I voted for the CD option, but I did so with some misgiving, and I
certainly can understand Rich's hesitancy. Burning everything onto CDs
might undercut the market for traditional reprints, and I'm not sure
whether I'd prefer to have a copy on paper or in digital format (that's not
a euphemism; I mean it literally: I'm not sure. No doubt others on the list
have very strong preferences one way or the other). On the other hand,
burning CDs has to be a lot cheaper than conventional reprinting and once
archived in digital format they need never go out of print -- though it
might be necessary to re-save or even re-scan them as software is updated.
So the CD strategy might help keep some of the less popular Bulletins
accessible. And it might help the Society conserve scarce resrouces.
Clearly a lot for the board to consider.
Jonathan
From: rgortowski@a...
Date: Tue Feb 12, 2002 6:15 pm
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin Question
In a message dated
2/12/02 3:38:47 AM
Central Standard Time,
peke@b... writes:
> Not knowing the physical state of the archive. Is it possible to scan
> the back copies and then publish (sell) the issue on CD-ROM.
>
> Unless you are very lucky it would probably mean that you would have to
> store each page as an image rather than
OCRing the text.
>
> However, these days, we can all view and print an image, so no problems
> at our end. The CD's could be "printed" on demand and there wouldn't be
> a storage problem and the archival problem is also solved..
This is an interesting thought, but it is one that raises many questions as
well. This is a topic that we will be looking at in the near future.
Something of this magnitude needs to be carefully considered.
Rich Gortowski
President - BRHS
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