Re: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources
Not to complain or to look a gift horse in the mouth, but : Some of the scans are so poorly done then highly compressed as to be illegible. Some of the original scanning was sloppy in the extreme - not square in the frame, bad focus carried through entire volumes, etc. I've downloaded either the jp2 versions or the original scanned images in some cases, and those are sometimes easier to see. This is the case with much of the archive dot org files, not just this batch. The original, uncropped unadjusted scans often show just how crude was their setup - books were laid out on a piece of cardboard with a few frame marks on it, with apparently no means of holding the pages in bound volumes down FLAT so the whole page could be in focus. Grease marks and crumbs showed that the scanning person was eating on the job, and his dirty fingers and nails appear here and there. Almost looks as if they hired bums off the street, quite frankly. Too bad they (the Library of Congress, I assume) aren't using volunteer collectors to do the scanning - at least they'd have enough interest to try doing a good job. - Original Message - From: srsel...@aol.com To: Phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:01 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources All I can say is WOW! Not only all the EPMs but look at what else. Below is a posting from Sam Brylawski from the ARSCList - which I'm sure many of you PHONO collectors are not on. Steve Ramm I don't recall reading an announcement of this here. If I'm mistaken I hope you'll agree that it's well worth a new mention. The great Media History Project that scans media serials for the Internet Archive, and provides a handy front end for them, has added runs of Talking Machine World; the 1896 Phonoscope; and the Edison Phonograph Monthly to its already rich holdings. http://mediahistoryproject.org/broadcasting/ Congrats and thanks to David Pierce (author of the important and just-published survey of extant silent films) and his team, and the staff of the LC Recorded Sound Reference Center. Have fun. My apologies to your families. Sam Brylawski ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources
Looks like most government projects. ... Too bad actually as using volunteer collectors and interest parties would have produced a product of lasting value. On 12/07/2013 03:34 AM, DanKj wrote: Not to complain or to look a gift horse in the mouth, but : Some of the scans are so poorly done then highly compressed as to be illegible. Some of the original scanning was sloppy in the extreme - not square in the frame, bad focus carried through entire volumes, etc. I've downloaded either the jp2 versions or the original scanned images in some cases, and those are sometimes easier to see. This is the case with much of the archive dot org files, not just this batch. The original, uncropped unadjusted scans often show just how crude was their setup - books were laid out on a piece of cardboard with a few frame marks on it, with apparently no means of holding the pages in bound volumes down FLAT so the whole page could be in focus. Grease marks and crumbs showed that the scanning person was eating on the job, and his dirty fingers and nails appear here and there. Almost looks as if they hired bums off the street, quite frankly. Too bad they (the Library of Congress, I assume) aren't using volunteer collectors to do the scanning - at least they'd have enough interest to try doing a good job. - Original Message - From: srsel...@aol.com To: Phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:01 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources All I can say is WOW! Not only all the EPMs but look at what else. Below is a posting from Sam Brylawski from the ARSCList - which I'm sure many of you PHONO collectors are not on. Steve Ramm I don't recall reading an announcement of this here. If I'm mistaken I hope you'll agree that it's well worth a new mention. The great Media History Project that scans media serials for the Internet Archive, and provides a handy front end for them, has added runs of Talking Machine World; the 1896 Phonoscope; and the Edison Phonograph Monthly to its already rich holdings. http://mediahistoryproject.org/broadcasting/ Congrats and thanks to David Pierce (author of the important and just-published survey of extant silent films) and his team, and the staff of the LC Recorded Sound Reference Center. Have fun. My apologies to your families. Sam Brylawski ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources
Agreed. WOW. This is great to see for easy research access. For me I went straight to Talking Machine World looking for 1916 and 1917 which are the two big years for me in doing some research and these are the only two missing years between 1905-1928! Oh well. I'm sure in time they will come. Glenn www.majesticrecord.com From: srsel...@aol.com srsel...@aol.com To: Phono-l@oldcrank.org Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 11:01 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Wonderful new web resources All I can say is WOW! Not only all the EPMs but look at what else. Below is a posting from Sam Brylawski from the ARSCList - which I'm sure many of you PHONO collectors are not on. Steve Ramm I don't recall reading an announcement of this here. If I'm mistaken I hope you'll agree that it's well worth a new mention. The great Media History Project that scans media serials for the Internet Archive, and provides a handy front end for them, has added runs of Talking Machine World; the 1896 Phonoscope; and the Edison Phonograph Monthly to its already rich holdings. http://mediahistoryproject.org/broadcasting/ Congrats and thanks to David Pierce (author of the important and just-published survey of extant silent films) and his team, and the staff of the LC Recorded Sound Reference Center. Have fun. My apologies to your families. Sam Brylawski ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
