Re: HYB:AIS:Checklist

The following comments are from John Jones explaining why including images on any possible Electronic Checklist CD-rom is a bad idea:

John Jones writes: 

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"Well that would definitely make the files bigger. My personal opinion... Until video technology provides a good way to calibrate the various monitors so that a picture looks the same way on evryone, pictures are not a good idea, thought it has been in my mind since the beginning of the project. (soap box time)

There are multiple problems with pictures:

Taking the picture (with either a conventional camera and scanning it, or with a digital camera):

--Exposures can be way off (shadows, time of day type of light) Different films impart different hues etc 
--Digitizing has its own color accuracy issues, and each scanner is different.
--Level of compression injects some inaccuracy
--Every monitor is different (unless you have *very* expensive ones) I have two identical 21 inch color monitors that I use for work (and play). Because I have two different interfaces, pictures look very different on each of them. True that could be mitigated, but I would still have to calibrate them to a standard.

The problem is that too many folks want to look at a picture on a screen and compare it (by memory most often) to a bloom they saw in their
garden (minutes, hours, weeks ago) and say "Oh that must be Frazzeled Glory" (or something). 

Not a good idea (unless of course you have a limited list of names it might be and they are all significantly differentiated)

(end of soap box)"
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I thought we defeated communism in this Country but I see it is alive and well within AIS when John Jones writes, "Until video technology provides a good way to calibrate the various monitors so that a picture looks the same way on evryone, pictures are not a good idea,..."  Why does everyone have to have the exact same quality of image on their computer monitor?  If this is your standard, then it will be impossible to achieve and you should turn the project over to someone who will put a CD in the hands of the AIS membership this century.

Of course, first you need an Electronic Checklist CD-rom, then you can provide pictures.  Since you are now discussing pictures on a CD-rom, do you have a realistic date for delivery of the initial product?

This post is supposed to be about your picture comments...sorry for my drifting.

I do not understand your arguments about the images.  Size of the images is really unimportant unless they are are to be used on the web and if so then compressed high quality, sharp images are very possible using a simple graphics program like Macromedia Fireworks to prepare them.  A self contained program for viewing the database could be loaded onto the user's harddrive and then the image library could be accessed from one of more CD's that contain only the images.  This really isn't a problem and can be done with quite a few programs such as Visual Basic, Access, FoxPro or even with some of the really high end programming languages.  I bet if you were to explore contracting the services for AIS then you would be surprised by some of the low bids you would receive and how soon it could be accomplished.  There are people right on Iris Talk and many more within AIS that are more than capable and willing to do a worthwhile project if it is planned appropriately.  The notion of recovering the cost for printed books before even releasing the CD product should not even be a consideration.  

The longer AIS waits to enter the digital and electronic arena, the longer a disservice is being done to the AIS membership because these are all commonalities in today's world.

Respectfully,

Bobby Baxter
Wake Forest, NC


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