As mentioned on last week’s Sonic Society, we’re hard at work putting together a structure that I’m calling “The IMDB of Audio Drama”.

There’s a co uple of phases of completion needed:

Phase 1: Design– Progress 35%

Phase 2: Testing

Phase 3: Importing Documents– I’ll be putting up for folks an Excel Spreadsheet with instructions to allow various Audio Drama companies and individuals to complete their files and mass importing and correcting any mistakes.

Phase 4: Usernames and Passwords- I’ll be opening the floor to people who want a username and password to begin the process of maintaining and entering new content as it comes. This new phase will allow for an “Editors” window in which anyone with Editing ability will see all documents that have been Entered and be able to edit, delete, or approve into the wider database.

The platform is built solidly on the Lotus Notes database structure which is amazing for unstructured text, and robust enough to hold up to 64 gigs of data.

Here’s my pass at the front end. Notice this screen shot was cropped before it says: “© COPYRIGHT 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FOR THE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED”

So why this? Why not?

Loads of people have been making some awesome tools, but this kind of spot has always been one of my dreams. A one-stop shopping place for people to look up Actors, Musicians, Producers, Audio Drama plays and Audio Drama Organizations. Want to see all the plays with Mark Kalita? Or scripts written by B.K. Turning? Or available episode of the OTR classic Gunsmoke? Here’s where you will get it all!

Cheers!

Jack