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Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:53:44 PST
From:	Bruce Kennedy <Bowood@sympatico.ca >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: [Editorial] SCOUG In The Car

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SCOUG:

I have been following, with interest, the saga of the tapes. I think a
solution might be to put everything on CD's. Then they can be reproduced easily
and even portions of them can be emailed. The 'Record Library' would be
physically smaller and the archives would physically last longer. If technology
changes (that's a big IF because we all know that never happens) transferring
the records to a new format would be easier.

Cataloging the contents would fit well within the technology all of us have
on our desktops or laptops. Producing a catalog in Adobe PDF is a snap and can
be read in any operating system.

I live in Toronto. Let me know if there is any way I can help.

Cheers
Bruce Kennedy
Bowood@sympatico.ca

Dave Watson wrote:

> On 7 Feb 01, at 10:58, Steven Levine wrote:
> > ...Are you volunteering to maintaint he tape library? This would include
> > tracking the lending process as well as promoting the available tapes. If
> > so, please contact Steve Schiffman to work out the details.
>
> Steven, are you volunteering to sponsor the needed funding to
> produce usable tapes we can archive? That would be helpful, but
> we probably need to define what our objectives are and analyze
> how we should meet it first. Archiving is a whole lot easier than
> producing. And our experience with video tapes is we haven't had
> a lot of demand for tracking and lending.
>
> One thought occurs - if we have decent quality audio records, it
> might be possible to use voice recognition to convert them to text
> and produce transcripts. That might provide a more useful record
> than the rew audio, and certainly would be much more compact.
> Need a little market analysis to figure out what would be useful to
> the community.
>
> Our experience with home-made video tapes is that the resulting
> poor quality tapes aren't very useful. If we want to do it we should
> consider how we want to use the audio and obtain equipment
> sufficient to meet that need.
>
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