Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary images link

[Justin McBride]

Mark, 

Hey, that's pretty awesome! I tried doing something similar using your microfilm collection of JOD's Kanza stuff for an NEH grant Bob and I had back in 2005. But I got overwhelmed so quickly by the sheer quantity of slips, and, more importantly for me and my rather small webhosting package, the filesize of the slip images. I was thinking something along the lines of, "Let's see, that's around 1 MB per image, for, what...oh.... SEVERAL THOUSAND images..." But I see that you were able to reduce your image size to something far more manageable--looks to be on the order of 0.2 MB or so. That's way better than I ever got.  Still I can imagine that it's quite a lot of work to scan in each page, crop it two or three times to get individual slips--or zoom way in with your scanner three times per page--indexing them all in a logical way, and then building the slip browser page. Looks like you've done a good job, though.

Keep up the good work,
-Justin

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark J Awakuni-Swetland 
  To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:29 PM
  Subject: Omaha Ponca Digital Dictionary images link


  Aloha all, 

  I wanted to share this new link to the emerging scanned images from Dorsey's Omaha and Ponca slip file. 

  http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/images.php 

  Let me know if you have any difficulties viewing or moving in the link. 

  Feel free to share this with others who may have an interest in this. 

  Uthixide 

  Mark Awakuni-Swetland
  Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)
  University of Nebraska
  Lincoln, NE 68588-0368

  http://omahalanguage.unl.edu
  Phone 402-472-3455
  FAX: 402-472-9642

  "Ttenixa uxpathe egoN" a biama, winisi akHa. 
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