I have a complete collection of MR Yearbooks from 1962 to 2005, except that 1981's is missing, together with Newsletters and Magazines (not the complete set)from October 1973.
Would the Keeper of Class Records like them?
Alternatively, if the class wish, I'll take them to the Maritime Museum at Falmouth.
If not would anyone else like to give them a good home?

Maybe it would be nice to have some of them on display in a suitable fashion (i.e. so they don't get covered in beer...)at the anniversary champs this year?  There must be some corking stories and/or photos!

Any volunteers to scan the articles in (mainly the technical ones of rigging set up) so we can collate them appropriately on the website?

I want to see them Tony - so much nostalgia - I would have to be in the right mood or I might crack up.
It is very important that they are archived somehow. I know that Terry Stark and John Stokes have a lot of stuff as well. There may be others too.
Maybe together we still have a complete record of 60 years of Merlin-Rocketing.
What is the best of way of keeping this stuff for posterity?

If you need some scanning done, I will offer to do some of them, or all over a perid of time, and convert them to pdf files that could be stored on the web site, or put on DVD,  Great lunch time reading when eating at work.
DaveF

Tony - only just caught up with this - I think it's really important to archive these in some way and I'm happy to coordinate that, particularly if we have offers of help (thanks guys)!  I will e-mail you with my phone number and then hopefully we can sort something out.

Judith

Dave,
I did get Ross to scan some in for me - PDF itself is ok, its what inside it that counts - a B&W image may not create a large file, but its not very good for the web - we need the text to be searchable, and maybe change the formatting.
Think we need some OCR to be done...
Mags

That's what i was going to do, OCR it into word put the pics back in after scanning Them hi res, than create the pdf for the web, and have a word or publish doc for reprinting if required.

Dave.

Don't use word, use nice simple html.  Word is really really top-heavy.

Now what would be really slick would be to take the text and turn it into xml.  We could then render it with a stylesheet and search only certain sections.
Something like...
Rowsell
     Canterbury Tales
     12

Presumably this clear out at Point is to make room for sufficient whisky stocks in readiness for a Worsdale visit???

Hi Dave/Mage

Sadly I don't have OCR on my pdf scanner. I have all the tidy paper printouts that I wanted to scan in for the web. If I bring to some meetings in future maybe one of you could kindly scn in. They were articles from the last 5 years on technical issues that would be useful for new members.

Cheers, Ross

If it helps any I have access to 70ppm duplex to pdf scanner - as long as we don't mind taking the staples out.

office 2003 and xp save as html format anyway. or what ever format you want.
Eport it into front page and run an index engine and you can search to your hearts content.

Hurrah! You lovely lovely volunteers - please email me and we'll have a chat.

Word = bad
FrontPage = bad
XML = good
Plain Text = good

Guys, if you can scan it to tiff at the highest res possible (pref 600x600) then we should be able to do OCR on it afterwards.

Tiff is key here, not jpeg or pdf.  The other key is to get them dead square on the page.