RE: Catalog Scanning Project

[cheryl deaton <c95039e11@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

Bob,
My sympathy goes out to you and your wife on her mother's passing.
Cheryl Deaton

> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:31:27 -0400
> To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
> Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Catalog Scanning Project
> From: 101p@rewrite.aisboard.org
>
> 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.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  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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