Steve Roud has asked me to post the following:

First of all a point of information. The Roud Indexes are not part of the 'Full English' project, nor is 'Full English' the name of the new VWML site. The Full English is the project to digitise, catalogue and present selected manuscript collections; the Roud Indexes are a completely separate entity (compiled by me, not the EFDSS) but hosted by the EFDSS to make them freely available.


My indexes on the new VWML site have a new search engine and interface (designed by Richard Butterworth), but the underlying database structure is the same as on the old site, but incorporating about 14,000 new entries on the Folk Song Index and 35,000 more on the Broadside Index.



We are currently testing and de-bugging the new site, so it was very useful to hear about the problem of the missing Cecilia Costello entry. It's still there in my underlying database, so it appears to have been missed out in the uploading process. I don't know why, and as yet don't know if this is an isolated case or one of many - but we will look into it, and it will be back in there soon!



Anyone who uses my Indexes regularly or for detailed research might wish to join the Yahoo discussion list for users (http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=roudindexes) because that is where I announce major changes, updates issued, and so on. There is also the facility to download each database, as a comma-delimited file, if you wish to use them in your own package on your own computer.


Steve Roud