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Sydney Bush Walkers (SBW) has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. A project has been running to digitise the old SBW club magazines, and to make them available for searching.

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 first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines (before 2000) to PDF. This stage is almost complete, with 768 out of 781 (98.3%) of the magazines scanned and available from this site. The small number remaining are in the process of being tracked down.

The second stage is also underway. 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 editing is needed to get the text corrected. The main purpose of this wiki is to allow anyone to edit the text files. 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, so even if you have only a bit of free time to help out, why not give it a go.

No experience is necessary. If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just create an account. Once you have created an account, you can pick a magazine and begin editing. See the instructions for what you need to do to correct the files.

To have a look at the work that has been done, check out the tracking page, or have a look at a completed magazine. A list of 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).

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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