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Index of Subjects Hi all! On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Mark Rushton wrote: > Sounds like a fabulous project. Ia gree _ a very worthwhile enterprise. > I'm in the midst of my own genealogical research (Sumara family > emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1904), and know the importance of this > to many people. > > I'm wondering if you have had contact with the Genealogical > Association of Nova Scotia, and whether they have expressed any > interest? (URL below) > > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Recreation/GANS/index.html Yes, do touch base with them. They could be very helpful. > CCN would be pleased to host the publication on-line, we would just > need to find > - someone to direct the project of turning it into a > publicly-accessible document > - either volunteers to do the technical work, > - or funding to hire someone to do it > > The minimum effort involved would be to scan the 800 pages and > publish the site as one big sequential text file. Easy, but a > tedious first step. With a small amount of funding one could scan the text through an OCR program and generate some reasonably good-quality text. It could then be readily turned into HTMl and some sort of indexing could probably easily be done. CCN search scripts could quite handily be used to search on keywords, etc. through the documents. > Any funding from Heritage Canada (do they still exist?). Of course! I'm just spendin $1,000 from them as we speak. ;-> > In any event, I'd be happy to continue a discussion with you around > the possibilities. Great ideas: carry on! Christopher Majka _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor: Culture & Philosophy - Chebucto Community Net, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture.html "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved." -- Andre Malraux, 1957 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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