Cataloging A Movie And Music Library

If you have a movie or music collection, you've probably tried to track it using speadsheets, databases, or custom tools with varying degrees of success. Sometimes those tools disappear, change, or they no longer meet your requirements. Sometimes the companies making those tools will change their business model and you end up paying to access the same information you freely contributed.

This session covers a coding and data project designed to build and maintain a local media catalog that gives you the flexibility of tracking your collection, analyzing it, and developing your own tools to maintain it.

Key topics include:

• A history of online tools and the pitfalls of user contributed data.
• Building data structures suitable for movies and music.
• Validation and completeness.
• Creating reports on collection data.
• Coding examples using Python and basic Git operations.
• Future directions and goals of the project.

• Other
• Design