Transcribers' Page
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Welcome to the FreeBMD Volunteers' and Transcribers' page.
The website is constantly under development. We appreciate your
feedback.
See what people are saying about us on our Bouquets Page.
FreeBMD is kindly hosted by The Bunker and sponsored by RootsWeb.
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Please note: Due to a lot of confusion over the transcribing of full stops (periods), all volunteers are asked to read this Policy Statement on the matter.
For the definitive guide on transcribing full stops, please see
here.
Reporting Problems
If you experience errors while using this web site, or while submitting
entries to the database, please report them to us at
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saying what you were doing (i.e. submitting, searching), the URL and the
exact time (and timezone) that this happened (including the text of any
error messages). Thank you.
Please note that this address must not be used to report errors in the data held by FreeBMD. If you have a correction to an entry click click on the
button next to the entry and follow the instructions for submitting a correction.
File Management
Statistics
Volunteer Support & Resources
Communications
Advanced Information
- Data Format. A definition of the formats for accepting entries
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Co-ordinator Resources
Data Teams
In addition to Transcribers and Co-ordinators, FreeBMD uses the services of a small number of people in a number
of teams who help to ensure that the accuracy of our data is improved. Some of these roles remain to be filled (an
announcement will be made when we are looking for people)
- District Alias Team - Co-ordinator Mary Trevan
- Query Investigation Team - Coordinator Kevin S. Howell
- Data Checking Teams - Coordinator TBA
- Resolution Teams - Coordinator TBA
- Central Resolution Team - Coordinator TBA
Developer Resources
The FreeBMD Website is maintained by a small team of developers. Additional volunteers are welcome! The pages
in this section describe the development environment that we use, the processes involved, and include some files
which are a useful reference for developers.
- The software used to run FreeBMD.
- Design Guide showing the standard format of FreeBMD Web pages.
- HTML Preprocessor giving information
about the use of the HTML preprocessor used for all FreeBMD static web
pages.
- Schedule of updates and handoffs (for FreeUKGEN).
The tools we use in the development process are CVS, a version control system, and PTS, a problem tracking system.
Below is a list of helpfiles and tutorials for the various tools and methods of development used on FreeBMD
FreeBMD Main Page
Search engine, layout and database
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