Sources database
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What's a "source"? A source is pretty much any type of content (informational material) -- textual, audio, video -- that can be cited. (Typically then this would include works created by other people, but I suppose you could just as well include your own creations in this database.)
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Related ideas Citations database? (wikipedia:Template:Cite_web)
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[edit] Episodal/serial sources
These are sources which contain two or more distinct "episodes". You could call them a "series".
They may have already released as many episodes as they will ever released (in which case I'll call it "closed") or they may still be producing them ("continual sources").
For those of us who like to be complete, one ought to have a sort of checklist to make sure you didn't miss any episodes from your favorite shows.
Also, each time you consume (listen to/watch) an episode, it should ask you to rate it, comment on it, etc. (optionally tag/categorize it). In other words, collect any details from it that you want to be systematically collecting. For example, you may have a requirement for yourself, that you take notes on each episode; this system could help enforce that (self-imposed) requirement.
Perhaps it should include some kind of [auditing system (category)] that lets you go back at a later time to see if you've missed collecting {the information you want to collect} for any episodes. If so, you will get to go back and revisit that episode, and this time around (for example), take notes.
[edit] Continual sources
A subtype of "episodal/serial sources".
Most podcasts would fall under this category. Exceptions would be podcasts that are no longer updated / no longer publish any new material: those I would consider "closed"/defunct/dead.
Calculate the rate at which each of them is being published/produced. Take the same of those rates: That's the total amount of content that is being made available each hour/day/week/month. Would it even be humanly possible to consume all of that content if that's all you did, 24/7? What if you only did it for a more reasonable amount per day, like 8 hours? In other words, get a perspective on just how much content you are actually interested in. This will help you make more informed/sane decisions about how you want to deal with this information overload / what you actually want to do with the content.
(Also calculate how much storage space it would take (unit of capacity / unit of time) to store all of it...)
If it's a large enough amount of content...
- You may not want to even try to consume every episode from every series. You may be forced to be quite selective and only consume those episodes which look like they have the highest chance of being interesting / relevant (whatever your criteria are).
- You may decide to give up any dreams you ever had about going back to the beginning of the series(before you started consuming this stream) and getting caught up on all the back episodes. You might also choose to give up plans to visit each good show twice (the first time to get an overview and decide if it's even any good, the second time to take notes) and instead decide to just take any notes that you are ever going to take the first time through.
[edit] Movies based on books, etc.
I may want to keep track of the relationship between all sorts of works that are all based on the same work...
For example, we might have:
- play based_on-> true_story
- book based_on-> true_story
- movie based_on-> [book, and true_story]
... where each of those objects would be reified specific entities (the play and the book aren't both just based on "a true story", but on the exact some true story; that's what causes them to be related). But in this particular case, let's say that it is neither true that the play was based on the book nor that the book was based on the play. Perhaps this true story is a widely written-about historical event; so it's not like you could pin it down to being based on a single book; the producers of each work would have cited/researched from a number of books/sources...
This relationship would perhaps best be visualized by a digraph.
[edit] How I first heard about it
For example, did a friend tell me about? Did I hear the author of this book interviewed on a talk show radio program? What caused me to be interested in this book?
If the first I heard of it was from some Internet source, then I can just cite that source directly and include the relevant quote that caught my interest.
[edit] To do
- Import from F:\Documents\Personal DB\Personal DB.mdb.
