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Old 14th April 2013, 03:55 AM   #1
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Any archivists out there?

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ar·chive noun \ˈär-ˌkīv\
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: a place in which public records or historical documents are preserved; also : the material preserved —often used in plural
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: a repository or collection especially of information
I am the current owner of Hyperwar, a modest effort at collection documents related to WWII. Anybody else doing anything along those lines?
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Old 14th April 2013, 04:52 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Gawdzilla View Post
I am the current owner of Hyperwar, a modest effort at collection documents related to WWII. Anybody else doing anything along those lines?
Could you provide a history of how this site came about and some of the highlights?
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Old 14th April 2013, 04:58 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by MaGZ View Post
Could you provide a history of how this site came about and some of the highlights?
Simple enough, Patrick Clancey and I got started during Desert Shield, when I was at Purdue. People were citing various documents that they had obviously never read or even seen the whole of, so we started putting them online. From there it just got out of control.
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Probably not what you are thinking about, but I have been part of a group scanning in old comic books for archive purposes. It does not sound like much but probably somewhere close to 99% of all the comics published in the US have now been scanned. I personally have a collection of over 100,000 scanned comics and the only reason I don't have more is that I stopped when I realized I could never read all the ones I have in the lifetime I have remaining.
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Probably not what you are thinking about, but I have been part of a group scanning in old comic books for archive purposes. It does not sound like much but probably somewhere close to 99% of all the comics published in the US have now been scanned. I personally have a collection of over 100,000 scanned comics and the only reason I don't have more is that I stopped when I realized I could never read all the ones I have in the lifetime I have remaining.
We're flexible. And if you extend that idea out to the vast amount of material available on WWII you'll get an idea what I feel like. I just installed two 3 terabyte drives as backups for Hyperwar.
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