More on board games in Tellico

Raphaël Pinson recently blogged about using Tellico for his collection of board games. He'd emailed me to ask about searching Amazon, so I expanding the Tellico search to include Toys. That'll be in the next version release, 1.3.4 I guess.

The catch is that Amazon just lumps a lot of the information as BrowseNodes, including the number of players, game genre, age group, and others. And, as my fiancee would say, the vocabulary is not controlled at all. The format is free-form, for the most part. I can't really blame Amazon for that, but it does make it impossible to sort through meaningfully.

And unfortunately, Tellico and GCstar don't import and export board game collections from each other yet, so I my suggestion to Raphaël to use the GCstar plugin didn't work.

I'll have to take a shot at getting that import working in Tellico, at least. My list of things to work on grows!

Recent Entries

  • Babies, Babies, Babies!

    Kim and I had a bit of a surprise one morning, a couple of days after Christmas. We came downstairs to find that our fish...

  • LA Times Blog: 'Big Bang Theory' is an evolved portrayal of scientists

    Steven Paul Lieva writes in the LA Times blogs about being a fanboy of The Big Bang Theory. I'm a fanboy myself. In the face...

  • The Bilingual Ban That Worked

    I read an interesting article on bilingual education, which focused on California. "The Bilingual Ban That Worked" gives a pretty good history of the evolution...

  • Nice work if you can get it

    The Hill reports that the House of Representatives will work eight days in January and nine days in February. "The House vote schedule for 2010...

  • New Blog Theme

    I've used the same hand-crafted style for my blog almost since the beginning. I was bored this weekend, so I went looking for Movable Type...

Close