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Thread #37401   Message #545643
Posted By: wysiwyg
09-Sep-01 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: Origins of: Found on Mudcat
Subject: RE: Origins of: Found on Mudcat
Oy!

Here's my plan: I decided I am going to build the spirituals index in Excel, searching by keywords, pasting in URL's by Copy Shortcut. Then I can paste the song title into that field and then I can search-replace around the URL to add the blicky coding, and line breaks, and let Excel aphabetize them. I should end up with a converted text file of working, alphabetized links.

Then I think I will do forum searches and supersearches using the titles of known spirituals from the OTHER index of spirituals I am building from various online databases-- spirituals that have appeared in known printed works or online collections.

I wonder if a method your group could use would be taking DT song titles and doing forum Filter and Supersearches on those? You would have two windows open, or three-- one with the search box and one with DT titles, then you'd copy from the DT title list and paste in the search box? That's how I will do my searches-by-title I think.

Any other tips you can share with me?

~Susan