-database of the larger database. The "Brictionary" part is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Picture references —Mark Koeberl
     (...) Not to overwhelm kl.net, but if a piece can be indentified in an old manual that has been scanned maybe a DB field could mention that. Doesn't have to be a direct link, but it might be a good common reference point. Mark (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss
     (...) Great. I'd love to contribute to the Lugnet Bricktionary in any way possible. Of course, I'd love to contribute to just about any effort to establish a public db for part identification and reference. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)
   
        Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma
   (...) Yes, there was a misunderstanding. I thought that you mentioned the name for this project, which you appearently did not. My goal has been changed slightly, from a name database to a searchable database with the different names that are used (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald
   In lugnet.db.brictionary, Sybrand Bonsma writes: <snip> (...) slightly, (...) are (...) How about a Lego piecesaurus or bricksaurus? Just a thought. Maybe not a good one either. -Tom McD. when replying, be sure to tune for the TV special on the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John Neal
     Tom? Tom? Oh *there* you are. Now come here this instant! I'm sorry guys. Sometimes Tom gets out of his yard (.pun) and wanders through the neighboring NGs-- he's harmless really. Come on, Tom: Now! Ever since that nasty business in .qotd a while (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
    
         Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Jeremy H. Sproat
      (...) Is that your evil twin brother? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John Neal
       (...) Well, I don't know what Tom looks like, but if he is devilishly handsome, yes;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald
      (...) Actually I look like a cross between Dan Akroyd and Peter Brady. So you could say that, yeah.. you could.. -Tom McD. when replying, Faraday's rule #23: spamcake brings trouble. (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald
     (...) business in (...) Dang. I stay away for one whole day and the brown bricks hit the fan! (...) all...please (...) Hey, IMO, why pick a strange acronym when a pun will do better? (...) Yeah, kinda like Capt. Kirk's evil twin: "Where's the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
   
        Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma
   (...) For the moment I will keep the name Lepanadat, otherwise I have to change to change the name in some files again. Also I think there isn't that much people that visit the site at the moment, so the actual name still isn't important. As soon as (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
 

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