Any Takers?

date posted 18th May 2002 22:24

This is a long shot but is anyone desperate enough to do this job?



Following up on our phone conversation when I was in Wales, I am looking
for someone smart and quick to design for me a database which will be a
search engine for a series of approximately 2000 drawings. It needs to
work like an index and its end product will be a CD ROM for both Mac and
PC. I will enter the information on a Mac.

The drawings of the titles run something like this:

LIVE TRANSMISSION: movement of the hands of Keith Jarrett while
performing the jazz standard "Hallucinations"/The Arena / Verona Jazz
Festival / Verona, Italia / 25 July 2000

I need to run the database to search for this drawing by, for example:
music>jazz>piano>Jarrett>Hallucination>Verona Jazz Festival
Italy>Verona>2000>25 July>The Arena

another:
LIVE TRANSMISSION: movement of the hands of Cloris Brosca while peeling
cucumbers in her kitchen in Roma, Italia/ 20 October 1996 culinary
activity>kitchen>Roma, Italia>1996>20 October> Cloris Brosca>actress

The basic questions what, where, when, why, how with both general and
specific responses to each question are essential.

The list of locations, for example should have something like a pull
down menu so I can start with a continent, go to a country, then to a
city:
Europe>Italy>Rome>kitchen

I think you get the idea.

Also, each drawing will be scanned to go with the title info.

If you have any ideas about someone good who can help, I'd really
appreciate your input. It needs to be ready for me to do input no later
than September. I need someone who can design it as well as teach me how
to use it. I am seeking research funding from Dartington for this and
may be able to come up with more if they help. Right now I can pay $500
for the job. You say it's a weekend's work...

Please let me know. Thanks very much.

To see the beginnings of the process, please check my website at:
http://www.harvestworks.org/creativec/index3.html

This database will be an important part of my PhD Thesis at Dartington.