[CBQ] RE: [BRHSlist] Re: Access to Q printed data via BRHS

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

I wasn’t covering the making of print publications in electronic format….which I would pay for, just as the MR and other digital versions of other publications that I have…..but it would require more than just scanning as part of the value of digitized versions is the search function which doesn’t come automatically.

I would not charge for raw data (digitized drawings, scans of letters, etc..).   If cost of doing the work becomes an issue there are other avenues  to explore (getting a grant from the BNSF, for example, who have funded such efforts in the past notably with the Linda Hall Library).

Charging for society publications, both former and future, is fair because there is original work involved, not just copies of historical documents.

Charlie Vlk

 

 

From: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Bristow
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 4:02 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] Re: Access to Q printed data via BRHS

 

 

Here here Charlie, the electronic world is here to stay and groups needs to embrace it.

Personally I would be happy to pay for electronic downloads - how about $10 for a scan of the operating data sheets that have sold out?

I would pay for other stuff too too.

Thanks for working on the next Bulletin. Always a great read.

Mark
Didcot
UK

--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
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> Since Nelson invoked my name I will weigh in on the discussion even though I
> shouldn't take the time to do so as I am working on Burlington Bulletin #50
> as we speak (about halfway done). I am also copying this to the CBQ yahoo
> list as not all are on both lists.
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> It is critical that we move the BRHS into the electronic age. A valued
> sizeable percentage of our membership ...former CB&Q employees... will not
> be able to be replaced as they pass on. We will have to attract Modelers
> and Railroad Historians to make up their numbers. To attract more people
> we need to make the history of the Burlington Route accessible to as wide an
> audience as possible. If we do that well membership in the BRHS will grow.
> If we do not we will surely wither away and much of the history will die
> with those holding it.
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> Charlie Vlk
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