Posted on 11/15/2015 7:54:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Apollo Stowage Lists (ASL) were a product of the late 1960s and early 70s, which meant that for the better part of the decades that followed, they were limited to printed copies. Since the advent of the internet, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston scanned the documents, but as images, the contents still could not be easily referenced by researchers and curators with regard to specific items.
"They are extremely difficult to search or sort – whether by object name, part number, or spacecraft storage location, "Needell wrote in a blog entry announcing the transcription project on Thursday (Nov. 12). "For a long time, we have dreamed of creating a searchable electronic database of this information."
Such a digital archive would help the museum's curators establish a more detailed history of the Apollo artifacts in the Smithsonian's collection.
"And, we hope, such a database, once we can develop a platform for sharing, will also prove invaluable to others, including those who will be tasked with the responsibility of developing policies for the treatment and possible recovery of Apollo artifacts currently residing on the moon,""Needell said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
That’s easy.
Just Google it up, or check Wikipedia.
Then cut and paste.
See, I am qualified for a University degree.
Why don’t they have the Russians do it. NASA has them doing everything else.
You might want to see those scans first before trying to cut an paste.
Know of one outfit that was having trouble making use of scanned records (this was about 15 years ago) — problem was the scans were of too poor a quality to make much use of.
Or they could just use OCR (optical character recognition) software... Smithsonian must truly living in the past.
That was the first thing I thought. Even if you had to do a fair amount of manual cleanup, it’s the kind of thing you could use crowdsourced volunteers to do pretty quickly.
OCR doesn’t always get it done.
Let me help.
Tang.
They better hurry!
Most all of the guys I worked with, who worked Apollo, are dead, and I’m in the next generation and retiring.
They only have 1000 pages left to transcribe...and they have 5500+ transcribers now...???
They seemed to have digitized and indexed 100+ year old documents and made them searchable...:^)
I believe that the Ancestry indexing was done by volunteers.
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