Hi folks,

I'm BWJM from CdnPaperMoney.com. For those who don't know me, I am the Admin at CdnPaperMoney.com and I hold executive positions in the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association and the Canadian Paper Money Society among my various other memberships.

I have been in discussion with DR recently about integrating the High/Low data from this website (CMT) with the High/Low database on the CdnPaperMoney.com site (CPM). I would like to present the plan to you folks here and see if you have any comments or concerns that we can take into consideration.

The plan is to export data in an automated fashion on a regular basis from CMT to CPM. Included in the export would be the high note and the low note for every prefix in the Canadian Journey series. (Older notes are not actively tracked at CPM).

As an example, say DR originally entered note BTX0001234 back on April 1, 2009, and he found it in Toronto. When this gets imported to CPM, it would show up as the new BTX low number similar to below:
BTX 2008 Low 00***34 DR [CMT] Toronto, ON 01-Apr-2009
BTX 2008 High 9999999 BWJM Vancouver, BC 15-Jul-2009

The serial number would be obscured (for consistency with the CMT site). Also, the original contributor's username is displayed with a link to CMT. The city, province and date of when the note was entered are also reported.

The CPM High/Low tables are accessible through the new Serial Number Database (SNDB). Users require an account on the Canadian Paper Money Forums which then grants them access to the SNDB. The SNDB is a large collaborative project designed to collect data from as many notes as possible to aid in a variety of related research projects now and in the future. The SNDB at CPM allows us to conveniently maintain the High/Low tables with zero administrative overhead on an ongoing basis, representing a 100% improvement over past ways of doing this.

If you have any comments, concerns or questions about the pending integration between the Canadian Money Tracker website and the Canadian Paper Money website, please post a reply to this thread. Thank you!

[ message was edited on: 2009/11/03 ]