I am delighted to announce that we have added several hundred new objects to the Presidential Timeline.
Initial additions were made to the Carter timelines, many of them related to the Iran hostage crisis, but also including some others from Early Life and Career. These objects were added entirely “by hand” which took somewhere in the vicinity of 20 to 30 minutes each (and that does refer to EACH page of a multipage document).
For some time, we have been working on a tool (a php application, for those who care) to automate some of this process. We first tried the tool with 78 new images and 15 new audio files for the FDR timeline, then followed up by adding 119 objects (a total of 380 pages) to the Ford timelines.
The tool worked quite well, doing its part of the processing at the rate of about 10 seconds per page. Keep in mind that there are SEVEN different versions of each page/image in the system – two different sizes of thumbnails, two different sizes of images in the Flash version, and three different sizes of images in the html version. All told, it took about 15 hours to add these objects to the timeline. (There’s more work beyond that which the tool accomplishes.)
The bottom line is that we now have a total of 944 objects on the Presidential Timeline, up by 226 since the initial rollout (718 objects)!
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