[Bell Historians] Historical lists of peals / founders

[LOVE, Dickon]

I am not sure whether the committee that started to consider the idea of a
National Bell Register got as far as defining fields. The difficulty here is
that some allowance needs to be made for imprecise information, yet at the
same time make the database meaningful enough to perform searches and
calculations.

For example, for a field that has the date of a bell, either it can be set
to be a 4 digit integer, or it can be a free text field to allow the phrase
"c1325-1347".

The same applies for weights. A bell can be 14-0-0 or 14cwt approx.

For diameters, this is more straightforward as approximations are not
normally used, but sometimes it is nicer to describe a diameter as 25 1/16"
than 25.0625".

On top of that, it would be useful to publish older weights for bells that
have i.e. been retuned, or had their canons lopped off, or even just
reweighed with more modern equipment.

I have been building up my database over the past 8 years (longer if you
include paper records) and so have given such things quite a bit of thought.
When I have a moment, I would be happy to publish my table definition for
bells on this list if people are interested.

DrL

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Aspland [mailto:aaspland at y...]
Sent: 25 March 2002 08:58
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Historical lists of peals / founders


I have the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds bells as an excel spreadsheet - do we
have a recommended format for the information?
ANdrew

-----Original Message-----
From: LOVE, Dickon [mailto:DrLove at s...]
Sent: 20 March 2002 10:55
To: 'bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Historical lists of peals / founders


As I understand it, the idea of the National Bell Register was dropped?

Does anyone actually keep bell and tower information in a database?
I have almost 3,400 bells in Kent lodged in a database.

DrL

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Bowden [mailto:nickwbowden at f...]
Sent: 19 March 2002 23:34
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Historical lists of peals / founders


Excellent idea. With the collective knowledge of everyone on this list could
this be used to tie in the National Bell Register?
Nick


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