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==Use as a source and in publications==
==Use as a source and in publications==


Inducks is used as a source by comic book historians in articles devoted to [[Disney comics]]<ref>M. Angot, ''Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées'' 89 ([http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=fr%2fCBD++89 Inducks notice]), 1999 {{fr}};
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Inducks is used as a source by comic book historians in articles devoted to [[Disney comics]]<ref>Michel Angot in ''Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées 89'', 1999 {{fr}}; Frank Stajano, the history of [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/240399.html Italian Disney comics] {{en}}, published in Nafs(k) {{sv}} and in ''Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées'' 99 {{fr}}; Disney comics historian and editor [http://www.cartoonresearch.com/gerstein/ David Gerstein]; Fausto De Salvia, [http://www.storiaefuturo.com/pdf/71.pdf part 2] of a study in ''Rivista di storia e storiografia 5'', 2004 {{it}} (translation: ''[the Italian Inducks project] is a valuable and documented source of information''); Tristan Lappoussière, [[Phil DeLara]], ''Bibliographie en France et aux États-Unis'', in ''Backup'' 12, 2002 {{fr}}; Fabrice Castanet, [http://www.pimpf.org/pimpfmag/pm13-bonus.pdf Romano Scarpa] in ''Pimpf'' 13 {{fr}}.</ref> and parts of the database have been published in book form<ref>Chapters in ''Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano'', Editrice Comic Art, A. Becattini, L. Gori, F. Stajano, 1997 {{it}}; [http://stores.lulu.com/papersera two books] published for the Reggio Emilia comic-book fair in 2007: ''Luciano Bottaro - Un "gioviale" omaggio'' and ''Rodolfo Cimino - Dalla Tana del Bestio all'Angolo dei Salici'' by Papersera {{it}}; Swedish Carl Barks index by Per Starbäck and Greger Nässén (4th edition) in NAFS(k)uriren 5, made in collaboration with Inducks {{sv}}.</ref> or in comic journals<ref>''Carl Barks: Bibliographie'', in ''Backup'' 8, 2001 {{fr}}; ''Les belles histoires Walt Disney'', in ''Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées'' 81, 1996, and 91, 2000 {{fr}}</ref>. A few Inducks projects, specific to certain countries, have been the subject of articles<ref>''Da Fossati al'Inducks: il progetto I.N.D.U.C.K.S.'', in ''Notiziario della Anonima Fumetti'', 1999 ([http://marcobar.outducks.org/DisneyIndex/AFscan.html link]) {{it}}.</ref>. Inducks is also used by Disney editors around the world<ref>See for instance [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qus%2fMM++287A ''Mickey Mouse And Friends'' 287] (''special thanks to Inducks.org [...] for information provided in this editorial''); [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qfi%2fRS2006-02C Finnish ''Roope-setä'' 2006-02] (translation: ''for the editorial staff I.N.D.U.C.K.S. is almost a daily tool for tracking and finding the best stories''); [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qfi%2fAA2006-16A Finnish Aku Ankka 2006-16] (translation: ''As our helper we have the global Donald-enthusiasts database Inducks, that has cataloged almost every Disney publication of the world''); [http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=it%2fMD+++20 Italian ''I Maestri Disney'' 20] (translation: ''thanks to Inducks for the courteous collaboration'').</ref>.

