Re: AIS Bulletin Archive

[andi rivarola <andinsky@gmail.com>]

Awesome accomplishment John. Glad to have it available for all our
E-members. Great incentive to publicize.

Andi Rivarola


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:21 PM, John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com> wrote:

> 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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