[Northkeep] Hey, Old Folks/Nordic Saga

[Istvan Temesvari]

I agree with Zahava. To satisfy both views, I propose the following
(which is done with period MS quite often).

Create exact images of the documents, smudges, faint words, and all.
Leave one copy of the images alone. On a second copy, make the corrections
and clean them up so they are readable. You may want to go so far as
to OCR them into real text and convert them into (HTML?) documents,
with embedded graphics. Link this copy to the old copy. (If you just
clean up the graphic, and don't create text, you may want to create an
"index" graphic with the original and the "clean" one side by side.)

If you like this proposal, go for it. If not, don't. ;) It will take more
time, but the final result will be much nicer in my opinion.

Istvan


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Miriam Cook wrote:

> Now this is just my opinion, but... we are not trying
> to preserve a record of xerographic capabilities of
> the late 20th century, rather the actual information
> contained therein.
>
> Zahava
>
> --- Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >From: HNiewoehner at netscape.net (Hugh Niewoehner)
> > >Once scanned, how 'bout burning to CD?
> > >I can do it if you get me the files.
> >
> > I may be mistaken, but I think that's part of the
> > idea.
> >
> > Ok, simple question.
> >
> > Some of these are scanning so that a line here, a
> > word there, is coming out
> > very faint.  Now, correcting these digitally (or
> > even in pen before I scan
> > them, isn't a big deal - except that it is.  That's
> > changing the historical
> > record.  Anyone going to have any problem if I do
> > this?
> >
> > M/D
> >