25 May
2010
25 May
'10
1:45 a.m.
Hi folks,
as some of you might know I'm dealing with quite a lot of documentation
in paper form. From time to time I scan some docs that cannot yet be
found on the web (i.e. Al's bitsavers.org).
A few month ago I posted some notifications about having uploaded stuff
to a temporary folder on my website. But I have no clue if it has been
taken by anyone or Al Kossow. This feels a bit complicated to me.
So I'd like to suggest some possibility to upload stuff to bitsavers
directly. Or to a special "incoming" folder or something like that. I'd
like to have an easy and reliable way to offload my stuff. Without
writing emails, asking for acknowledge and all that hassle.
For me personally having some kind of access via scp would be perfect.
Some people might prefer ftp/sftp.
I could have written this in a private email to Al but I assume that it
might be sensible to have some kind of discussion around the topic.
Hope you're all fine!
Kind regards,
Philipp
25 May
25 May
1:53 a.m.
In article <4BFB2BA8.1080702 at hachti.de>,
Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> writes:
You can monitor the bitsavers RSS feed to stay up-to-date on new additions.
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/bitsavers-pdf.xml>
Ideally, submitting new documents to bitsavers is something we've
talked about incorporating into manx. I'd love to work with Al on
creating a mechanism by which documents could be incorporated into
bitsavers, but there's more to that than just scanning and uploading.
There is the legal issue of copyright to consider.
Feature suggestions and discussion on manx is always welcome.
<http://manx.codeplex.com>
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3:54 a.m.
Dear Al,
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.
The basic idea is that there must be some kind of storage with some very
simple rules:
1. People drop stuff into individual locations (i.e. directories). Each
one can write to "his" space only.
2. People do not delete stuff from "their" incoming directory.
3. You pick up the stuff and sort it in - whenever you'll find the time.
4. You - and only you - delete stuff you've either uploaded or decided
to discard.
This would make it easier for all parties. That way questions like
"already picked up?" and other risks of that kind are prevented.
I personally could offer storage space for that purpose. Giving access
to you, me, and other people who have reason to participate. I have some
massively connected online space - but currently without backup. What
about that?
I'm not hopeful that things will calm down for me
until the new exhibit
is finished early next year.
Oh, exhibit... Have to go to my museum work.... :-)
BTW I'd like to have a software that helps me to easily add bookmarks to
pdf files produced by my Aficio...
Kind regards,
Philipp
2:35 p.m.
On 5/24/10 8:54 PM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
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
9 Jun
9 Jun
11:12 p.m.
Hi,
Ok, I'll
do that now. Will send you a personal email soon.
Everybody else who wants to contribute should contact me.
I was thinking about the statistics this morning, and
less than 1% of the
contents of bitsavers has come from external donations.
That's quite
impressive!
Oh :-/
I'm currently completely busy (that means full time!) with rescuing, sorting,
repairing, selling,
trading, and playing with real stuff....
Regards,
Philipp
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