Date : Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:34:39 +0100
From : famrowland@... (Andrew Rowland)
Subject: Beebug Magazine on-line project
All,
We have the go-ahead from Sheridan Williams, who owns the copyright to
Beebug magazine!
The next job is deciding what format(s) to present the magazine in. I favour
OCR'd text as it's then searchable and gives smallest file sizes. But should
that be supported by scans? Would the sheer quantity lead to huge hosting
costs if the resolution is high enough to be usable? Would converting to
HTML with in-line graphics for diagrams & pictures be too work intensive for
us? Hope to do some experiments and arithmetic over the weekend.
We're still looking for people to lend time -- how ever little -- or
expertise to the project. Just contact me if you have questions.
The jobs that would need doing include:
. scanning
. reducing images to on-line friendly file sizes
. checking OCR'd text
. database creation
. indexing (adding fields like author and abstract to the database)
. web site programming.
- Andrew
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From: bbc-micro-bounces+famrowland=freeuk.com@...
[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+famrowland=freeuk.com@...] On
Behalf Of Andrew Rowland
Sent: Tue, 29 September 2009 21:30
To: 'Mark Usher'; bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Beebug Magazine on-line project
Mark,
Thanks. Been in contact with Adrian Calcraft at Beebug today, and he will
find out who owns the copyright.
More news as I get it...
-Andrew
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From: Mark Usher [mailto:mu.list@...]
Sent: Mon, 28 September 2009 22:20
To: 'Andrew Rowland'; bbc-micro@...
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Beebug Magazine on-line project
Try beebug.co.uk ;-) It may be (and is probably) the case, that it will be
more complicated than single ownership and many of the individual authors
may have some sort of entitlement.
The images are raw tiff files at 600 dpi IIRC. So they need processing
first, making sure they are clean, resampling ready for PDF/OCR conversion,
or web page conversion, whichever is more appropriate.
-Mark