Astro*Talk: Terabyte of Free Data
By Michael Erlewine
These are the years of my dispersal of archived material: film, movies, rock concert posters, music data, astrology books, and a lot of the stuff.
In addition, I am getting ready to release a terabyte of astrological data to astrologers, Astro*Talk, not just the 50 or so free e-books I have written, but thousands of articles as well; In addition, many, many thousands of illustrations of all aspects of astrology as well.
The “Erlewine Astro Archive.”
This will all be available to the public and they are welcome to pick through it as they wish and download whatever is useful to their practice, whatever they are doing. No charge, but they will have to credit me for whatever they end up using.
That’s just for the casual picker-out of what I would call the low-hanging fruit. For the more industrious astro-researcher or entrepreneur, I offer hundreds of Adobe Illustrator files that create charts, graphs, and all kind of stuff. You will have to know and have Adobe Illustrator.
And even more useful also, I offer hundreds of databases in Microsoft Access, Foxpro, and mostly in DBF format, and you can download a free DBF viewer and export the data in CSV, Excel, and other binary formats.
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I have interpretations for thousands of astrological combinations, planetary pictures, Ebertin combinations, all kinds of stuff (Chinese and Tibetan astrology, etc.) plus a large astrological glossary (444 pages) made possible not only by me, but by astrologers like Gary Duncan, and Michael Munkasey who helped to build it over the years, now all in the public domain.
Meanwhile, I am working through this Terabyte of data for release, leaving comments and how-to-use-this remarks.
This data will be available through a few selected archival organizations, and folks will be able to browse this data on these sites and download what is useful for your work. I will donate this, however these organizations may charge a nominal fee for access to the data to help support their servers, yet it won’t be much.
Anyway, that’s the project. I am working on it now and will soon send a TB drive to each of the archiving organizations, which include Alexandria iBase Project, Kepler College, and archivist Philip Graves.
EMAIL Michael@Erlewine.net Note: If you would like to have access to other free books, articles, and videos on these topics, here are the links: SpiritGrooves.net.
As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it,
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.
