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Inducks

February 03, 2023

The International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources[1] (I.N.D.U.C.K.S.) or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney Universe comics ever printed in the world, created and maintained by both amateurs and professionals.[2] It is an international project[3] which provides indexes of around 130,000 Disney comic publications worldwide.[4] It is distributed with its own licence.[5]

I.N.D.U.C.K.S.
World-wide database about Disney comics
Type of site
Comics database
Available inDanish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Ownercollective
Created byHarry Fluks
URLInducks.org
Commercialno
Registrationoptional
Launched1994

Origin

Efforts to catalog Disney comic stories on a large scale date from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among the most important works are an index of Disney comics published in Denmark,[6] a list of stories produced in Italy,[7] a list of American daily strips and Sunday pages,[8] an index of American Dell Disney comics[9] and a Carl Barks index.[10] All these lists include artists and writer credits that were previously unknown.

In August 1992, Per Starbäck (from Sweden) created the Disney Comics Mailing List.[11] Members soon contributed lists of Disney comics and gave references for printed indexes. In May 1994, expanding on information exchanged on the mailing list, Harry Fluks (from the Netherlands) created a database to organize comic indexes, and called it the Disney Comics Database.[12]

In 1999, 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. to resemble acronyms seen in Junior Woodchucks comics.[13] Several meanings have been proposed, including "Internet Database for Uncle Walt's Comics and Stories", "International Network for Disney Universal Comic Knowledge and Sources",[14] up to 2008 when International Network of Disney-Universe Comic Knowers and Sources was selected.[1]

Over the years, a Web search interface was introduced, later replaced by a second search engine, COA,[1][15] in 2001.

Data details

The Inducks database lists publications, stories, characters and creators which are cross-referenced. Each story is given a unique "storycode"[16] so that reprints (often from all over the world) may be found for any story. A large number of Disney comics publications are indexed for the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and United States. Among countries with a significant Disney comics tradition, indexes for Mexico, United Kingdom and (ex-)Yugoslavia are still very incomplete.[17]

Inducks integrates previous studies and research works, with permission of the authors,[18] as well as its own research. Thanks to contacts with creators,[19] it provides credits to anonymous (or wrongly-credited) stories. In particular, most Disney comics were not given credits until the 1980s or 1990s. It also contains information about unpublished Disney comics stories.[20]

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. 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.[21] It has a few other features not part of Inducks, like a collection management system and an error tracker tool.[22]

Use as a source and in publications

Although parts of the database have been published in book form[23] and in specialized journals,[24] Inducks is most often used as a source by comic book historians in articles devoted to Disney comics.[25]

Inducks is also used by Disney editors around the world.[26] It is mentioned as a source by scholars[27] and is referenced in books about comics in general.[28] It has once been criticized for being a catalog of data rather than true (semantic) indexing work.[29]

