Comments on: A special collection http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/ "Hitch your wagon to a star." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:34:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: BenjaminCrowder.com » Blog Archive » http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-38704 Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:22:50 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-38704 [...] I’m digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (I’ve blogged about it on Top of the Mountains here and here). I’ve been chunking the text into verses (I’m in Mosiah 6 right now, 136 pages out of 483), and I’m also slowly cleaning up the OCRed text (I’m in 1 Nephi 4, I think). Pretty soon I’ll cook up a web interface for it and start uploading chapters as I finish them. And once all that’s done, I’ll import the whole thing into LaTeX and release newly typeset versions (both with verses and without). [...] […] I’m digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (I’ve blogged about it on Top of the Mountains here and here). I’ve been chunking the text into verses (I’m in Mosiah 6 right now, 136 pages out of 483), and I’m also slowly cleaning up the OCRed text (I’m in 1 Nephi 4, I think). Pretty soon I’ll cook up a web interface for it and start uploading chapters as I finish them. And once all that’s done, I’ll import the whole thing into LaTeX and release newly typeset versions (both with verses and without). […]

]]> by: Ben http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36842 Mon, 28 May 2007 20:49:33 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36842 J: It's funny how things work out, isn't it. And Project Gutenberg is a book lover's heaven. It's the only place I was able to find David Lindsay's <i>Voyage to Arcturus,</i> in fact. (Well, we <i>do</i> have a copy here at BYU, but it's in Special Collections. And I didn't try to ILL one in. Project Gutenberg was far more accessible than either, in any case.) James: I know. :) J: It’s funny how things work out, isn’t it. And Project Gutenberg is a book lover’s heaven. It’s the only place I was able to find David Lindsay’s Voyage to Arcturus, in fact. (Well, we do have a copy here at BYU, but it’s in Special Collections. And I didn’t try to ILL one in. Project Gutenberg was far more accessible than either, in any case.)

James: I know. :)

]]> by: James Meyer http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36593 Fri, 25 May 2007 15:16:05 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36593 Ben - thats the coolest thing ever. Wow! Thats all I have to say about that. Ben - thats the coolest thing ever. Wow! Thats all I have to say about that.

]]> by: Top of the Mountains » Blog Archive » Project Cymru http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36590 Fri, 25 May 2007 14:10:24 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36590 [...] I&#8217;ve decided to call this Welsh Book of Mormon digitization endeavor &#8220;Project Cymru.&#8221; (Cymru is the Welsh word for Wales.) The funny thing is that the name ends up being eerily similar to Project Cumorah, the reader&#8217;s edition of the Book of Mormon which I edited and published last August. Coincidence? ;) [...] […] I’ve decided to call this Welsh Book of Mormon digitization endeavor “Project Cymru.” (Cymru is the Welsh word for Wales.) The funny thing is that the name ends up being eerily similar to Project Cumorah, the reader’s edition of the Book of Mormon which I edited and published last August. Coincidence? ;) […]

]]> by: J http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36588 Fri, 25 May 2007 13:52:44 +0000 http://www.topofthemountains.net/2007/05/24/a-special-collection/#comment-36588 Heather applied for a job in special collections about the same time she applied in IAP. She had already started in IAP when she was contacted for the other. She came home with very mixed feelings. If things had gone the other way, she would have graduated with your class. She would not be in England now; she would not have her minor in Family History; she would have never met you and several lives would have been different. I am happy that you are finding your job delicious. I am finding your websites delicious. I just discovered Project Gutenberg on your River Glen Press site and discovered that I have a shelf and a half of books that can be added to their collection. I was planning on making electronic copies of the books for all my children anyway. So, again, thanks!!! Heather has found records for some of our ancestors and judging from the smile on Heather’s face as she is wading in the English Channel, I think everything worked out just the way it was supposed to. Heather applied for a job in special collections about the same time she applied in IAP. She had already started in IAP when she was contacted for the other. She came home with very mixed feelings. If things had gone the other way, she would have graduated with your class. She would not be in England now; she would not have her minor in Family History; she would have never met you and several lives would have been different.

I am happy that you are finding your job delicious. I am finding your websites delicious. I just discovered Project Gutenberg on your River Glen Press site and discovered that I have a shelf and a half of books that can be added to their collection. I was planning on making electronic copies of the books for all my children anyway. So, again, thanks!!!

Heather has found records for some of our ancestors and judging from the smile on Heather’s face as she is wading in the English Channel, I think everything worked out just the way it was supposed to.

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