Re: TAG archives

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Hadn't thought of it.  From a technical side, the heck with OCR... the AGA
put out the magazines, the AGA (presumably) has the original source to
everything.  A quick translation to HTML, and there you go.

However, in thinking about it for a minute, I suspect there would be
problems with some of the articles because of the arrangements with the
authors.  For instance, reprints from Dupla or Christel Kassleman's
articles.  I suspect they would not take kindly to having their works
redistributed on a CD-ROM.  The very nature of the beast (that it's easily
copyable) turns off some people.

     - Erik

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> Morning Erik,
> 
> This is unrelated to the AGA contest, but has any thought ever been given to
> placing the back issues of TAG onto CD-ROM (it could be done in both plain
> text and Adobe PDF format) and making it available for sale to AGA members
> (non-members might be interested to, at a higher price). The individual
> issues could be scanned, run thru a OCR program, edited for correctness, and
> then archived. If anyone had concerns about it depressing interest in people
> joining the AGA it could be limited to issues more than 2 years old.
> 
> Just wondering....
> 
> James Purchase
> Toronto
> 

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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