Re: Iris Catalog Library

[Jill Bonino <7115fb371@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

I am not a techno person but could we put the website catalogs in the "cloud" without all of the conversion/download time. Perhaps a part o the aIS Library should be "cloud" storage for some archive records?  Maybe we are already doing this?  Jill

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> On Feb 23, 2017, at 7:46 AM, Robert Pries <101p@rewrite.aisboard.org> wrote:
> 
> I have some good news and some bad news!
> 
> First the good news. The Online catalog library now has over 900 catalogs.
> Thanks to several people who have sent catalogs we have a decent collection
> online but there are probably 3 times as many missing still. I still have
> catalogs on hand that have not been scanned but I worry that with each day
> some of this history is lost and would appreciate the help of members that may
> know of collections that can be scanned.
> 
> Now the bad news. Today there are many catalogs that are only on websites.
> There are no paper copies to be preserved for posterity. Fortunately a very
> few nurseries put a catalog in a pdf format on their websites as does Tempo
> Two Nursery. These are easily saved. But most online catalogs are really the
> website themselves. These are more difficult. I have the latest version of
> Adobe Acrobat and it allows me to convert a website into a pdf. At least in
> theory. Unfortunately to capture the whole website it takes a lot of memory
> and it takes a long time to copy. I have had situations where the Acrobat
> program worked overnight copying and in the morning was still not finished.
> One site took 24 hours to complete and was over 500,000 KB. Others stopped
> working at 150,000 KB and 8 hours of work. I try to maximize the process by
> staying off the computer while Acrobat copies but that means little else gets
> done. While still possible to make copies it is often so difficult and time
> consuming they do not get done. For this reason I am concerned that we will be
> losing our current history. For that matter many of the online catalogs from
> years past are already gone with no record. I am throwing this out to discuss
> to see if anyone has some ideas that may help.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Bob Pries
> Zone 7a
> Roxboro, NC
> (336)597-8805
> 
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