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00:02
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joepie91 |
why hello there ArloJames |
00:03
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joepie91 |
well, this is a pretty low-traffic channel, only really used for "what's the password" and "hey, X is going down", longer discussion is usually moved to #archiveteam-bs, as is off-topic chatter |
00:11
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ArloJames |
joepie91 - I figured, but before I would have assumed that the main channel would be the casual, higher-throughput channel, and then there would be a dedicated #archiveteam-login or #archiveteam-announcements side channel. It matters not, though. |
03:22
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ArloJames |
Night |
04:19
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marc |
yo |
04:20
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marc |
what'sa good doc format- better than .doc? |
04:20
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marc |
pdf? |
04:20
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marc |
(for sf bay guardian newspaper articles frm past 2 0 years- some guy wrote a macro to upgrade everything frm wordstar/word6-> word 2003 |
04:21
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trs80 |
ODF? |
04:21
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marc |
hrm not sure word exports to that |
04:21
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marc |
can prolly convert pdf to odf tho |
04:21
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marc |
ODT tho |
04:22
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marc |
interesting i'll look into it thx |
04:22
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marc |
looks like someone made exporter for word2003 |
05:22
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db48x |
pdf is a pretty good choice |
05:22
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db48x |
a conversion from doc to pdf to odf probably won't have a lot of fidelity though |
05:23
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db48x |
pdf is great at capturing the visual layout of a document, but it loses a lot of semantic information |
05:25
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db48x |
even things like the reading order of lines of text are missing from pdf (pdf will have the coordinates and size, instead) |
05:28
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db48x |
whatever conversions you decide on, the best thing to do is keep the originals as well |
05:29
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db48x |
we can emulate the old software to read them, or redo the conversions as the tools improve |
06:09
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DFJustin |
^ this |
08:59
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midas |
or LaTeX |
09:47
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db48x |
LaTeX isn't future-proof. TeX would be |
09:49
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db48x |
and conversions to LaTeX/TeX are annoying |
15:28
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joepie91 |
marc: please make sure a copy of it exists in an open format at least |
15:29
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joepie91 |
no point in having a copy if you can't read it and the information needed to do so is missing |
15:29
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joepie91 |
:) |
18:21
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Jonimus |
have any of the FTP archiving projects gotten ftp://ftp.ti.com/ ? |
18:26
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aaaaaaaaa |
according to the list here: http://dat.serveert.me.uk/p/ftp it looks like no one has gotten it yet |
23:01
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SketchCow |
Hi, archive team |
23:01
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SketchCow |
My little gift. Don't tweet. |
23:02
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SketchCow |
http://archive.org/v2 |
23:03
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Smiley |
saw that yesterday. is nice. |
23:05
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Smiley |
down to d's in the meta works |
23:57
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wp494 |
okay I guess tweet all you want |
23:57
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wp494 |
since IA themselves tweeted http://blog.archive.org/2014/10/28/building-libraries-together/ |
23:57
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wp494 |
which mentions v2 |
23:58
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Smiley |
f's ahoy!!! |
23:59
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wp494 |
IA could make loads of $$$ if they sold tabletop scribes |
23:59
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Smiley |
a wut? |
23:59
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wp494 |
even if it's just the scribe unit itself (as in "bring your own lights & camera") |
23:59
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Smiley |
oh for books? |