[tei-council] NASA looking to digitize Wernher von Braun's Notes

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

Well interestingly enough, digitizing PDFs at a good rate is a members' 
benefit we are looking into right now, as well.

I suspect the thing to do is lay out the technology and hook them up 
with our preferred vendor, perhaps with one of our larger digitizing 
members acting as lead liaison?

All they want at this point is information. Basically, it seems to me, 
that involves explaining the steps by which the notes would be 
digitized, an outline of what TEI markup does for them, and then a 
discussion about transformations and indexing.

I'd suspect the TEI as an organisation would be a good choice for the 
answer to the RFI. If it came to overseeing the work, then we'd 
presumably want one of our larger and more experienced members to take 
the lead.

What do others think?

Laurent Romary wrote:
> I am not sure about the TEI as a body (though...), but there would be  
> no difficulty (I think) in finding a core group of candidate  
> insitution to join forces.
> Laurent
>
> Le 30 juin 09 à 18:26, Gabriel BODARD a écrit :
>
>   
>> This does sound cool, and I think we should put in the info-doc. But
>> David's second point is serious: is the TEI a body that can take on  
>> such
>> a project?
>>
>> Or should we be searching for a member organization (or more than one)
>> to host the proposal? (I'm not in a position to offer, I'm just
>> wondering if we should...)
>>
>> G
>>
>> David Sewell wrote:
>>     
>>> The requested 10-page information document does not sound too  
>>> onerous.
>>> It would be another thing altogether for the TEI to respond to a  
>>> formal
>>> Request for Proposal to take on the project.
>>>
>>> I'd have time to help after mid-July, assuming I can get done with  
>>> the
>>> things on my plate at the moment.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Dot Porter wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> The subject says it all. More here:
>>>> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/nasadata-2/
>>>>
>>>> I think we should put together a formal proposal. Perhaps bring in
>>>> others from the community with experience encoding/digitizing
>>>> scientific manuscripts. Anyone interested?
>>>>
>>>> Dot
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
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University of Lethbridge

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