searching CDs in Microfilm to CD conversion.

[Carolyn Q.]

I think I have a hard copy of all the Osage from this collection.  But the
advantages of having the material on CD seem to be important.  I have two
(perhaps naive) questions:

1. Since the materials will be just scanned and probably no OCR will work,
would we somehow be able to search the materials more easily than paper
copies of same? (At the very least perhaps via cataloguing tracks laid in
the CDs?)

2. Would we be able to distinguish characters better than on paper copies?
(Many of the typed Osage slips from this collection, for example, are too
blurry to read in my paper copy.)

If the answer to either of these question is positive, then it would be
worth it to contribute funds to have the material on CDs and acquire a set
of CDs, even if we already have a paper version of the material, it seems to
me.

Carolyn





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Vida Stabler
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:53 AM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Microfilm to CD conversion.


The UmoNhoN Language Center will be able to contribute something.  Who is
taking the lead on keeping track of the money contributed and money
needed???
I like where this is going.  V. Stabler


Rory M Larson wrote:

> Bob wrote:
> > If there is a movement toward getting the Omaha lexicon, all 20+K of it,
> > converted to CD format, please count me in as someone who would
> contribute his
> > financial share.  (I already have hard copy of the Kansa and Quapaw
> dictionaries
> > and wouldn't need those reels.)
>
> Ditto here, and also for the Kansa, Quapaw and Osage
> material, which I don't have.
>
> Rory