Re: AIS Website

[John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:39 PM, MORRISJE1@aol.com wrote:

> Wow!  Thanks for this information.  Now if we just had something   
> like this
> for all our past AIS Bulletins.  The indexes are of some use but   
> are very
> incomplete, dependent as they were on the individual data input   
> person and their
> interpretation of what constituted an "article."  Many,  many  
> "articles" were
> not in the Bulletin Table of Contents.  I do a lot of  historical  
> writing and
> don't have all the past AIS Bulletins.  Therefore, I  frequently  
> ask the AIS
> Librarian to research items for me out of the  basement.  Sometimes  
> it takes
> two or three tries to get what should be  there somewhere.  Past  
> complete
> official AIS Minutes (not edited or  abridged versions usually in  
> the Bulletins) and
> Committee Reports are  problematic at best, completely missing at  
> worst.
> Most people probably  don't care, but as historical references they  
> have some
> importance to some of  us.

The problem is not having an engine that can create indexes or search  
pages and pages of information. The problem is getting all that  
printed material into digital format. At one time I scanned and  
converted the 1989 and 1979 Check Lists into digital form. Not an  
easy task and rife with errors. Sure there is the Google Book  
project, but they have resources we don't have. I did find a place  
that will scan books. $50 for the first 50 pages and $.35 per page  
after that. (I did not investigate exactly what you get back).

If someone has a suggestion on an alternate way to go, I think it  
would be invaluable. I have a set of bulletins from the Storefront  
that is not complete but extensive as a source.

John

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