Apparently ICS management took Bill Mixon's comments to
heart. When I downloaded the ICS Proceedings today they were 86,
153, and 155 MB! All illustrations were excellent quality.
Mark Minton
Bill Mixon said:
When I saw that these things were all under 20 MB in size, I suspected
that the graphics had all been severely compressed. That's the only
way to get a 600-page PDF that small. Indeed, they show really gross
compression artifacts, although the few I've examined remain legible,
if ugly. I hope when the PDFs of the individual papers are made, the
illustrations are not compressed. The individual papers will be small
files regardless.
It would also be nice if the full volumes were available, optionally,
with decent quality, in addition to these small files.-- Mixon
Begin forwarded message:
From: ICS 2009 eList <[email protected]>
Date: November 6, 2009 2:15:20 AM CST
To: [email protected]
Subject: 15th ICS - Proceedings on line!
Dear Friends,
My apologies for the long delay. In August I wrote that the
proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Speleology would be
posted soon on the Karst Information Portal (KIP), but this was
delayed due to someone's illness. However, the proceedings are now
available at
http://www.lib.usf.edu/karst-test/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=367
The proceedings are currently posted as PDF files, as they were
printed in three large volumes. The PDFs are thus large, 11, 16, and
18 Mb for volumes 1, 2, and 3. The Table of Contents is in Volume 1.
The index is in Volume 3. You will notice that for most items in the
index, the given page numbers are 2 pages larger than the actual page
number. This was because of a last minute correction when there was
not enough time to renumber the index and have the proceedings printed
in time for the Congress
The above address is the direct address to the proceedings. This is a
part of the KIP that is being redesigned and tested. The main address
for the KIP is www.karstportal.org. You can use the keyword search in
the upper right corner to find information. The keyword can be a cave
name, author name, or other information that may be in the reports you
want. However, the proceedings PDFs have not yet been indexed for the
search system and so you will not yet find them that way. The KIP team
is working to index all of the papers, but also to divide the three
PDFs into individual files, one for each paper. The work is not
difficult, but with over 500 papers in the proceedings it will be
slow. I will notify you as soon as the indexing is complete and the
individual papers are posted.
George
George Veni, Ph.D.
Chairman, 15th International Congress of Speleology
Vice President of Administration, International Union of Speleology
Executive Director, U.S. National Cave and Karst Research Institute
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