If you’ve been watching, you’d have noticed several things happening.

Covers and content listings for all 84 issues of Model Military International magazine have been uploaded.  That brings us up to over 3,100 article references already (MilMod and MMI combined).

Also, we’ve started back-filling issues of Military Modelling prior to Volume 20. Our current earliest issue indexed is April 1971 (Vol 1 No 4!). You’ll see these fill in progressively.

You may have noticed things filling out along the top menu bar too. You can now browse Personal and Corporate names and view related resources. So, you can look up Steve Zaloga, for instance, and view the list of all 136 articles we have indexed (I think we’ve only scratched the surface on that one!!).

Subject headings are now visible, and are about to expand by quite a lot.  We’ve got over 6,000 vehicle / aircraft / ship listings almost ready to be added to the database.  Then we gotta link the resources (books, articles etc) to the subjects.  You’ll notice that we’ve done some subject linking on some magazine articles already – this will grow rapidly once we’ve got the data matching down pat (ie producing an acceptable level of bizarre cross-references – oh well).

The Coverage menu items currently have only blank holding pages, but will start to fill out very soon.  “Coverage” is a library concept referring to the time period (temporal), or geographic area, covered (or addressed by) the resource. For example, clicking on “Napoleonic Period” will bring up everything we have related to this period (books, magazine articles etc) – provided it’s indexed correctly of course.  Ahem.  Likewise for geographic areas.

We’ll also start filling out the content “down” the menu list too. A few books, DVDs, model kits etc will be entered to show examples of the various types of content the database is designed to keep track of, and which will fill out over time.

So, there’s plenty to be getting on with.  Stay tuned!

Oh, and please disregard the post date – it has no significance whatsoever. No really.