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Currently, there are three active major part databases out there: Partsref, Peeron Inventories, and the BrickLink Catalog. All have their advantages: Partsref has keywords, cross-referencing to other databases, and usually excellent pictures[1]. (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy
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I like the idea of better indexing, and would be happy to incorporate any new method into peeron - now someone just has to write it :) I know that indexing by a non-unique field (which is the part number) is a bad thing - it's just the easiest and (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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I'm not going to quote it because I agree with it in total. I'd like to add some related thoughts that have been nagging at me ever since I first encountered Brick{Bay,Link} and LDraw... The thing that bugs me most is the names given to the parts. (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(URL) would what you're saying allow more obvious names like "worm gear" - as I think of it, because that's what it logically interacts with and looks like to me, at least - help me to find that name for a part often used in gear-reduction (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) that part (and it's name) come from partsref - we try to use partsref names whenever we can, unless it's for a part that isn't available as a dat yet. But even for X numbers (our custom parts), we will eventually rename them to whatever the (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Hey, don't go blaming poor Partsref for something that's an LDraw problem. ;) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) I'd be happy to be a part of the development of such a system, but I don't have the time to do it on my own or be in charge of a group effort. So if someone volunteers to head up such a project, be sure to post it here. (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Thoughts on Parts Taxonomy
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:Gw0027.A1p@lugnet.com... (...) You mean ldraw, perhaps, as someone else pointed out? (...) so (...) That's basically what I was after - "common sense" names (keywords) for commonly sought-after (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) doh, you're right. Everyone, please don't complain to Steve about the names in Partsref, just complain to Steve about the names in LDraw :P <G,D&R> (22 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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