[SPG_Active_Members] Your letter of 29th July

[Richard P. Gabriel]

At 8:15 AM -0700 8/24/09, Paul McJones wrote:
>  > One important question for me is whether we would have access to the
>>  materials. Stoyan's collection contains physical objects. We would
>>  need to take some steps to preserve them digitally as well, I believe.
>
>Here's the situation as I understand it; presumably the CHM folks on this
>list will confirm, correct, or expand on it.
>
>Because of the space requirements for the upcoming Timeline exhibit, CHM
>has moved the archives to an offsite facility about 10 miles away. However
>it should be possible to set up a work area at the Museum in Mountain View
>capable of holding most if not all of the Stoyan collection. This would
>provide us access, for example, for photographing physical objects,
>scanning photographs, and cataloging and scanning documents.
>
>
>Paul

This sounds good.

Has the collection arrived yet? I am away until right after Labor Day 
but have some time after that up until the end of October to look it 
over with you and try to see what we have. My information is that it 
is light on source code and long on papers and photos.

I have a good camera (Canon 5d Mk II) so I should be able to capture 
the physical objects. We'll need good lighting. I've never 
photographed for archival purposes, so would need to learn about 
that. If the CHM doesn't have a good scanner, I have a decent one.

I will be able to do a decent amount of work, but my best 
contribution is knowing what we're looking at and how it relates to 
other materials.

			-rpg-