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Subject:	Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 8 Jul 1999 14:00:08 GMT
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> > 2. Get many names for pieces that are already in use. To start, the parts • lists > of LDraw, Auczilla and the set inventory of Tim Vattima will give already a • lot > of > names. Two other resources come to mind: Lutz Uhlmann's Parts Reference at: http://titan.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~uhlmann/partlst.html Technica reference of technic parts at: http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/t_contents.html Both of these cover lots of parts not done in LDraw, and the Technica pages even have images of parts not LDrawn. > 3. Compare the names of the different databases. A start here might be to • find > the counterparts of LDraw parts in other programms/auctions. Because LDraw > uses part numbers, the list of pieces can be split up among various people > easily. > > 4. Make an overview list of the used names. A proposed format is: > LDraw number; LDraw name; Auczilla name; TV inventory name; other name(s) > This owuld already be a good start for the Bricktionary. > > 5. Adding images or links to images to the overview list and make it a real > searchable database. Ideal would be both an LDrawn image and a scanned or POV-Ray image. -John Van

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		Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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)

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		The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?)
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)

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