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F. Stajano, ''Disney-serier i Italien'', NAFS(k)uriren 30-32, 1999-2000 ([http://www.nafsk.se/nafskeng.html NAFS(k) website] {{sv}} later translated in shorter form in ''Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées'' 99 {{fr}}; [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/240399.html revised English version]; F. De Salvia, [http://www.storiaefuturo.com/pdf/71.pdf part 2] of a study in ''Rivista di storia e storiografia 5'', 2004 {{it}} (translation: ''[the Italian Inducks project] is a valuable and documented source of information''); T. Lapoussière, ''[[Phil DeLara]], bibliographie en France et aux États-Unis'', Backup 12, 2002 {{fr}}; F. Castanet, [http://www.pimpf.org/pimpfmag/pm13-bonus.pdf Romano Scarpa] in ''Pimpf'' 13 {{fr}}.</ref> and parts of the database have been published in book form.<ref>Chapters in ''Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano'', published by Comic Art, A. Becattini, L. Gori, F. Stajano, 1997 {{it}}, in ''Luciano Bottaro - Un "gioviale" omaggio'' and ''Rodolfo Cimino - Dalla Tana del Bestio all'Angolo dei Salici'' two books published by ''Papersera'' for the Reggio Emilia comic-book fair, 2007 {{it}}.</ref> or in comic journals<ref>P. Starbäck, G. Nässén, ''Carl Barks index (4th edition)'', NAFS(k)uriren 5 {{sv}}; ''Carl Barks: Bibliographie'', Backup 8, 2001 {{fr}}; ''Les belles histoires Walt Disney'', Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées 81, 91, 1996, 2000 {{fr}}.</ref> A few Inducks projects, specific to certain countries, have been the subject of articles<ref>M. Barlotti, ''Da Fossati al'Inducks: il progetto I.N.D.U.C.K.S.'', Notiziario della Anonima Fumetti, 1999 ([http://marcobar.outducks.org/DisneyIndex/AFscan.html scan]) {{it}}.</ref>. Inducks is also used by Disney editors around the world<ref>See for instance [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qus%2fMM++287A ''Mickey Mouse And Friends'' 287] (''special thanks to Inducks.org [...] for information provided in this editorial''); [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qfi%2fRS2006-02C Finnish ''Roope-setä'' 2006-02] (translation: ''for the editorial staff I.N.D.U.C.K.S. is almost a daily tool for tracking and finding the best stories''); [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=Qfi%2fAA2006-16A Finnish Aku Ankka 2006-16] (translation: ''As our helper we have the global Donald-enthusiasts database Inducks, that has cataloged almost every Disney publication of the world''); [http://coa.inducks.org/issue.php?c=it%2fMD+++20 Italian ''I Maestri Disney'' 20] (translation: ''thanks to Inducks for the courteous collaboration'').</ref>.


It is mentioned as a source by scholars in general studies about comics or litterature<ref>[http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/2083/1/Menon+Umberto_tesi.pdf Thesis] for the ''Università degli Studi di Trieste'' {{it}}; [http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/Staff/leppihalme/sitcu_maarit.rtf report] for the ''Studies at the Interface of Translation and Culture'' {{fi}}; [http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/ifak/publikationen/ifak/pdfs/DA_Herrmann.pdf thesis] titled ''Literatur in Comic-Adaptionen Ein aktueller Überblick'' {{de icon}}; [http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1072/1/thesis.pdf thesis] for the ''Universitetet i Tromsø'' {{no icon}}; [http://imocosrl.com/download/car/downloads/tesi.PDF thesis] for the ''Politecnico di Milano'' {{it}}; [http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1072/1/thesis.pdf thesis] for the ''Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona'' {{es}}; research [http://www.akademiai.com/content/gk340u608ww22244/ paper] on Dylan Dog, 2004.</ref>, referenced in books<ref>[http://www.amazon.fr/comics-hommes-Histoire-culturelle-Etats-Unis/dp/2842743091/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200163222&sr=1-2 Des comics et des hommes]: ''Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats-Unis,'' by Jean-Paul Gabilliet {{fr}}; ''Stripkatalogus'' by Hans Matla, published by ''Uitgeverij Panda'', 1998 (9th ed.) {{nl}}.</ref>
It is mentioned as a source by scholars in general studies about comics or litterature<ref>[http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/2083/1/Menon+Umberto_tesi.pdf Thesis] for the ''Università degli Studi di Trieste'' {{it}}; [http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/Staff/leppihalme/sitcu_maarit.rtf report] for the ''Studies at the Interface of Translation and Culture'' {{fi}}; [http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/ifak/publikationen/ifak/pdfs/DA_Herrmann.pdf thesis] titled ''Literatur in Comic-Adaptionen Ein aktueller Überblick'' {{de icon}}; [http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1072/1/thesis.pdf thesis] for the ''Universitetet i Tromsø'' {{no icon}}; [http://imocosrl.com/download/car/downloads/tesi.PDF thesis] for the ''Politecnico di Milano'' {{it}}; [http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1072/1/thesis.pdf thesis] for the ''Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona'' {{es}}; research [http://www.akademiai.com/content/gk340u608ww22244/ paper] on Dylan Dog, 2004.</ref>, referenced in books<ref>[http://www.amazon.fr/comics-hommes-Histoire-culturelle-Etats-Unis/dp/2842743091/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200163222&sr=1-2 Des comics et des hommes]: ''Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats-Unis,'' by Jean-Paul Gabilliet {{fr}}; ''Stripkatalogus'' by Hans Matla, published by ''Uitgeverij Panda'', 1998 (9th ed.) {{nl}}.</ref>

