The Journal Index project has a long way to go, but it is underway and we will need volunteers.
The work at the moment is in Excel. There are 42 years of Journals (1979-2020), of which 2 are done and 5 more underway by the Education Committee. We will use these early ones to refine the process used for the rest of the years.
Volunteers will be asked to index a year. Each volunteer will receive a pdf containing 12 issues of the journal, as well as a corresponding Excel spreadsheet and a 5-page Indexing Guidelines document. The work consists of correcting authornames and page numbers, scanning each technical article and writing a short description of what's in the article. Each year contains about 80 technical articles.
Care to volunteer?
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Jason Kanter
Lynnwood WA
425-830-1561
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-09-2020 02:42
From: Blaine Hebert
Subject: Journal Index?
What is the current status of the indexing for our Journal articles?
I greatly appreciated the Excel file that was recently produced, how far along (or back) is the project going?
Is this still in Excel (which I would prefer)?
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Blaine Hebert
Duarte CA
626-795-5170
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