As of last weekend there is a alpha version of the registry up at:
If all went well Tom Chance demoed this at the iCommons summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The database system and its interface is in alpha stage and the site is a prototype designed for testing purposes. In particular:
- This site only contains recordings from the UK for 1900
- The site is based on a wiki. A wiki does not provide a structured enough storage format for the underlying metadata and we need to move to a proper database backend
We need your help both in experimenting with the data and interface and with developing this prototype into a full sytem. To find out how to get involved see participate. If you have comments please post them either here on the registry.
There’s a project on knowledgeforge with all the code:
There’s also a mailing list (discussion, development etc) is:
