Just launched on the Compendium is an early preview of events data for all the artists available. It can be accessed from any artist entry by clicking the ‘upcoming events’ link at the top of the page (just underneath the artist name).
It’s very much an initial dip in the water – it’s unstyled and unformatted, and frankly pretty damn rough and ready. But it’s working, and that’s the exciting thing. At this stage, the Compendium is automagically determining your current location with a pinch of magic powder, and attempts to provide details of any relevant upcoming events for the selected artist. Events data comes courtesy of eventful.com.
This geolocation method does need to be tuned, and will be modified to offer a choice of location in case it doesn’t accurately choose a location for you in the first instance. Along with lots more usability improvements for ‘events’, this is the first of a series of planned updates to the Compendium over the coming month or so.
And now, a few Compendium statistics:
- Total number of Artists known : 55,358
- Total number of Releases known : 62,963
- Volume of cover artwork stored: 1.2GB
- Volume of raw Compendium data stored: 2.5GB
- Total number of web-services consumed: 9
- Average number of web-service calls made per page: 11
- Average level of awesomeness of artist viewed: high
- Typical data retrieval speed: Ninja-speed
- Volume of coffee consumed: Dangerous
- Hours of sleep lost: Not that much, actually…
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