birds are weird
Okay, this is going to be complicated.Scanning: working my way through the set of Australian Hand Weaver and Spinner that we had originally agreed would be my "test set," but I am thinking more and more that they are probably going to be THE set, because all this other stuff is taking so long. That's good because it's a finite collection of not-too-unreasonable size, but it's disappointing because I was hoping to get a lot more done.
OCR: still under consideration. We were supposed to have a meeting with the guild officers and put all these things before them, so that no one can later fuss at Sue for not having been privy to all the decision making, but Sue's son got married this past weekend and she had to cancel our meeting. We have not yet rescheduled, so idk if we are going to meet this coming Sunday or the 2nd as originally scheduled. She's still thinking about OCR, though, in the sense of "how usable will the end product be?" I ran a journal through Abbyy Finereader, and the results looked pretty good, but I don't really know how to use Finereader, so if they want word docs or something at the end of all this, I'll need to figure out how to do that.
Storage/server: Ugh, this is killing me. What I need is a way to store these files I am creating, these PDFs that are averaging 17MB in size. I was trying to install Fedora to use that, but a) installing Fedora was really freaking hard and I was in over my head, and b) I realized that was the wrong way to go about it because having that installed on my machine won't do them any good. So I started looking for a way to make some sort of online storage system work, and I am at a loss.
The situation is: They don't have a machine of their own, or a server, so there's nowhere for me to install a system like Fedora or Greenstone. They have webspace because of their domain (wssaustin.org), but I can't, like, install a thing to the space because it's just space, not a server. I looked into google sites, which I thought would be a great storage idea, but they have a 10MB limit on the files you can upload there. I also investigated google base, but I am pretty sure that anything you upload to the google base becomes publicly available to everyone using it, and there's too much copyright uncertainty for that. So then I started looking at online file management systems, like, I could utilize the space they already have that goes with their domain, but getting into that realm is overwhelming and I feel like real quick you get into the territory of just buying a system.
Sue has said that if I present a good argument for it, they'd probably be willing to pay a monthly fee for space, but I can't come up with something that would be appropriate--and somebody already pays for wssaustin.org.
I am at a loss! I was thinking before that I would figure out the server/storage space problem down the line, but now it is apparent that while I can keep scanning till the world looks flat, I really need to be also coming up with a plan for where this stuff's going to go, before I run out of time.
I am frustrated because my goal was to digitize and provide an organized system of storage and use, but more and more it is looking like my project is just turning into digitization. I really want to be able to build a library, or storage system, or whatever, because this is the sort of thing I'd like to do, but I am frustrated by my lack of resources and I keep coming up blank. I need advice! HELP D:
posted by Rebekah @ 8:15 PM
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