Another year gone bye, let’s look at our progress. First, just for the month of December, as I try to report each month. As with November, I have been preoccupied with work on the new Antiques and Collectibles website, which I hope to announce in the next few weeks. So ClassyArts has been on the ‘back burner’ — but even so we get some new work done on it from time to time. We added nearly 1,000 photographer records and 130 images to the databases. No new work on the dated images or photograph dating sections, but I have continued to collect more dated images and other relevant data, there just has not been time to integrate it all into the site yet. By February, I hope to begin splitting effort between this site and the antiques site 50/50, and we should begin to see more progress then. Here is the December report:
2011 Dec 31
86353 Photographer records [995 increase]
2393 Digital Images archives [29 increase]
1429 Pending Images collection [105 increase]
835 Dated Photograph Imprints from 681 photographers [no increase]
26 Pages Dating Old Photographs (132k) [no increase]
Now let us turn our attention to the year in review. I added almost 20,000 names to the photographers database. If I manage to do anywhere near that in 2012 that database will exceed the 100,000 landmark. I added over 3,000 images to the databases, almost as many in the pending images collection as in the main archives — even though the pending images collection was only begun in September. The dated imprints and photography dating sections were also both new in 2011, so the progress there will serve as a benchmark for future efforts. Here are the same totals as above, but the increase measure is for the year, rather than one month:
2011 Total Change For The Year:
86353 Photographer records [19,422 increase]
2393 Digital Images archives [1763 increase]
1429 Pending Images collection [1429 increase] (since Sep)
835 Dated Photograph Imprints from 681 photographers [835/681 increase] (since Jun)
26 Pages Dating Old Photographs (132k) [26 increase] (since Sep)
I hope everyone who reads this has a prosperous, healthful and enjoyable 2012.
