25 May
2010
25 May
'10
7:35 a.m.
On 5/24/10 8:54 PM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
Dear Al,
Since I have limited access to the machine that bitsavers is hosted on,
it would have to be somewhere else. I also don't have the cycles to maintain
a bunch of individual accounts for uploaders. The handful of people who send
me things generally just do it via email, but dealing with it in a timely
manner as well as checking the quality of submissions is problematic.
I was thinking about the statistics this morning, and less than 1% of the
contents of bitsavers has come from external donations.
If Richard feels like picking this up as a project, that's fine with me, but
I can't deal with this right now.
Of more use would be getting people involved who would like to help with the
postprocessing backlog. I just checked, and there are roughly
8000 documents that need to be cleaned up, page checked and pdf/OCRed
I also feel strongly about a single person
handling what goes up onto
my web site, and how it is organized.
I fully agree! That's why I've asked
for a controlled mechanism. Some
place in your realm where stuff can be put.