Re: [AGA SC] TAG saved?

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> I have a full set, though the first year is a "reprint"
> that Neil did.  
> 
> I have it all in electronic form as well (see the website
> for just the 
> indices and contents).  I do think I want to rescan it
> someday, because 
> when I did the first scan I lost all the full-size
> originals in a disk 
> crash before I got them archived.
> 
> The other thing I'm sort of waiting on is trying to
> reproduce a subject 
> index.  Neil and Diana used to create these, and I got
> about halfway 
> through the grueling process on the full black & white
> archive when I 
> tabled it for a bit.  The problem is, of course, that a
> subject index is, 
> uh, subjective!  It's incredibly hard to keep the
> classification schema in 
> one's head all at once.  Someday I will complete this or
> connive someone 
> else into.

I'm not connivable. We have a historian; maybe we need a
libarian instead.

Is it not possible to mark all the relevenat subjects in
each article and then let a program create an index,
sweeping for the listings? No schema to remember, you just
plot it once for the program. There must be index
generators around -- you see them in the word processors.


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