Re: AIS Bulletin Archive

[John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

Thanks Bob,

I am in the process of drafting a final letter to the Foundation Board thanking them and summarizing the "completed" status. I am proud of the job we got done and could never have gotten it done without the Foundation's help. 

Thanks

John
On Jul 22, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Robert Hollingworth wrote:

> Great job John - that's one of the Foundation's best projects. By the way did
> anything ever come of the idea to develop an AIS video for the web site? That
> seemed like a good idea too.  Bob Hollingworth
> 
> Bob and Judy Hollingworth
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/21/12, John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com> wrote:
> 
> From: John Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>
> Subject: [AISdiscuss] AIS Bulletin Archive
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Date: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 2:21 AM
> 
> 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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