> On Feb 18, 2024, at 11:46 AM, David Walters <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Hari for your kind words. David's most important construction was
> his PDFing of Lenin's Collect Worker (LCW). I think mostly the 5th Edition
> printed in Moscow. We at the MIA, mostly Brian Basgen and myself, scanned the
> LCW to create individual documents of each and every entry in the LCW. We
> did this as HTML/web pages so each one could be found and referenced and then
> linked to from other documents (i.e.: Kautsky on Lenin and then Lenin's reply
> so folks can read the entire debate) which is what the promise is hypertext.
> What David R. did was to scan the LCW as PDFs but used a rarely used format
> that reproduced, with embedded OCR, the 45 volumes of the LCW. They look like
> they were typical PDFs of the "image" kind you see everywhere else but they
> are not. They use embedded alternate fonts and are quite beautiful in their
> presentation. We offer his renditions as well as our own. The MIA sees itself
> as a kind of clearing house/repository-archive for stuff that has shown up on
> the internet in other venues. We do harvest other sites but seek out
> permission to place them on the MIA before posting them.
How much time do you think was spent on scanning and OCR'ing LCW, David? Has
anyone written the story of the MIA with such details? The one I did find in
the capitalist press was about Intellectual Property issues: The NYT crowed
about the contradictions of turning socialist works into private property and
the challenge facing socialist publishers in a capitalist market.
Mark
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