Re[2]: index AFJ

Hello Wim,

  I would be willing to help out with such a project.  I would also be
  willing to bet that the fern society would make copies of those
  journals available for such a project, although I can not speak for
  the society.  Keep in touch about this idea.

-- 
Best regards,
 Mike                         


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Thursday, July 10, 2003, 4:04:45 AM, you wrote:

WWd> Mike,

WWd> Yes, I feel the desire to build such an index, but the answer is not defenitely affirmative yet. I will start out with a pilot to determine how easily the printed index can be converted to
WWd> ascii, and the ascii to a database. This largely depends on how the OCR-software deals with the type-face used. 

WWd> The most work will probably be the manual correction of the ascii representation of a volume's index. The scanning and correcting could be easily divided over volunteers. Everyone one volume
WWd> won't take much more than two hours each. The conversion into a database will be my job, then.   

WWd> John Scott reports about a literature database of his, at least partly based on the AFJ. With a bit of luck, we could use this as a start. I will contact John about this.

WWd> As to help of the AFS, I do hardly foresee any cost in such a project. I do not, however, have access to all volumes, only from 1949 on with a few missing. Also, the AFS should be willing to
WWd> integrate the resulting index on the website.

WWd> regards, 


WWd> Wim de Winter

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WWd> -----Original Message-----
WWd> From: Mike Barker [b*@muohio.edu]
WWd> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 20:02 
WWd> To: ferns@hort.net
WWd> Subject: Re[2]: [ferns] index AFJ


WWd> Hello Wim,

WWd>   Are you interested in building an electronic index to AFJ yourself
WWd>   then?  If this is the case, then maybe you could seek formal support
WWd>   for the project (probably not monetary, but volunteer power) from
WWd>   the American Fern Society.  If you could divide the labor up among
WWd>   other members it would probably be a lot faster.  I would be
WWd>   interested in helping with such a project.

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