RE: AIS Bulletin Archive

["Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>]

Bravo!   Well Done, John!

Thank you AIS Foundation!

Janet

---- Original Message ----
From: jijones@usjoneses.com
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: [AISdiscuss] AIS Bulletin Archive
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:21:57 -0700

>Last year we embarked on a project, graciously funded by the AIS
>Foundation, to collect copies of every AIS Bulletin available from
>the fires issue in 1920 through 2009, and have them scanned and
>rendered into text in searchable PDF files.
>
>That project, a dream of mine as Electronic Services Chair for as
>many years as I was driving the development of the online iris
>registration database, is now complete. At the Spring 2012 Board
>meeting the AIS Board directed that the archive be made available to
>AIS Emembers. 
>
>Today I am proud to announce that the file of scanned bulletins is
>now available via the Emembers page on the AIS website. 
>
>A copy of the archive has also been sent to the AIS Librarian for his
>use in researching questions posed to him.
>
>Please note that while the conversion to searchable text is good,
>there are unavoidable mistakes in the character recognition process.
>The view you see on the pdf page is the scanned picture and extremely
>readable. When you copy the text you will see the errors resulting
>from the character recognition problems.
>
>I want to take this opportunity to again thank the AIS Foundation for
>funding this project.
>_____________________________ 
>John Jones
>Director, American Iris Society
>Chair, Electronic Services Committee
>Co-Registrar/Recorder
>
>
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