Warp wrote:
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
>> As David pointed out, making the CD's was difficult - I guess primarily
>> because I didn't want to just dump the data onto the CD. I wanted to try to
>> identify the same entrant across all rounds and years  (this was more
>> difficult than it sounds) so as to maintain a list of entries and results,
>> and I wanted to re-format the text entry files into HTML (again, more
>> difficult than it sounds, especially with the changes made to the files by
>> the IRTC submission system - stripping high characters, re-wrapping the
>> text, and so forth). In the end I just couldn't justify the time.
> 
>   That sounds like the IRTC would benefit from a database where entrants
> and entries are automatically collected. Such a database would probably
> make it a lot easier to do things like you describe.
> 

That's exactly what I'm working on.  The database will be PostgreSQL and 
  it would track all contests (stills, animation, and others), all 
rounds of the contests, all submissions, all users, and all voting 
results.  The site will be almost completely automatic.

David Buck

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