Inducks sometimes gave talks and held meetings in comic-book fairs in Italy, such as in Lucca in 1997 with Don Rosa and Marco Rota[30] and in Reggio Emilia in 2007[31] and 2008.[32] In 2004, it won an Internet award from afNews, an association of Professional cartoonists in Italy.[33]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c From Inducks lecture held at the 2008 DDF(R) summer meeting in Aalborg, Denmark, July 2008.
  2. ^ Irene De Togni, The Inducks index, editorialized by Disney comics amateurs and professionals: New dynamics, new participatory models, Hybrid. Revue des arts et médiations humaines 8, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4000/hybrid.2145.
  3. ^ As of January 2008, 26 contributors have provided more than 1,000 indexes, see the full list: The Inducks Disney Comics database: Indexers.
  4. ^ As of July 30, 2011, see the statistics at Inducks.
  5. ^ H. Fluks, F. Stajano, Inducks Licence Version 4B 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine (a kind of permissive, "copyleft" "free" licence).
  6. ^ Olsen, Martin (1979–1983), "Det Store Index", Carl Barks & Co., no. 13–15, 17–18, ISSN 0901-3555. (in Danish)
  7. ^ Fossati, Franco (1982), "Disney made in Italy", IF 1 (2a serie) (in Italian).
  8. ^ Becattini, Alberto; Boschi, Luca (1984), La produzione sindacata (1930–1980) (in Italian), Al Fumetto Club.
  9. ^ Becattini, Alberto (1990), Disney Index, Comic Books - Vol. 1 & 2, Al Fumetto Club
  10. ^ Barrier, Michael (1982), Carl Barks and the art of the comic-book, M. Lilien, ISBN 0-9607652-0-4 (published earlier in a shorter form in the fanzine Funnyworld in the 1970s).
  11. ^ Commonly called the DCML.
  12. ^ Interviews of H. Fluks in the fanzines Ankkalinnan Pamaus 2000-02 (in Finnish) (online English version 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine), in DDF(R)appet 5, 2004 (in Danish) and on the Web site of the Danish Donaldist Society 2011-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, 2005.
  13. ^ The word Inducks is a combination of Index and Ducks. Brix Lichtenberg came up with this name as a replacement for the (more boring) name Disney comics Database. He intended it to be an abbreviation (I.N.D.U.C.K.S.) like the ranks in the Junior Woodchuck stories, but we haven't figured out yet what it is supposed to mean ... in Ankkalinnan Pamaus 2000-02 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  14. ^ From the Bolderbast 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine, an Inducks website.
  15. ^ A precise time-frame is as follows (from messages in the Disney comics mailing list): Disney comics indexes were exchanged as early as 1992, e.g., September 11; the first mention of the Disney comics database (DcD) is from April 18, 1994; its first public release is on May 25, 1994; the first mention of a web search program is from March 22, 1995; the first mention of Inducks is from February 9, 1999; the first mention of the COA search engine on the Disney comics mailing list is from April 9, 2001 (see archived copy ).
  16. ^ Details at Inducks 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  17. ^ As of January 2008 - figures from Inducks.
  18. ^ M. Barlotti, , Notiziario della Anonima Fumetti, 1999 (in Italian); a complete list is given at Inducks 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  19. ^ The Brazilian "branch" of Inducks lists about 30 authors who provide information (in Portuguese); see also the biographical notice 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine of comic writer Leonardo Gori (in Italian) or the "book work" 2007-12-22 at the Wayback Machine of archivist and editor David Gerstein.
  20. ^ As of January 2008, about 2,000 shelved stories are listed.
  21. ^ Technical details at Inducks 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine.
  22. ^ Interview with the creator of COA, DDF(R)appet 10, 2007 (in Danish).
  23. ^ A. Becattini, L. Gori, F. Stajano, H. Fluks, Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano, Comic Art, 1997 (in Italian); Giorgio Cavazzano Percorsi, Firenze: Edizioni II Penny, 2002 (in Italian); P. Castagno et al., Luciano Bottaro - Un "gioviale" omaggio (2006), Rodolfo Cimino - Dalla Tana del Bestio all'Angolo dei Salici (2007), Abramo e Giampaolo Barosso Fra logaritmi e fiordalisi (2008), Papersera (in Italian).
  24. ^ Lapoussière, Tristan; Willot, François (2001), "Carl Barks: Bibliographie", Backup (in French), no. 8; Angot, Michel; Willot, François (2000) [1996], "Les belles histoires Walt Disney", Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées (in French), no. 81, 91.
  25. ^ E.g. Stajano, Francesco (1999–2001), "Disney-serier i Italien", NAFS(k)uriren (in Swedish), no. 30–32, ISSN 0282-4493 (revised English version); F. De Salvia, La via Italiana a Topolino 2008-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Rivista di storia e storiografia 5, 2004 (in Italian); T. Lapoussière, Phil DeLara, bibliographie en France et aux États-Unis, Backup 12, 2002 (in French); F. Castanet, Romano Scarpa, Pimpf 13, 2006 (in French); Willot, François (1999), "Giovan Battista Carpi", Le collectionneur de bandes dessinées (in French), no. 89.
  26. ^ See e.g. Mickey Mouse And Friends 287; Roope-setä 2006-02 (in Finnish); I Maestri Disney 20 (in Italian); interview with Sérgio Figueiredo, Abril's Disney editor (in Portuguese); the integral of Floyd Gottfredson published in by editor Glénat (in French).
  27. ^ See e.g. D'Arcangelo, A, Zanettin, F (2004), "Dylan Dog Goes to the USA: a North-American Translation of an Italian Comic Book Series", International Journal of Comic Art, Akadémiai Kiadó, 5 (2): 187, doi:10.1556/Acr.5.2004.2.3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link); Mahrt, N (2008), "A Comic Approach to Politics? Political Education via Comics", Journal of Social Science Education, 7/8 (2/1): 119
  28. ^ J.-P. Gabilliet, Des comics et des hommes: Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats-Unis, 2005, ISBN 2-84274-309-1 (in French); H. Matla, Stripcatalogus (9th ed.), 1998 (in Dutch).
  29. ^ S. Brügger, L. Peyraud, M. Schmid, , study presented to the Haute École de Gestion de Genève, 2002 (in French).
  30. ^ Photos of the events at Inducks.
  31. ^ News report from the fair administration, 2007 (in Italian).
  32. ^ Videos and photographs on the Papersera website (in Italian).
  33. ^ Link at fumetti.org (in Italian).

