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SDS Record Line Number Legacy Link and Citation Format Using Line Nu
Links Planning References Citation System Macro 985 in 000006
Convert Link Format on Old SDS Records
Links Line Number Convert Legacy Format in Existing Records to Apply
SDS Records Legacy Data Base Convert Link Format on Old SDS Records

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0907 -    ..
0908 - Summary/Objective
0909 -
090901 - Follow up ref SDS 4 0000, ref SDS 3 0000.
090902 -
090903 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Gary saying...
090904 -
090905 -    1.  There are many places in older records where the old form of
090906 -        SDS line references are used.
090908 -         ..
090909 -    2.  As these are not stable under editing of the destination
090910 -        record, I think we should consider researching and fixing them.
090912 -         ..
090913 -    3.  Creating a Perl script to recognize and creating an SDS record
090914 -        with a list of references should be doable.
090916 -         ..
090917 -    4.  This would allow going directly to the references. It would
090918 -        still require determining where in the destination record the
090919 -        reference should go, but the link to the record at least would
090920 -        be available.
090922 -  ..
090923 - On 971119 planning to convert links from legacy line number format to
090924 - anchors showed that investing time is required to exercise judgement
090925 - about where an anchor should be placed to support a line number link.
090926 - ref SDS 2 R25L
090928 -  ..
090929 - Gary continues...
090930 -
090931 -    5.  It might not be too much of a problem within SDS, but all such
090932 -        references are broken in HTML, even if the record is on the
090933 -        web.
090935 -  ..
090936 - On 971119 some key records were identified for conversion to support
090937 - communication and education about Com Metrics. ref SDS 2 P270
090939 -  ..
090940 - Gary continues...
090941 -
090942 -    6.  Where do you think this ranks in importance. Should I add such
090943 -        a script to my list to develop?
090945 -  ..
090946 - On 980325 report progress on this task that provides a baseline of
090947 - records on the Internet for demostrating theory and practice of using
090948 - the Internet to deliver anytime, anywhere intelligence. ref SDS 3 0001
090949 - Looks like the original task took several weeks to a month or more.
090950 - ref SDS 3 549N
090952 -  ..
090953 - Gary explains today there are still quite a few links on the Internet
090954 - that have not been updated.
090956 -  ..
090957 - My sense is this is a low priority item, because the value of links
090958 - comes from use.  When we use a record, if there are legacy line number
090959 - links, they are converted as needed.  This distributes the time for
090960 - conversion across a long time span, making it incidental to large
090961 - goals at any given time.  It can be very frustrating sometimes to come
090962 - across a record that fits current needs for linking and find it is
090963 - riddled with legacy line number links, because it can take 20 minutes
090964 - to an hour to make the conversion.  A fairly recent example is the
090965 - record Gary cited on Landauer's work.  There are a series of these
090966 - records, beginning on 960321. ref SDS 1 0001  Probably took an hour or
090967 - so to convert legacy links just in the one record that Gary cited.
090969 -  ..
090970 - Based on this experience, to seek out and convert all legacy line
090971 - number links, regardless of the frequency of use, seems like a big
090972 - stretch to find the time.  Conversion could take days to weeks, if all
090973 - done at once, based on the prior experience reported on 980325.
090974 - ref SDS 3 549N
090976 -  ..
090977 - On the other hand, it is pretty rare these days to run across
090978 - "important" records that have not already been converted, like the
090979 - Landauer records.  So, while there still a lot of records with legacy
090980 - line number link formats, the implication is that they are not
090981 - "important" because otherwise they would have been converted.
090983 -  ..
090984 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Gary with link to this record for
090985 - response.
090986 -
090987 -      Mention that the list of records on 971119, ref SDS 2 P270, might
090988 -      support the project he has described about upgrading the Com
090989 -      Metrics web site to guide people toward records that tell the SDS
090990 -      story.
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