Re: Iris Catalog Library

[Wayne Messer <6d200f2f1@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

That's great that we have so many catalogs!

On the website question, is there some way to use the Wayback Machine for
Jill's suggestion?  You can force the Wayback Machine to save a copy of
parts.  Depending on various technicalities, you can have it save a copy
with the subpages.  You can learn more about ways to do it here:

https://blog.archive.org/2017/01/25/see-something-save-something/

As an example of what may be possible, here is Bearded A-C from the current
Schreiner's run through that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170227174715/https://www.schreinersgardens.com/a-c

If you go to the bottom of that page, there are links to 6 more pages of
the A-C beardeds that come from the Wayback Machine. I only had to ask it
to save the original A-C page.  They are HTML, not PDF; however, they are
saved and could then be processed further.  And it is certainly possible I
could have started higher up in Schreiners menu.

Wayne Messer




On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Jill Bonino <7115fb371@rewrite.aisboard.org
> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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