Hi All! It’s my first update since I started working on the Bakugan Library, and since the basic structure is already up, I thought I’d record a snapshot of how it currently looks like
What is the Bakugan Library?
In essence, the Bakugan Library is a way for me to record my Bakugan Collection, together with it’s peripherals. I’ve been collecting Bakugan for a while, and the quantity has reached a point, whereby the previous system of recording is not working as well as expected.
And there are times when I have to dig really hard to find some information, e.g. whether I had previously gotten a variant of some Bakugan. Thus there is a need to properly document down all my current Bakugan.
So here the idea of the Bakugan Library is born!!!
Status so far…
As I mentioned earlier, the main structure of the library is up. There are now a few main sections
- Bakugan – Information containing the actual Bakugan
- Bakugan Series – Which Series the Bakugan belong to
- Bakugan Packs – Which Packs the Bakugan belong to
- Bakugan Attributes – Which Faction / Attribute / Clan, etc the Bakugan belong to
- Factory Information – Including all the manufacturing codes and a simple timeline of production of each Bakugan
- BakuCore – List of existing BakuCores
- etc…
Menu
Click on the menu “BAKUGAN LIBRARY” on top will show the following options above. Each of these list a different set of information as indicated by the name
On the front page, it shows the (real-time) statistics of the information in the library. Currently I have added Pyrus and Ventus information for Battle Planet, which took a pretty long time, to be honest.
Clicking on “Bakugan List” will display all current Bakugan stored, sorted by their code name (which I’m storing as <Generation>_<Series>_<Attribute>_<BakuganName>_<Distributor>, e.g. G2_S1_PYRUS_WEBAM_SM.
Clicking on the Bakugan will bring you to its page information. So far, I’m only recording the following information:
- Bakugan Code – my own code to organize the data
- Bakugan Name – after working on this, it seems to be a bit clunky. Might need to rework this into a better format for organization purpose
- B Power – as what the name states
- Manufacturing Code – that date stamp on all officially released Bakugan
- Series – which series it’s from
- Attribute – pyrus, darkus, haos, etc… with the new G3 Bakugan, will probably include the Dragon, Aquatic, etc once the names are finalized
- Distributor – which company distributes it. In legacy, it was quite diverse, but in the current era, from Geogan Rising onwards, I think it’s only Spin Master
- Bakugan Pack – which pack the Bakugan is from (still a work in progress, as I have to populate the Bakugan information first)
- Bakugan with same mold – basically Bakugan have a fixed mold which is shared between attributes / series, e.g. Nillious from Geogan Rising, is re-used in Evolutions, so it is basically the same mold, and I would like to display all these at a simple glance to identify the variants
- Related Youtube Video – my youtube video of the Bakugan / Package unboxing (if any) – please support!!! Thanks!
Oh yes, as much as possible, I’ve tried to add a simple search to each of the listings. The searching for the Bakugan page is by the name of the Bakugan, so for example, you can type “Webam” and all webam entries will appear. It works roughly the same way for all the listing pages.
Master Data
In all datasets, there is always the concept of Master Data, which is data is used to provide context for the transactional data. In this case, it’s a fine line between Master and Transactional data since I’m not performing any transactions, and everything can be considered Master Data. Anyway, I’m just using the term to refer to the information like “Bakugan Series, Attributes, etc” that contextualizes the rest of the information
The Attributes information…
And the Series information… clicking on them will pull up information on them. One thing I really wanted was to link everything together, so for example, clicking on a particular Series, will pull up all Bakugan belong to that series.
Consolidation of Mfg Codes
For all Bakugan, I’m also taking the effort to record each and every one of their manufacturing code (for a lack of a better term). This is the date stamp that is on every officially released Bakugan. For the list page, due to technical limitation of the plugin, I can’t seem to find a way to sort the codes in the month, without using some convoluted solution, so I’m just going to leave it as it is for now.
In the meantime, since I have the data recorded, I made sort of a calendar page to list down all Bakugan made on sorted by the mfg code. So basically it shows when each Bakugan is made. Of course, this is only limited to the Bakugan I own, so it’s hardly complete, but it shows a nice overview of when each Bakugan was made.
BakuCores
I just finished updating the BakuCores information, and boy did it take a long time. From taking pictures, to going through every single core, together with categorizing the type. But I think the effort will be worth it in the end, since all the cores are to be used somehow.
At the backend, I’ve recorded the actually statistics of each core as structured data. So eventually (fingers-crossed), I can use it somehow in the (very very distant future) when I start working on recording the TCG data. That’s only after I complete recording the Bakugan information
Conclusion?
It’s still much a work in progress, less than 1% of the data has been captured, and lots of work still need to be done. I just wanted to record this down, so that I can compare it again in the future.
Thanks for reading!!!
See you in the next post. Bye!!!
