The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #34673   Message #469245
Posted By: Joe Offer
24-May-01 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: Correct the Digital Tradition
Subject: RE: Correct the Digital Tradition
I'm pretty sure I submitted a corrected text to the Digital Tradition within the last year, but the online version of the database is the one that came out in October 1999. As I recall, the text in the Digital Tradition was there before it was posted on Mudcat, but I'm not sure of that. Jim Dixon and I are doing most of the harvesting, and I think we're gradually catching up. Dick and Susan are doing the assembly and editing work, and Dick does the SongWright tunes.
I know it's frustrating that changes don't get into the DigiTrad immediately, but remember that as soon as you post a song at Mudcat, it goes into a searchable database - the Mudcat Forum. I suppose Dick & Susan could recruit more volunteers, but we four seem to be stepping on each other as it is. More volunteers might just make things messier.
Please remember that the Digital Tradition is not a commercial product. The two people primarily involved in the Digital Tradition, Dick and Susan, have to do other things to make a living.
-Joe Offer, on vacation-