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<p>[QUOTE="Dave M, post: 1555403, member: 17469"]Rishi,</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not much into coins, I have a small collection of medals at <a href="http://www.go-fast.org/exonumia/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.go-fast.org/exonumia/" rel="nofollow">http://www.go-fast.org/exonumia/</a> and my banknotes which are my main focus. I think lots of folks like presenting a digital version of their collection, but one of the tricky parts is in the management of the information. Folks save info in spreadsheets, photos, etc, and would like an "automatic" page generated with all the info, write-ups, etc. There's a leap there, either doing it manually, or somehow extracting stuff from that spreadsheet, combining it with known catalog info, and turning it into a web page. The latter is of course a huge value add for someone, whereas the former is a bit like giving them an editor and sending them on their way.</p><p><br /></p><p>My banknote collection, as an example, is completely stored as XML data, which of course is something a "digital collection web site creator" can parse and create a page from. But I suspect I am one of less than 2 folks on the planet who store their collection as XML.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll be curious to follow what you're doing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Dave M, post: 1555403, member: 17469"]Rishi, I'm not much into coins, I have a small collection of medals at [url]http://www.go-fast.org/exonumia/[/url] and my banknotes which are my main focus. I think lots of folks like presenting a digital version of their collection, but one of the tricky parts is in the management of the information. Folks save info in spreadsheets, photos, etc, and would like an "automatic" page generated with all the info, write-ups, etc. There's a leap there, either doing it manually, or somehow extracting stuff from that spreadsheet, combining it with known catalog info, and turning it into a web page. The latter is of course a huge value add for someone, whereas the former is a bit like giving them an editor and sending them on their way. My banknote collection, as an example, is completely stored as XML data, which of course is something a "digital collection web site creator" can parse and create a page from. But I suspect I am one of less than 2 folks on the planet who store their collection as XML. I'll be curious to follow what you're doing. Dave[/QUOTE]
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