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INDUCKS
World-wide database about Disney comics
Type of site
database (of comics).
Available inDanish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Ownercollective.
Created byHarry Fluks[1]
URLhttp://inducks.org/
Commercialno.
Registration(optional.)

INDUCKS or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney comics ever printed in the world. It is an international project[2] which provides indexes of around 80,000[3] Disney comics publications worldwide. It is distributed with its own licence.[4]

History and name

Inducks was founded by Harry Fluks (from the Netherlands) around April 1994[1]. Its first contributors came from the Disney Comics Mailing List[5] that was launched in August 1992 by Per Starbäck from Sweden. Following discussions and expanding on information exchanged on the mailing list, Fluks created a database to organize comic indexes, and called it the Disney Comics Database.

A German member suggested the name Inducks as a cross between "index" and "duck" (for Donald Duck). It was playfully written I.N.D.U.C.K.S. (now usually Inducks) to resemble acronyms seen in Junior Woodchucks comics.[1] While the administrators claim "I.N.D.U.C.K.S." does stand for something, no meaning has been selected to date, though several suggestions have been offered by the administrators themselves, including "Internet Database for Uncle Walt's Comics and Stories", "International Network for Disney Universal Comic Knowledge and Sources", and even "Inducks: The Name for the Disney Universe Comics Knowledge System".[6]

Data details

Today the database lists publications, stories, characters and authors which are cross-referenced. Each story is given a unique storycode so that reprints (often from all over the world) may be found for any story.

Inducks integrates previous studies and research works, with permission of the authors[7] as well as its own research. Thanks to contacts with authors[8], it provides credits to stories which are not credited or sometimes wrongly credited in Disney comic-books (in particular, most Disney comics weren't given credits until the 1980s or 1990s). It also contains information about unpublished Disney comics stories.[9]

The main interface to Inducks is a search engine, browser and website abbreviated COA, which is daily updated based on Inducks data, and is available in thirteen languages[10]. While COA uses Inducks data, it is not part of Inducks itself, but it enables users to navigate and search data which in its raw form consists of very user-unfriendly text files[11].

Use as a source and in publications

Inducks is used as a source by comic book historians in articles devoted to Disney comics[12] and parts of the database have been published in book form.[13] or in comic journals[14] A few Inducks projects, specific to certain countries, have been the subject of articles[15]. Inducks is also used by Disney editors around the world[16].

It is mentioned as a source by scholars in general studies about comics or litterature[17], referenced in books[18] and has been the subject of criticisms, from a purely bibliographical point of view[19].

Inducks has once in a while given talks and held meetings in comic-book fairs in Italy, such as in Lucca in 1997, with Don Rosa and Marco Rota[20] and in Reggio Emilia in 2007[21]. In 2004, it won an Internet award[22] from afNews, an association of Professional cartoonists in Italy.

