D20 Modern/Future Index

[The Black Kestrel]

It occured to me while I was designing some items for my game that I have a fairly large D20 Modern collection with all sorts of cool stuff scattered in the various books. My biggest problem is finding the exact item I'm after without having to look through all my books/pdfs. The solution of course is index of everything in my D20 Modern collection.

Indexing all my books and files will be a Herculean if I do it by myself so I'm throwing it out there as a community project. How many people would be willing to particpate in building the D20 Modern Index? Right now I have an Excel spreadsheet with a basic format that I'm using. What I'm looking for is people who are willing to volunteer thier time to index the D20 Modern products that they own and share it with everyone else working on the project. Eventually I'd like to make monthly releases available to the community.

Anyone interested?

 

[Roudi]

Is this an index of just products, or products and their contents?

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I think you would have to include descriptions of the contents to make the index useful. I own a few, and can do some. However, if we want a pretty-looking index, wikicities is the best place for that.

 

[The Black Kestrel]

Contents, with a Source column for the products. Attached is my prototype spreadsheet with some of the data filled in. It's current form isn't locked in and any comments you might have are appreciated.

Eventually I'd like to make it available on the web, the wiki format may be one way of doing that

 

[Roudi]

Heh... this pretty much excludes my non-Excell-having butt.

Good luck with this.

 

[The Black Kestrel]

Not really, as long as you can put the data in table form (html, word or Open Office) I can import. No wriggling out that easy

 

[Roudi]

Hehe, true. But it also means I can't tell what kind of formatting you want for the database (ie, what parameters you want filled out for each work). If you could post a list, I could get started with the products on my hard drive / bookshelf.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Openoffice.org is free and will open and xls file and save back to it.

Can't get out of it that easy

 

[Roudi]

Got OpenOffice and the spreadsheet.

 

[The Black Kestrel]

Attached is a .mht version, you should be able to view it in IE. You may get a warning from IE when you try open it.