Dorsey MicroFilm (fwd)

[Craig Kopris]

Yes, conversion services are definitely available -
I've had microfiche converted myself.  Unfortunately,
the company I used a few years back, New England
Archiving or similar, is no longer in business.  A
google search on microfilm conversion will bring up
several other companies.

Services go beyond just putting the image on cd;
companies will offer (for a greater fee) to clean up
the results as well.  I avoided that "help", on the
assumption that the cleaners wouldn't recognize old
Jesuit handwritten diacritics as other than smudges.
Indexing can be added, as well.

>>From what I remember, the cost of an initial cd can be
high, but additional copies are cheap.  Perhaps those
interested in having the Dorsey mss on cd could pool
their resources?

Sizewise, I had a 500+ p ms, plus software for
extracting and viewing the images, all fit on one cd
with room to spare.

Craig Kopris


--- Koontz John E <John.Koontz at colorado.edu> wrote:
> I've taken the liberty of posting this to the list.
> Tjhis a great
> question which came to me as a personal query, but
> it's one for which I
> don't have an answer and an answer would be very
> desirable to SIouanists
> at large.  I've been asking myself the same question
> for about two years
> now!  I was just discussing this with Mark Swetland,
> too.  Is it possible
> to convert microfilm to a stack of CDs with image
> files on them?  Does
> anyone know the tools for this, or the name of any
> services that do it for
> you?
>
> John E. Koontz
> http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 01:16:55 -0600
> From: Tom Leonard <tleonard at prodigy.net>
>
> Aho, John!
>
> Have a question for you. Several years ago I
> purchased all of the
> microfilms (6 or 8 rolls) of the Dorsey material at
> the National Archives.
> These were the rolls that you had told me about.
>
> [Note:  The world owes these to Mark Swetland who
> went to the NAA and made
> them for them.  Unlike the APS, the NAA does not -
> or did not at the time,
> anyway - make it a practice to microfilm their
> holdings.  I suspect this
> is a budgetary issue, since it's kind of an obvious
> step.]
>
> There's some great material on them but I don't have
> convenient access to
> a microfilm reader. Copying each slide got way too
> expensive and the
> copies were hard to read.
>
> Considering the advances in technology and lower
> equipment prices, it
> seems to me we should now be able to scan the film
> into tiff , GIF, JPEG,
> etc., files. I ordered "reverse images" on the
> films, i.e. black writing
> on white background (a whole lot easier to read).
> I've been shopping
> around eBay and the like for scanners but I really
> don't know enough about
> what is required.
>
> Have any idea about what's needed here? Does anyone
> at CU have the
> necessary equipment or ability to advise?
>
> Having the Dorsey material in digital format would
> be a whole lot easier
> for a bunch of us; don't you think?
>
> Would appreciate any ideas you might have on this.
>
> Wi'btha ho!
> Tom


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