References

  1. ^ a b c Interviews of H. Fluks in the fanzines Ankkalinnan Pamaus 2000-02 Template:Fi icon (online English version), in DDF(R)appet 5 Template:Da icon and on a fan website.
  2. ^ As of January 2008, 26 contributors have provided more than 1,000 indexes, see the full list here.
  3. ^ As of January 1, 2008, see the statistics at Inducks.
  4. ^ H. Fluks, F. Stajano, Inducks Licence Version 4B.
  5. ^ Commonly refered to as the DCML.
  6. ^ From the Bolderbast, an Inducks website.
  7. ^ For instance, a Carl Barks index Template:It icon from the Franco Fossati Foundation; a complete list is given at Inducks.
  8. ^ The Brazilian "branch" of Inducks lists about 30 authors who provide information Template:Pt icon; see also e.g. Italian comic writer Leonardo Gori's biographical notice Template:It.
  9. ^ As of January 12, about 2,000 shelved stories are listed.
  10. ^ Interview with the creator of COA, DDF(R)appet 10, 2007. Template:Da icon.
  11. ^ Technical details at Inducks.
  12. ^ M. Angot, Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées 89 (Inducks notice), 1999 Template:Fr; F. Stajano, Disney-serier i Italien, NAFS(k)uriren 30-32, 1999-2000 (NAFS(k) website Template:Sv later translated in shorter form in Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées 99 Template:Fr; revised English version; F. De Salvia, part 2 of a study in Rivista di storia e storiografia 5, 2004 Template:It (translation: [the Italian Inducks project] is a valuable and documented source of information); T. Lapoussière, Phil DeLara, bibliographie en France et aux États-Unis, Backup 12, 2002 Template:Fr; F. Castanet, Romano Scarpa in Pimpf 13 Template:Fr.
  13. ^ Chapters in Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano, published by Comic Art, A. Becattini, L. Gori, F. Stajano, 1997 Template:It, in Luciano Bottaro - Un "gioviale" omaggio and Rodolfo Cimino - Dalla Tana del Bestio all'Angolo dei Salici two books published by Papersera for the Reggio Emilia comic-book fair, 2007 Template:It.
  14. ^ P. Starbäck, G. Nässén, Carl Barks index (4th edition), NAFS(k)uriren 5 Template:Sv; Carl Barks: Bibliographie, Backup 8, 2001 Template:Fr; Les belles histoires Walt Disney, Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées 81, 91, 1996, 2000 Template:Fr.
  15. ^ M. Barlotti, Da Fossati al'Inducks: il progetto I.N.D.U.C.K.S., Notiziario della Anonima Fumetti, 1999 (scan) Template:It.
  16. ^ See for instance Mickey Mouse And Friends 287 (special thanks to Inducks.org [...] for information provided in this editorial); Finnish Roope-setä 2006-02 (translation: for the editorial staff I.N.D.U.C.K.S. is almost a daily tool for tracking and finding the best stories); Finnish Aku Ankka 2006-16 (translation: As our helper we have the global Donald-enthusiasts database Inducks, that has cataloged almost every Disney publication of the world); Italian I Maestri Disney 20 (translation: thanks to Inducks for the courteous collaboration).
  17. ^ Thesis for the Università degli Studi di Trieste Template:It; report for the Studies at the Interface of Translation and Culture ; thesis titled Literatur in Comic-Adaptionen Ein aktueller Überblick Template:De icon; thesis for the Universitetet i Tromsø Template:No icon; thesis for the Politecnico di Milano Template:It; thesis for the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Template:Es; research paper on Dylan Dog, 2004.
  18. ^ Des comics et des hommes: Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats-Unis, by Jean-Paul Gabilliet Template:Fr; Stripkatalogus by Hans Matla, published by Uitgeverij Panda, 1998 (9th ed.) Template:Nl.
  19. ^ Bibliographical essay from Edutemps Template:Fr.
  20. ^ Photos of the events.
  21. ^ Report of the fair organizers Template:It.
  22. ^ Web link Template:It.
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