Quick Start to viewing and downloading documents:
-Choose "Browse Collections" from menu bar
-Choose a collection to browse
-Click "View the items in..." to see the collection.
In the collection, you can click on any item to display a page where you can read/download your selection. For downloads we recommend the PDF.
For each document:
- The Files section shows thumbnails of the download file types. Hover over a document to see it's file type and click to download. The PDF is best though a few files also have an audio recording of the address.
- The on-page Document Viewer displays the PDF which can be expanded full screen.
- PDF's in the Document Viewer or when downloaded show a picture of the original document, however any text you highlight will contain the unprocessed OCR text.
- Any .odt and .epub files contain only the uncorrected OCR text.
- epub files require an e-book reader -try the free Calibre.
Notes:
OCR text: Due to funding constriants we have not edited or corrected OCR text except for document titles and dates, therefore the OCR text is rather rough. However the text should be somewhat useful in text searching and quoting.
About this project:
Capture and processing: Documents were captured on a LED lit copy stand using a Nikon 24Mpx digital camera, cropped and adjusted for tone and detail in Adobe Lightroom and OCR processed with ABBYY Fine Reader Pro. The Website uses the Omeka Open Source digital library application.
Every effort was made to crop as little as possible. On the typewritten material, the type bleeds off the page to the right and the bottom -we've cropped as closely as we dared without losing text. Some typewritten documents also include handwritten notes and are best viewed as PDFs.
Details of the production process can be found in the Production Notes.
Metadata: At this time we have only basic metadata (Title, Item ID) to describe the documents. Metadata is not currently viewable on the website but it is available to search engines and the search function of this site.
A note on numbering and duplicate titles: We have preserved both the numbering and titles as found in the original archive. Numbering is not contiguous; "missing" numbers are indeed missing from our paper archive. On the other hand some titles appear to be duplicates but may actually contain differences that may be instructive as to the author's thinking over time.