John, Could you please tell what is all this about.
I have never heard of it is it available to all indexers?
another thing is I have never used dropbox could you please tell me about
that is it only for certain newspaper indexers.
Maybe I don't go to the right place to know about these things.
Thanks for your great work.
Jean
On 18 January 2017 at 19:26, John Graham <johngrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Repository (aka RNR) is now up and running. It contains 99.9% of the
scans I have - the rest are "problems" I need to massage a bit before
loading them.
As I was uploading the files, I made one change to the structure I set out
in yesterday's email - any newspaper with a masthead of "The" followed by a
*single
word* has had the "The" left in the folder name, and appears
alphabetically under "The". There were only four. I did this because the
single names (Chronicle, Observer etc) didn't work very well on their own.
Another little job yet to be done is to align the newspaper names we see
on the search results screen and on the lookup request form with the names
in RNR.
I will be removing the old Ryerson Notice Scans folder later tonight, so
please use the RNR for all future access.
The RNR folder in Dropbox (about 70Gb) has two "owners" with update access
- myself and Paul Kean (pauljkean@xxxxxxxxxxxx) - so there should always
be someone available to attend to any problems.
Now - what other scans are out there in people's private caches?
If you have runs of a particular paper which you are happy to include in
RNR, please contact me *offlist* and I'll set you up with a dropbox
connection to transfer the files.
John
