[ANSTHRLD] pictorial armorial

[Jennifer Smith]

> Francois wrote:
> >  Once, a while back... a good gentle from out of kingdom 
> had started a
> >  roll for Ansteorra.  It was at:
> >  http://heraldry.griffin-dor.org/Ansteorra/index.php    I 
> see that the
> >  site no longer has that information available.  
> 
> I corresponded with him not too long ago to get an image 
> corrected.  At that time he told me he had thought he had 
> removed the site as he was no longer maintaining it.  He did 
> tell me he had sent all the images, etc to a herald here in 
> Ansteorra (though I am not sure he remembers who).

That *may* have been me. I did get a huge chunk of images from some herald
in Lochac.

This is one of my Pet Projects I'd Like To See Done. :) 

As Asterisk, and now as Bordure, I've been scanning all colored emblazons
(and the line ones too as Asterisk, of course); the earlier ones I
color-corrected, the later ones (as Bordure) I don't. So everything from the
end of 2004 onward is already scanned.

(The trick with pulling files and scanning old artwork, is that before a
certain point, the artwork was considered copyrighted, and it's a grey area
whether or not we have fair use rights to stick it up on the web. Those can
be recreated, of course, if they haven't already been by that Lochacian
herald, but that's a bit more time. It shouldn't stop us from going ahead,
since we'll be constantly adding to the thing anyway!)

We have plenty (believe me) of web space, and the tools available to code up
practically anything.

So, really, the big issue is organization online.  I would LIKE to see some
sort of hooks in the OP program (Francois?) so that when you pull up
someone's OP entry, you can see their armory if registered; or you can
browse the Roll of Arms, and be able to also pull up a person's OP entry.
This probably means a separate program/database for the Roll of Arms stuff,
with some sort of data passing both ways between it and the OP program...
This is where I get fuzzy about things, ha!

I've heard a few people mumbling about wanting/being able to write such a
thing. I'll happily supply the graphics I have and help out in any way I can
there. 

-Emma, Bordure