Review of Kelley's files

[a_reader2003]

As I know some of you have trouble with zipped or Excel files, I have 
downloaded nearly all of the files Kelley put up yesterday and had a 
look in them to see what's there, and here is a review of the 
contents.

hpfgu - magical spreadsheet to 59544_tab.zip (1062KB)

This is just the message index for posts 1-59544 on the current site 
in an Excel format. It is useful in that it saves us time cutting and 
pasting from the site, and we could use it to start work on coding 
immediately if we add the analysis columns on the right hand side. 

Note - there is another version of this file (hpfgu - 
magicalspreadsheet to 59544.zip, which is 2579KB and which I can't 
get to download from the site as it is too big; I am hoping it is 
just another version of the same data).

hpfgu-postsum.zip

This is just another version of the same message index, this time for 
two sets of posts, 1-44485 on the current site, and (usefully) an 
index of the archive posts 1-7815 which ran between 17 Sep 1999-3 Sep 
2000, before the whole group transferred over to Yahoo.

whole_enchilada.zip
catalogue addendum.xls

These two files belong together. Essentially what they are is an 
attempt to catalogue a selection (not all) of the posts between 21230 
and 45000 on the current site. In total, 12684 posts are catalogued. 
Each post receives up to three code words, and there is an additional 
phrase describing the content of the post.

topic terms (FAQ list)

This is an 8-page list of terms and topics which are currently being 
used by the FAQ group (I think) to classify themes and ideas in the 
books. If you download anything, this is probably the most useful 
document.

What I am going to do now is prepare a merge of all the terms used on 
the FAQ list and on the two enchilada files, and then compare it with 
the current (version 2) of our subject list. I want to check that we 
have not missed anything, and that there is a place for any post that 
comes up.

Overall, however, I think the approach we have started is very 
compatible with all these previous cataloguing efforts, and will be 
much more comprehensive if we ever get it done !

Cheers
Carolyn