Re: Catalog Scanning Project

[Robert Hollingworth <113bb8961@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Hi John - In light of Bob Priess' e-mail, I'll hold off on sending your proposal to the Foundation until the situation is clarified. Would be pleasant one day to have an issue in AIS that didn't end in controversy. Bob

 
Bob and Judy Hollingworth




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 From: John Jones <100h@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org 
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 12:14 AM
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Catalog Scanning Project
 

Over the years Mike and Anne Lowe collected a large repository of old iris catalogs. The collection includes all the Schreiner and Cooley catalogs, Muhlestein, Plough, Whiting and many others.

Anne has agreed to donate the collection in Mike's honor (about 10 banker's boxes) to a project for AIS to
non-destructively scan, OCR and convert to a searchable PDF all the catalogs much as I did for the collection
 of AIS Bulletins.

To that end I have made a Grant Request to the AIS Foundation to fund the project. 

Once the project is completed the AIS Board can decide whether the files should be made part of the AIS Electronic Membership, or made available to the General public or...

I will keep you all informed when I hear from the foundation.

Thanks

John
AIS Registrar/Recorder
Chair AIS Electronic Services

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