[SCC_Active_Members] FW: Doug Ross - Obit; CNC history sources

[Paul McJones]

Courtney, Lee wrote:
> Great idea. I hadn't thought about pushing such raw data put onto the
> site, but makes sense to expose to the network effect of the web.
>   
"rawness" may be an issue: Paula may be uncomfortable publishing such 
finding aids that include items that were culled from the original 
donation. (In the case of the Halpern donation, I did my best to remove 
from my "catalog" the items the Museum did not accept.)
> Does the SCC/SPG Plone site get indexed by the Museum's search appliance
> (I didn't even know we had one!) and crawled by external search engines.
> I just don't know if that material is opaque to the outside world. If it
> is then we should make it visible.
>   
Yes and yes. For example, try Googling for "733 drum timing track"; the 
#1 hit is:
http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/FORTRAN/paper/John%20Van%20Gardner%20-%20Fortran%20And%20The%20Genesis%20Of%20Project%20Intercept.pdf

which is a memoir written by John Van Gardner who was an IBM CE who 
installed 704 serial number 13.

Now go to the search box in the lower-right corner of the Museum's home 
page and type in the same phrase. You'll get two hits: Gardner's memoir 
and a broken link:
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/pdp-16/dec.pdp-16.bell_grason_newell.designing_computers_and_digital_systems_using_pdp-16_register_transfer_modules.1972.102630381.pdf
> I'll post the detailed list of Ed's material to the Plone site in the
> next couple days. Whats a good format - PDF, text, Excel? 
>   
Text is good because it places the minimum requirements on readers. But 
multiple formats are also good. And Adobe recently proposed that ISO 
take over responsibility for the full PDF standard (not just the PDF/A 
archival subset), so there is hope that PDF documents will be readable 
far into the future.


Paul