FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Re: Archiving THE MIGRANT online

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Sloan:

Congratulations on your selection as a TOS officer.  I did not
include you in the original mailing because you are not shown 
as an officer in any information available to me.  The TOS 
website shows officers thru the year 2003 and you are not 
listed there.  Hmmm?   

What was I thinking?  I should have noticed something strange
was going on when the award-winning website is still announcing
the spring meeting and has nothing about the fall meeting.  Who
is responsible for keeping TOS and everyone else up to date on
that website?

What office do you hold?   I saw a message in mid-June
from David Trently, saying he was hanging on to the treasurer
http://www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/06-2002/msg00094.html 
job and announced that they need someone.  Were you interested
in that position?   You would be really good at that!

Anyway, thanks for your valuable comments and response
to my message about archiving THE MIGRANT.  I know that 
Chuck and/you will have more to report at the upcoming fall meeting.
How do you get in touch with Chuck when you want to e-mail him ?

I tip my hat to you for bringing this up at the spring meeting.  And I
will tip my hat to anyone else who will tell the rest of us what is going
on in TOS.  Maybe we can depend on the leadership to keep us
informed and to respond to our e-mail.  You did!  Thank you !

Chris, you were a really good president of TOS and a true leader
and were responsive then and you are responsive now.

We need that in a good TOS president.  Don't you think ?

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN












-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Sloan <chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'Chuck Nicholson' <cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: [tn-bird] Re: Archiving THE MIGRANT online


>
>Although I am a current TOS officer, I was not one of the TOS leaders
>copied on Wallace's email.  Had I been, I would have responded that this
>issue was raised (by me) at the spring meeting, and it is being
>researched.
>
>As I see it, there are essentially three aspects to this task.  First,
>we must have the storage space, database server space, and web coding
>necessary for a searchable archive, in whatever searchable format it
>ends up being (my current thinking, subject to change, is .pdf is
>probably the easiest way to go).  Next, we need to establish a process
>for archiving all future issues (and those recent ones that still exist
>in electronic format) on an "as-you-go" basis, which I believe should be
>fairly easy once the technical process is in place.  The tough part is
>what to do with the older issues.  The large majority of them do not, I
>expect, exist in any electronic format, and I expect that it will be
>fairly expensive (either in terms of time, dollars, or both, depending
>on whether we do it "in house" or pay someone to do it professionally)
>to have them all scanned, OCRed and proofread.
>
>So, in short, this concept is on my radar screen, and I believe Chuck's
>as well, and hopefully Chuck and/or I will have more to report at the
>upcoming fall meeting.
>
>Chris Sloan
>Nashville, TN
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> [mailto:tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wallace Coffey
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 1:24 PM
>> To: 1-A TN-Birds
>> Subject: [tn-bird] Archiving THE MIGRANT online
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> TN-Birders:
>> 
>> Two weeks ago I sent Chuck Nicholson, president of the 
>> Tennessee Ornithological Society, an e-mail message about 
>> archiving online our state ornithological journal.
>> 
>> Among others I  copied were TOS leaders  Dev Joslin, Chris Welch, 
>> Rick Knight, Ron Hoff & Dollyann Myers, David Trently, Kevin 
>> Calhoon, David Pitts, Jan Shaw, Allan Trently, Phillip 
>> Casteel, Richard Lewis, Troy Ettel, Fred J. Alsop and Dave Buehler.
>> 
>> It is interesting that Chuck did not acknowledge my message 
>> nor comment.  And only one or two persons in the above list 
>> bothered to do so.
>> 
>> I thought maybe I should share these thoughts with other TN-Birders.
>> 
>> Wallace Coffey
>> Bristol, TN
>> 
>> ---------------------forward message 8/23/02 to Chuck
>> Nicholson---------------------
>> 
>> Chuck and others:
>> 
>> The Cooper Ornithological Society homepage (www.cooper.org) 
>> has a link to an archive of 102 years of THE CONDOR.
>> 
>> Since the TOS may be in financial position to have THE 
>> MIGRANT archived online,  I wonder if this is a good time for 
>> the society to consider the feasibility?
>> 
>> Several of us have talked about this for years but I am not 
>> aware off any serious effort.
>> 
>> Can we begin serious consideration of this subject?  Of 
>> course it won't be inexpensive.
>> 
>> Thanks for thinking about it.
>> 
>> Wallace
>> 
>> 
>> 
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