<VV> Who will do it? :)

[Jamie & Tanya Reinhart]

All, I know for a fact I am not the first one to propose this idea, but I am 
the one who proposed it today. Therefore I would like to head this project, 
if I can get all the ducks in a row. Myself and two or three others have 
volunteered to scan the information. But I will need to decide what format 
to scan it in and other pertinate details before we start this project. 
Harry has told me there is about the last ten years already stored 
electronically so that will take some of the burden off. We will need to 
decide how far back to go. Just the communiques? The CORSA Quarterlies? The 
Windmills? And we will have to find someone or someones willing to loan 
their collection out to be scanned. That's all for now.

Jamie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Blackwell" <bryan at skiblack.com>
To: "Secular" <rusecular at yahoo.com>
Cc: "VirtualVairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Who will do it? :)


> Well, there you go, someone who'll do part of it.  I forgot about that
> post.
>
> Now, not to pick on Tony (really):
>
> He's volunteering to be part of the team.  What we need is exactly
> *one* person to drive the project.  We often complain in the US about
> too much management, but there is a need for one person to be the
> project manager, which roughly means the rest of the team hates you
> until the project is complete.  If it looks good when done they think
> you're great, and if it doesn't they keep on hating you (not entirely
> a joke here).  I think in this particular case there is such a person,
> but I'll let him post for himself ;-)
>
> My suggestion would be that an OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
> scan is the way to go, that way the text is searchable.  Having images
> of each page is somewhat useful, but searching is limited to whatever
> tagging gets done.  Text, OTOH, can be indexed and searched however
> you like.  I know some scanners ship with OCR software, but be aware
> that it likely will require cleanup.  Off the cuff, I'd guess scanning
> the photos at 600 DPI would be good, but what would be better would be
> to do a couple test scans and put them up and see what looks good,
> then use that.  Although kind of ugly, the simple way to store it all
> would be in a Wiki.
>
> Now, if the preceding paragraph doesn't mean much, none of it is more
> complicated than a Rochester HV :-)
>
> Oh, yeah, this should be in the members section.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Dec 4, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Secular wrote:
>
>> For those you who are not aware of the VV archives, I present this
>> post:
>>
>> http://www.vv.corvair.org/pipermail/virtualvairs/2009-February/082423.html
>>
>> I know, it's quite vague and my post then, does not address the
>> question:
>>
>>>> Who will do it ;-)
>>
>
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