RE: Good News-Bulletin Scanning Project

["Kelly D. Norris" <kellydn@frontiernet.net>]

Just catching up on emails today and wanted to know the reasoning behind OCR
conversion.  Many botanical gardens and publishers of academic journals
offer their annals as indexed, searchable, PDFs rather than as text
documents.  I'm just curious about the justification for the addition of
that step.

A dusting of snow fell this morning, akin to powdered sugar on a donut, but
hardly as sweet.
--kdn

Horticulturally,
 
Kelly D. Norris
Farm Manager, Rainbow Iris Farm
Editor, Irises: The Bulletin of the American Iris Society
Bedford & Ames, IA 
Zone 4b/5a
Read my blog at: http://www.kellydnorris.com
Check out my bookazine at:  http://www.digthismag.com


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From: owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org [mailto:owner-aisdiscuss@aisboard.org]
On Behalf Of John I Jones
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:12 PM
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Good News-Bulletin Scanning Project

Susan, et. alia

AIS Bulletin Scanning Project

The AIS Foundation has funded a project to convert our past bulletin issues
into electronic, searchable documents. Our bulletins will be scanned in
color and greyscale, converted to text (Optical Character Recognition), made
into a PDF and indexed. They will be made available online and at the AIS
Library (and perhaps a few other library locations)

When the scanning company prepares the documents for scanning, they will cut
them apart by trimming off the binding edge or cutting them along the fold
(called destructive scanning although the pages themselves are not
destroyed). There is an option to NOT have them cut apart but it is
significantly more expensive and we do not have the budget to have them all
done that way. Certainly those bulletins with very limited availability will
be non-destructively scanned.

In the attached PDF is a list of AIS Bulletins that I do not have in my
collection that are needed for the bulletin scanning project. If you have
any of the issues that are listed and are willing to donate them to the
project, please email me at jijones@usjoneses.com with the issue number. I
will send you shipping instructions. I am also going to check with the AIS
Library to see what issues they can supply.

The biggest impediment to getting the project completed is the lack of these
bulletins. I will get everything started with the bulleting I have in my
collection (about 150 out of approx 300 not counting the ones we have
electronically), and I will get the process started with them very shortly.

Please review the list and let me know what issues you would be willing to
donate. Your issues can be returned to you afterwards if you wish


Thank you

John I Jones
Chair, AIS Electronic Services Committee

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