External links

  • Inducks.
  • Bolderbast, site with general information on Inducks.
  • , the Inducks browser.

February 03, 2023
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The International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources 1 I N D U C K S or Inducks is a freely available database aiming to index all Disney Universe comics ever printed in the world created and maintained by both amateurs and professionals 2 It is an international project 3 which provides indexes of around 130 000 Disney comic publications worldwide 4 It is distributed with its own licence 5 I N D U C K S World wide database about Disney comicsType of siteComics databaseAvailable inDanish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish and Swedish OwnercollectiveCreated byHarry FluksURLInducks orgCommercialnoRegistrationoptionalLaunched1994 Contents 1 Origin 2 Data details 3 Use as a source and in publications 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksOrigin EditEfforts to catalog Disney comic stories on a large scale date from the late 1970s and early 1980s Among the most important works are an index of Disney comics published in Denmark 6 a list of stories produced in Italy 7 a list of American daily strips and Sunday pages 8 an index of American Dell Disney comics 9 and a Carl Barks index 10 All these lists include artists and writer credits that were previously unknown In August 1992 Per Starback from Sweden created the Disney Comics Mailing List 11 Members soon contributed lists of Disney comics and gave references for printed indexes In May 1994 expanding on information exchanged on the mailing list Harry Fluks from the Netherlands created a database to organize comic indexes and called it the Disney Comics Database 12 In 1999 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 to resemble acronyms seen in Junior Woodchucks comics 13 Several meanings have been proposed including Internet Database for Uncle Walt s Comics and Stories International Network for Disney Universal Comic Knowledge and Sources 14 up to 2008 when International Network of Disney Universe Comic Knowers and Sources was selected 1 Over the years a Web search interface was introduced later replaced by a second search engine COA 1 15 in 2001 Data details EditThe Inducks database lists publications stories characters and creators which are cross referenced Each story is given a unique storycode 16 so that reprints often from all over the world may be found for any story A large number of Disney comics publications are indexed for the following countries Australia Brazil Denmark Italy Finland France Germany Greece the Netherlands Norway Poland Spain Sweden and United States Among countries with a significant Disney comics tradition indexes for Mexico United Kingdom and ex Yugoslavia are still very incomplete 17 Inducks integrates previous studies and research works with permission of the authors 18 as well as its own research Thanks to contacts with creators 19 it provides credits to anonymous or wrongly credited stories In particular most Disney comics were not given credits until the 1980s or 1990s It also contains information about unpublished Disney comics stories 20 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 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 21 It has a few other features not part of Inducks like a collection management system and an error tracker tool 22 Use as a source and in publications EditAlthough parts of the database have been published in book form 23 and in specialized journals 24 Inducks is most often used as a source by comic book historians in articles devoted to Disney comics 25 Inducks is also used by Disney editors around the world 26 It is mentioned as a source by scholars 27 and is referenced in books about comics in general 28 It has once been criticized for being a catalog of data rather than true semantic indexing work 29 Inducks sometimes gave talks and held meetings in comic book fairs in Italy such as in Lucca in 1997 with Don Rosa and Marco Rota 30 and in Reggio Emilia in 2007 31 and 2008 32 In 2004 it won an Internet award from afNews an association of Professional cartoonists in Italy 33 See also EditDisney comics Donald Duck universe Donald Duck in comics DonaldismReferences Edit a b c From Inducks lecture held at the 2008 DDF R summer meeting in Aalborg Denmark July 2008 Irene De Togni The Inducks index editorialized by Disney comics amateurs and professionals New dynamics new participatory models Hybrid Revue des arts et mediations humaines 8 2022 https doi org 10 4000 hybrid 2145 As of January 2008 26 contributors have provided more than 1 000 indexes see the full list The Inducks Disney Comics database Indexers As of July 30 2011 see the statistics at Inducks H Fluks F Stajano Inducks Licence Version 4B Archived 2011 07 09 at the Wayback Machine a kind of permissive