Re: Online Library report


Scarlett: I am not proficient at using my smart phone so I can not answer that question. Perhaps someone who is good at using smart phones could tell us and try it out. Sounds like a great idea if it works.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scarlett Ayres" <834ee84d1@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 7:53:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Online Library report

I know that smart phones have a scannable AP.  You can scan to a  pdf.  It 
is not perfect.  It requires good lighting, steady  hand.  Can people be 
trained how to use their smart phone  effectively?  Tripods point downward with 
a light bulb?
 
Scarlett
 
 
In a message dated 8/23/2017 11:06:34 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
101p@rewrite.aisboard.org writes:

A few  days ago, we reached another benchmark of 2,000 articles, journals  
and
catalogs in the Hager/Dubose online library. Before we pat ourselves on  the
back I will note that the Daffodil Society has over 3,000 entries in  their
online library. bDaffodilsb is a much smaller topic than Iris.  We
presently have 1,354 catalogs as part of that 2,000. I project that if  we 
were
to cover the topic of Iris well there will be over 6,000 catalogs  in the
online catalog library. Presently I have been able to add about  500-600
catalogs a year. This means if things remain the same it will be  ten years
before we have a comprehensive online library. I am not sure I  will be 
here in
ten years. So I am looking for ways to improve this  process.

A great boon to us has been the Biodiversity Heritage Library.  Each week 
that
consortium of libraries puts up about 1,000 new journals,  catalogs, etc. Of
those I general discover about 10 catalogs that are  important for iris. The
USDA is a big contributor of catalogs, but they  tend not to have the 
overseas
catalogs. That means the surge in Iris  growing that occurred in France, 
Great
Britain, etc. between 1840 and 1920  is poorly documented. We are left with 
a
very few Iris specialist who  generally also were general nurseries. The 
USDA
seems to be uploading  catalogs of around 1926 and 1927 currently. These
contain a wealth of Iris  nurseries. So suddenly years like 1926 are
represented by 60-70 catalogs.  It seems it takes a month or two for the 
USDA
to get through one year. As  nice as it is to get these, it may take ten 
years
to get through the  twentieth century. B  B 

Finding catalogs is important to do  immediately. Each year many of our 
members
die or go into nursing homes.  The Iris literature they have collected goes
into the dumpster. It is  critical that we have an organized effort to find 
and
save this information  NOW.

My dream for the library is that it becomes the primary research  area for
Iris. Presently it functions for some research. But no one knows  what is in
the physical library. The online version is searchable a number  of ways. 
But
as I have pointed out is far from complete. I have prepared a  word document
snapshot to show what catalogs we have online. It is  downloadable  at
http://wiki.irises.org/Hist/InvetorySnapshotOfCatologsByNursery# I  would
appreciate all the help I can get in adding catalogs to the online  library.

How could we go about improving this scenario. We have paid  for scanning of
catalogs in the past. At 80+ cents a page it would have  cost thousands for
just the scanning I have done personally. It is much  less expensive to draw
from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. But it will  be a long wait for more
recent or foreign catalogs. B  Scanning is  very time consuming and 
tedious. I
sometimes feel good if I can finish one  of the 80 page catalogs in a day, 
and
I am amazed that someone would do  that work for $70. I hate the thought of
paying for work if we can find  volunteers. But volunteers require the 
tools. I
pay $20 a month for Adobe  Acrobat so I can create a searchable pdf. 
Scanners
run around $500. So  essentially it costs $700 to set a volunteer up to scan
catalogs. If a  volunteer could scan 3 catalogs a week it might be a good 
deal.
Perhaps  there are members who already have scanners but would commit to do
fifty  catalogs over a year if we paid for their Adobe  Acrobat.


--

Bob Pries
Zone 7a
Roxboro,  NC
(336)597-8805

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To  sign-off this list, send email to the AIS  Secretary
<aissecretary@irises.org>
The archives for AISDiscuss  are  at:
http://www.aisboard.org/lists/aisdiscuss/

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to the AIS Secretary
<aissecretary@irises.org>
The archives for AISDiscuss are at:
http://www.aisboard.org/lists/aisdiscuss/

-- 
Bob Pries
Zone 7a
Roxboro, NC
(336)597-8805

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to the AIS Secretary
<aissecretary@irises.org>
The archives for AISDiscuss are at:
http://www.aisboard.org/lists/aisdiscuss/



Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index