Dear Bob and all,


Thanks for pinpointing these mistakes. We debug already for a couple of
weeks, and it is good to see you checked this. At present we are already
working on the apparently 3 "missing" years. This will be fixed soon.

As for the OCR, this is unavoidable today. At the rate this is ameliorating
we will adapt as technology advances and put a warning note for the ones who
want to use it directly as scientific resource.

Anybody having problems with one or another defect in the system is invited
to contact

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so that our webmasters can immediately research and debug/repair/ameliorate
the tool.

The HSN archive has been consulted several thousand times since it is online
and we want also to express our thanks to all of you and the registered
members for the enthusiasm.


Guido & Philippe.





On 3/22/04 10:42 AM, "Bob Dayle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> To those interested in the on-line Hawaiian Shell News "archive"...
>
> I was glad to hear of the availability of all those years of HSN information
> and
> went to check it out when I found some time.
>
> As a service to those wanting to use this 'new' resource, and with some
> disappointment, I must warn you that there is considerably less information
> available than the "44 years" mentioned at the web site. Also, there has been
> no
> apparent effort to 'clean up' the Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
> generated
> text on which the Search Engine relies for results.
>
> With an obvious interest in the Cypraea, I soon found that 11 pages have
> errors
> where "Cypraea" comes up as "Cwraea". I am not inclined to map out all of the
> possible misspellings of all of the generic and specific names.
>
> Also, there is a large lacuna from July, 1988 through December, 1991. No
> issues
> are retrieveable. Some other years are missing months and there may be other
> years like 1988 which shows all 12 months available but actually have fewer.
>
> Hopefully, these problems are some technical glitch and not inherent to the
> CD-ROMs which hold the HSN issues. If printed copies of the missing issues are
> needed, I will be more than happy to lend them out.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Bob Dayle, webmaster, www.cowrys.org
> http://www.cowrys.org/archive/
>
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