copyleft free licence Olsen Martin 1979 1983 Det Store Index Carl Barks amp Co no 13 15 17 18 ISSN 0901 3555 in Danish Fossati Franco 1982 Disney made in Italy IF 1 2a serie in Italian Becattini Alberto Boschi Luca 1984 La produzione sindacata 1930 1980 in Italian Al Fumetto Club Becattini Alberto 1990 Disney Index Comic Books Vol 1 amp 2 Al Fumetto Club Barrier Michael 1982 Carl Barks and the art of the comic book M Lilien ISBN 0 9607652 0 4 published earlier in a shorter form in the fanzine Funnyworld in the 1970s Commonly called the DCML Interviews of H Fluks in the fanzines Ankkalinnan Pamaus 2000 02 in Finnish online English version Archived 2011 07 09 at the Wayback Machine in DDF R appet 5 2004 in Danish and on the Web site of the Danish Donaldist Society Archived 2011 05 27 at the Wayback Machine 2005 The word Inducks is a combination of Index and Ducks Brix Lichtenberg came up with this name as a replacement for the more boring name Disney comics Database He intended it to be an abbreviation I N D U C K S like the ranks in the Junior Woodchuck stories but we haven t figured out yet what it is supposed to mean in Ankkalinnan Pamaus 2000 02 Archived 2011 07 09 at the Wayback Machine From the Bolderbast Archived 2008 07 08 at the Wayback Machine an Inducks website A precise time frame is as follows from messages in the Disney comics mailing list Disney comics indexes were exchanged as early as 1992 e g September 11 the first mention of the Disney comics database DcD is from April 18 1994 its first public release is on May 25 1994 the first mention of a web search program is from March 22 1995 the first mention of Inducks is from February 9 1999 the first mention of the COA search engine on the Disney comics mailing list is from April 9 2001 see archived copy here Details at Inducks Archived 2011 07 09 at the Wayback Machine As of January 2008 figures from Inducks M Barlotti Da Fossati al Inducks il progetto I N D U C K S Notiziario della Anonima Fumetti 1999 in Italian a complete list is given at Inducks Archived 2011 07 09 at the Wayback Machine The Brazilian branch of Inducks lists about 30 authors who provide information in Portuguese see also the biographical notice Archived 2011 10 02 at the Wayback Machine of comic writer Leonardo Gori in Italian or the book work Archived 2007 12 22 at the Wayback Machine of archivist and editor David Gerstein As of January 2008 about 2 000 shelved stories are listed Technical details at Inducks Archived 2011 07 11 at the Wayback Machine Interview with the creator of COA DDF R appet 10 2007 in Danish A Becattini L Gori F Stajano H Fluks Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano Comic Art 1997 in Italian Giorgio Cavazzano Percorsi Firenze Edizioni II Penny 2002 in Italian P Castagno et al Luciano Bottaro Un gioviale omaggio 2006 Rodolfo Cimino Dalla Tana del Bestio all Angolo dei Salici 2007 Abramo e Giampaolo Barosso Fra logaritmi e fiordalisi 2008 Papersera in Italian Lapoussiere Tristan Willot Francois 2001 Carl Barks Bibliographie Backup in French no 8 Angot Michel Willot Francois 2000 1996 Les belles histoires Walt Disney Le collectionneur de bandes dessinees in French no 81 91 E g Stajano Francesco 1999 2001 Disney serier i Italien NAFS k uriren in Swedish no 30 32 ISSN 0282 4493 revised English version F De Salvia La via Italiana a Topolino Archived 2008 06 26 at the Wayback Machine Rivista di storia e storiografia 5 2004 in Italian T Lapoussiere Phil DeLara bibliographie en France et aux Etats Unis Backup 12 2002 in French F Castanet Romano Scarpa Pimpf 13 2006 in French Willot Francois 1999 Giovan Battista Carpi Le collectionneur de bandes dessinees in French no 89 See e g Mickey Mouse And Friends 287 Roope seta 2006 02 in Finnish I Maestri Disney 20 in Italian interview with Sergio Figueiredo Abril s Disney editor in Portuguese the integral of Floyd Gottfredson published in by editor Glenat in French See e g D Arcangelo A Zanettin F 2004 Dylan Dog Goes to the USA a North American Translation of an Italian Comic Book Series International Journal of Comic Art Akademiai Kiado 5 2 187 doi 10 1556 Acr 5 2004 2 3 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Mahrt N 2008 A Comic Approach to Politics Political Education via Comics Journal of Social Science Education 7 8 2 1 119 J P Gabilliet Des comics et des hommes Histoire culturelle des comic books aux Etats Unis 2005 ISBN 2 84274 309 1 in French H Matla Stripcatalogus 9th ed 1998 in Dutch S Brugger L Peyraud M Schmid Les images ne sont pas des mots study presented to the Haute Ecole de Gestion de Geneve 2002 in French Photos of the events at Inducks News report from the fair administration 2007 in Italian Videos and photographs on the Papersera website in Italian Link at fumetti org in Italian External links EditInducks Bolderbast site with general information on 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