[Bell Historians] The ongoing evolution of Dove online

[John Arthur]

I have waited a little while before commenting with some realisation that
lists and databases are specifically targeted!

At the present time we have:

Diocesan Lists prepared by George Dawseon in excel which are fully
searchable records of bell details
The entries on the CBC Church Buildings Record (for some Diocese) derived
from the above and checked through before posting which are only
searchable per church
We have Dove which contains frame details and some other items but only
deals with rings of 3 and above
Where bells are a War Memorial they are sometimes recorded in the National
War Memorial Register. (Hideously difficult to search for bells!)

The question is how are these going to be combined. who is going to compile
it and the time spent on updating is considerable.(There could be a cost
element here as we know the amount of time that John has put into this.)

There is a good register for church organs which is detailed and searchable.

The Clock register organised by the AHS has a detailed format and the
detail being asked is commendable but how much time could be spent filling
in the detail asked for. Whilst most clocks are registered many just have a
maker and date with little other detail. There is much work still to do on
this database although the outline detail has been uploaded to the CBC
Records.

So it depends on how it is decided to much detail we wish to record?

John
John Arthur
Bells & Clocks Adviser to York DAC





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On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 5:26 PM Steve Powell <steve.powell at channel-two.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 08:43:36 +0100, Chris Pickford via Bell-historians
> <bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Further to my email yesterday about the AHS turret clock database, I
> > contacted Andy Burdon (the database manager) who >says that anyone can
> > request access for research purposes.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If you want to access the database, then email admin at ahstcg.org to
> > request a login stating if you require access for research >(i.e.
> > viewing) or to add details (ability to add or edit).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Importantly, Andy added “I would really like to get bells people more
> > interested in entering info about turret clocks into the database
> rather
> > >than duplicate information across both databases”. I would certainly
> > echo that
> >
> >
> >
>
> Personally speaking, I am equally interested in Bells, Turret Clocks, and
> come to that Pipe Organs.
>
> I'll let you all work out what that says about me because I'm not even
> sure myself.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Steve Powell.
> Stourbridge UK.
>
>
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