Re: AIS Bulletin Archive

[don.rude@comcast.net]

A video on the website is a good idea. 
Don Rude 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hollingworth" <cyberiris@att.net> 
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 8:36:02 PM 
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] AIS Bulletin Archive 

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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