The Scribner article has been digitized and whittled down in size to 232k as a
PDF file -- so it is sendable over email. A couple of pages have not been
completely pushed to text through OCR. In part some scans were not good
enough and in part there is some handwriting over the text in red ink,
confusing the ocr algorithm. It would actually be faster to retype what
remains than continue to push the OCR strategy.
Nevertheless, the entire paper is digitized, although about 10% of the text
appears in image format. The entire thing is printable, so it can be put on
the list of available papers.
I took a look at the knowledge forum demo -- the big drawbacks are that 1)
everything is stored on the server and 2) there is only browser (or client)
access. That means that higher bandwidth than email is required, and the
content is not distributed to local machines through email messages -- one
cannot work offline or use the advantages of local email clients.
Personally, the KF server seems to have trouble serving up web pages to my
open-source and much preferred browser.
bb
On Friday 29 November 2002 09:57 am, Mike Cole wrote to all of us:
> Nate-- As I said yesterday, I do not feel competent to choose among the
> alternatives. I'll keep working at getting articles available. May the xmca
> cogniscenti (sp?) come up with the best of all possible plans.
> mike
> .,
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