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www.dvdholocron.com

I’ve been lurking in these forums for about a year now, posting occasionally, and reading ALOT. I recently was thinking on how to contribute to the community, but having absolutely no video editing skills, I was at an impasse. While figuring the best way to catalog the collection I have amassed (thanks mostly to these forums) I decided to do it online. The end result is the DVDHolocron, an interactive repository of Star Wars DVD Knowledge. Featuring a wiki with over 120 DVD’s (so far), including cover art, trailers, screen shots, etc., and a blog where I intend to post breaking news in the community (new DVD’s released and/or announced), reviews, and other Star Wars related video news such as scheduled airings of TV shows.

I hope you all enjoy it, I am hoping to bring your work to a larger audience. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts. (I know the blog needs a little work, but my main focus has been the wiki… a new blog template will be coming soon.

www.dvdholocron.com
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NOTE: I’m not trying to step on any toes with this site. If your work is listed inaccurately, credited wrongly, or not credited at all, please register and correct it (that’s what a wiki is all about), or let me know and I will take care of it.

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As you know Mathiias, I found your beta site some weeks ago. And what a great site it is. Great idea, well executed and I look forward to it becoming very popular indeed.

Best of luck.

JD

Creator of Star Wars Begins, Building Empire and Returning to Jedi
Follow me on twitter @jamieSWB. Please support me at - http://www.patreon.com/jamiebenning/

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Great site Mathiias! Please let me know if would require any help with information or DVD donations, and I'll happily sort you out.
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Thanks for all the kind words, I put a lot opf work into the site (still doing so, hope to have tutorials up this weekend) and it's always nice to have positive feedback. And Faustus, thanks for the offer. As it is a wiki, if you register you will be able to edit pages directly. If you don't feel like doing that, sending me NFO files for DVD's I'm missing could be helpful, they tend to contain a good bit of relevant info.
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I say Good Luck and go for it..........

Something like this is tough to get going and even tougher to keep on top of - especially on your own.

I have been working on my Galactic Trade Federation site for about two years now and it is still nothing like I want it to be. I have good spells working on the site but then Darth Real Life comes to town and messes up all my plans!!!!!

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Hi Mathiias,

I tried uploading a 3.3Mb Cover.jpeg but no luck. Is there a site limit on uploads ?
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This is a great idea, as Russs15 has pointed out, it's a time consuming job for one person to keep track of, so having a community which can imput the data is very necessary, especially to those looking to get involved a wiki is an easy way to contribute. This way a creator can post their .nfo shortly after the disc is released.

Maybe put the official releases first just so that if someone with influence does see the site, they maybe more forgiving since you gave the official stuff high priority. (and I would change the direct link to torrents. Convert them to a search query as vcdquality does. Although it will piss off some leechers looking for a quick fix, it will remove one level of direct responsability for the file distribution from the site.)

Since you've mentioned TV shows, how complicated do you want to get? OT.com was discussing collecting all the SW Documentaries and the following static database was created: Flimsiplast Database to just document what was out there. (the "Casting Auditions" has an example individual entry) It was an idea of how to display the info and a start to see how vast the possibilities were.

FYI: OT.com Upcoming SW TV Thread
YouTube/GoogleVideo/Etc. is a whole other category to consider.

Looks and works great! Thanks for the contribution.
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Again, thanks for all the kind words and support. I know it's a lot of work, I've been working on this every day for about 2 months (at least 2 hours a day, some days as many as 14 or so hours).

ColinK: Thanks for all the infor you've been adding, now I just gotta sort through all of it and make sure everything is categorized properly. And as far as uploading images, it's working fine for me, and for ThrowgnCpr, who has uploading some covers, so I don't know what to tell ya, sorry.

ThrowgnCpr: Thanks for the uploads, I will categorize them and make sure they appear on the appropriate pages.

none: Your suggestions are duly noted. I had considered adding a category like "Source Material" that would list all the TV shows, wtc. that appear on these various releases, including links to which releases contain said shows... It's something I'm still considering, but that would be a future update... I still have a lot to do just to fill out what is already there.

And a note to all who are contributing: If you have info, graphics, etc., that are not included on the site, feel free to register and upload, correct, etc... or, if you are not comfortable with that, you could email them to me. And don't be intimdated by the complexity of some of the articles, if you want to add to them, go right ahead... I get a complete list of all changes made, and I will correct, recategorize, etc. to fix mistakes and make it fit in with the conventions of the DVDHolocron.
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great site, really good to see my stuff on there....makes me feel all official

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

 

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Thanks again for all the support and uploads. I've been a little slow categorizing all the covers you guys have been uploading, as I'm having a rough week, and I've been working on the blog a lot. The blog is a companion piece to the wiki, featuring tutorials on getting the most out of DVDHolocron, as well as all the latest in Star Wars on TV and DVD News. It's currently running on a barely modified default Wordpress template. I haven't spent much time customizing it, as I'm contemplating switching to Mambo/Joomla, but it still looks pretty good.
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I've got the majority of one of the old SW DVD Collections from myspleen which I've added onto with many other files I've found here and elsewhere. if I can send you everything you can upload it if you'd like.
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If I might throw a bit of caution your way, it is good to be mindful that many of the covers out there weren't necessarily for a specific release, but for general laserdisc transfers and the like. Also I'm wondering whether you will be hosting variant covers made for different projects. I have prolly 10 different covers for Deleted Magic, for instance.
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I am aware that there exist many covers for general laserdisc transfers. I have many of them, although they are not on the site yet, as my priorities were getting articles up for as many different different DVD's as I could before going live. I am probably going to create a new category, such as "Generic Trilogy Covers" or something similar, containing all of these.

I will host variant covers. I have been working on putting galleries at the bottom of articles for DVD's that have multiple covers, but I haven't uploaded many variants yet, a higher priority was making sure I had at least one cover for as many of the releases I could.

kaine23: sending me the covers would be awesome! should I PM you my address?
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Very cool site, Matthias! Thanks for the hard work you've put into it. I look forward to seeing it completed.

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Mathiias, this is waaayy cool. Thanks for putting in the effort and time to create this resource.
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It's close to 1.30 gigs, anyway to send it to you on aim or anyway else?
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What ever happened to that TPM theatrical laserdisc project anyway?
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kaine23: sent you a pm with my AIM Screen Name, thanks

Molly: Dowloaded your covers, I'll be uploading and listing them this evening

ThrowgnCpr: Got them and putting them up this evening as well, thanks for all the support!

Feel free to keep em coming, and nfo's for the disc that I don't have listed are appreciated as well. You can post them on the wiki, post links here, or email them to me as attachments at "mathiias at dvdholocron dot com"
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