Museum Coden Search
Museum codens are great - if you know what coden relates to what museum. However they can be a bit frustrating if you have no idea! The days of the Natural History Museum, London being the British Museum (Natural History) are long gone. However the BMNH coden still remains.A while ago I was searching through documents for codens. I needed a comprehensive list so I scraped the Bishop Museum's list into a MySQL database. Thankfully they have a logical HTML structure and besides one small error (corrected in a matter of hours) the list was easily parsed.
Creating a local copy saved having to repeatedly hit their site and eat their bandwidth.
I made a slightly improved search engine for the list that automatically searches for redirects (AHCC is apaprently a museum coden synonym of ARHC).
I have made this available here for anybody who is interested.
This will hopefully link in (at some point) with some phasmid related projects that I have tiime to work on occassionally.