Re: Catalog Scanning Project

I regret that I will be unable to participate in any discussion for the next 4 days since I will be traveling to St. Louis for my mother-in-lawbs funeral. I plan to leave tomorrow morning. So I am presenting some information in the following statement.

Work on the digitalization of catalogs and their display has been ongoing for some time. There are already 62 catalogs visible on or through the Encyclopedia. I have not been pointing to these except for the benefit of other wiki workers because there is an incredible amount of work still to be done. The structure, organization, and formatting are still in flux.

If one is familiar with Wikipedia, than one should have a clear idea of the Encyclopediabs potential. For example I envision a time when one could go to a cultivar entry and not just find many images but many of the particulars of the description would be linked to further information. For example one will be able to click on the hybridizerbs name and get a short biography, a list of registrations and introductions, and a list of awards they and their irises have won. One would also be able to click on the parents and view their pages and ultimately a pedigree displayed for each cultivar along with a gallery of offspring. And the Nursery of introduction in the entry could be clicked on and see the page of the catalog where the introduction was announced. And lastly a list of references given that could be clicked on to provide more information about the cultivar. 

While there has already been a huge beginning there is still much more work yet to be accomplished. It would be a shame to pay for what is already available. Whether one chooses to pay others to have additional work done is something that needs to be decided. There are also issues of copyright. I have already received that permission from Cooleybs and Schreinersb and have been proceeding slowly hoping to finish those two to show as an example before really campaigning for all material to be available. Of course older material does not require permission. 

I have tried to explain my dream for the Encyclopedia many times before, as an encyclopedic resource of Iris information. It seems to me that it would be so much easier for people to be able to find information about an iris topic in one place and be able to use the body of Iris literature to create a synthesis of current and historic thought for new articles. When I wrote the SIGNA checklist I had a bibliography of 1,100 references that I drew upon. It always seemed sad that there was no search that could provide a thorough literature review of Iris resources. I hope to someday see that with the Iris Encyclopedia. bBob Pries.


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From: "Robert Hollingworth" <113bb8961@rewrite.aisboard.org>
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 9:21:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Catalog Scanning Project

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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