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Re: Storage and Display of OMR Files
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:03:34 GMT
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Tim Courtney <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message
news:4.2.0.58.19990715120440.00a221f0@pop.osiriscomm.com...
At 11:44 AM 7/15/99 , John VanZwieten wrote:
What is the advantage of grouping OMR sets into pages based on • theme/subtheme?
I would think an organization system similar to Kevin Loch's would be fine.
We already have the Pause DB to find what sets are in a theme, so the OMR
should focus on providing easy, quick access to sets by number.  Ideally,
Pause would include links to OMR files just like it does for instruction
scans.

It's not that organizing by theme, subtheme is bad, but I just can't see
people really wanting to find/view/download set .dats based on theme rather
than number.

But on the other hand, someone may come to the OMR looking for a set by
name, or might want all of a theme or subtheme.  Since the OMR will not be
run off a database that serves up live content, it won't be easy to offer
both.  So would it be better to allow the search to give results for
subthemes say if 'mtron' was searched for?  Could that lead to urls that go
through the search but provide categories?


How about just a link to the Pause reference.  They could find out the set
numbers of all the M:TRON sets, and then return to snag the .dats by number.
That's how I would do it, anyway.

-John Van



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(...) But on the other hand, someone may come to the OMR looking for a set by name, or might want all of a theme or subtheme. Since the OMR will not be run off a database that serves up live content, it won't be easy to offer both. So would it be (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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