<VV> Who will do it? :)

[Bryan Blackwell]

Regarding format - it depends a little on the intent.  PDFs are great  
if the goal is to replicate the "feel" of the original.  However,  
there are two ways I can see to do that.

First - the hard way - would be to OCR all the text, scan the images,  
then lay out the magazines as they were.  This would allow both for  
searching and browsing.

Second would be to image scan them one page per image and put all the  
images into a PDF, one per issue.  While they would look just like the  
originals, you'd need a separate reference to find things.

The third way to capture them wouldn't look much like the original  
magazines, but would offer the most utility to someone looking for  
something with no reference.  That would be to OCR scan the text,  
image scan the pictures, then load each issue into a Wiki, perhaps  
organized by issue.  Problem is you can't just print out a copy that  
looks like the original, but it would be fully searchable, so if you  
want to find all the references to Smitty, it would be easy.  Another  
advantage to a Wiki is that many people can edit, so other folks could  
add comments at the bottom, make corrections, etc.  This is what I was  
suggesting.

--Bryan

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:14 AM, Bruce Schug wrote:

> I'll scan some of the CORSA publications. As I mentioned, I have all
> of them except for the first one after the Preliminaries. I can go
> them in any format but suggest PDF's as probably the one to use.