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+ | **[[magazines|SBW Magazines]]** | ||
The project is a massive amount of work for one person. One of the aims of the project is to distribute the work, and allow as many members as possible to work on it. | The project is a massive amount of work for one person. One of the aims of the project is to distribute the work, and allow as many members as possible to work on it. | ||
- | The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines to PDF. This stage is almost complete, with around 96% (approx 780) of the magazines scanned and available from this site. The small number remaining | + | The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines |
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+ | The second stage is also well progressed. This stage is to use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert the PDFs to text, and to edit and tidy the text files that are produced. OCR does only a rough job, so a fair bit of manual editing is needed to get the text corrected. The main purpose | ||
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+ | If every SBW member tidied up just one issue, the entire history of SBW would be digitised just like that. It takes around an hour to tidy up one issue, less for specific articles. Even if you have only a bit of free time to help out, why not give it a go. **As at Jan 2022, 82.2% of the magazines have been completed.** | ||
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+ | **No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just [[http:// | ||
- | The second stage is also underway. This stage is to use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert | + | To have a look at the work that has been done, check out the **[[magazines|tracking page]]**, or have a look at a [[199201|completed magazine]]. A list of **[[interesting_articles|interesting |
- | **No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just [[http:// | + | A more recent effort has also been made to collect |
- | To have a look at the work that has been done, check out the [[magazines|tracking page]], or have a look at a [[199201|completed magazine]]. A list of [[interesting_articles|interesting articles]] has been started if you need a suggestion on which magazine to begin. Also see the list of [[editors]] of The Sydney Bushwalker (current as at October 2013). | + | **[[recent_magazines|Recent Magazines]]** |
- | If you have any problems in general, or with using the wiki, please drop me an email at [[mailto: | + | If you have any problems in general, or with using the wiki, please drop me an email at [[website@ozultimate.com]]. |
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