Subject: Digest for the period 7/28/2003 - 7/29/2003 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:05:03 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Project Gutenbrew, historical beer books online ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jay_Hersh_=28aka_Dr=2E_Beer=AE=29=22?= Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:01:09 -0400 Subject: Project Gutenbrew, historical beer books online Hi Folks, for those beer historians out there (Gregg Smith are you among us?) I have=20 finally gotten my ass in gear and done something in the offing for 5 years.=20 I have gotten Project Gutenbrew started. Project Gutenbrew is inspired by Project Gutenberg. For those that aren't familiar with this, Project Gutenberg is a diverse group of web volunteers=20 who wish to make books with expired copyrights avialable online. They usually either type them in, or scan them and OCR them so that the books are in ASCII text (and thus can be read by text to speech). Project Gutenbrew is my name for doing something similar for historical brewing texts. Unfortunately the time required to type or OCRs these texts=20 is enormous. Instead I've started working with just image files, especially=20 since many of these texts have illustrations. The first offering is 5 years in the making. I first photocopied the book, <100yrs.htm>One Hundred Years of Brewing, A Supplement to the Western Brewer 1903 5 years ago since the only copy available to me was in a library. As I worked at a company that did image scanning and management tools I ran the=20 copies through the high volume scanner and generated 390 tif files for the=20 complete book. Up until recently I lacked the web page space and bandwidth=20 to put them online. I have finally corrected that. So underneath my website at http://www.doctorbeer.com in the line for "amateur interest in the history of brewing" you'll find a link to the directory with these tif images. I had trouble viewing them through Netscape 7.1, but they view fine in IE 5.5. I hope that folks will find this book interesting. I have other texts that=20 I have copied or purchased that I hope to have time to scan in and put online. I also plan to scan in images of brewing musuems and brewery equipment I have taken, especially where it is historically significant as=20 my time allows. thanks, Jay Hersh aka Dr. BeerŪ Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalts Subject: Digest for the period 7/28/2003 - 7/29/2003 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:05:03 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Project Gutenbrew, historical beer books online ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Jay_Hersh_=28aka_Dr=2E_Beer=AE=29=22?= Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:01:09 -0400 Subject: Project Gutenbrew, historical beer books online Hi Folks, for those beer historians out there (Gregg Smith are you among us?) I have=20 finally gotten my ass in gear and done something in the offing for 5 years.=20 I have gotten Project Gutenbrew started. Project Gutenbrew is inspired by Project Gutenberg. For those that aren't familiar with this, Project Gutenberg is a diverse group of web volunteers=20 who wish to make books with expired copyrights avialable online. They usually either type them in, or scan them and OCR them so that the books are in ASCII text (and thus can be read by text to speech). Project Gutenbrew is my name for doing something similar for historical brewing texts. Unfortunately the time required to type or OCRs these texts=20 is enormous. Instead I've started working with just image files, especially=20 since many of these texts have illustrations. The first offering is 5 years in the making. I first photocopied the book, <100yrs.htm>One Hundred Years of Brewing, A Supplement to the Western Brewer 1903 5 years ago since the only copy available to me was in a library. As I worked at a company that did image scanning and management tools I ran the=20 copies through the high volume scanner and generated 390 tif files for the=20 complete book. Up until recently I lacked the web page space and bandwidth=20 to put them online. I have finally corrected that. So underneath my website at http://www.doctorbeer.com in the line for "amateur interest in the history of brewing" you'll find a link to the directory with these tif images. I had trouble viewing them through Netscape 7.1, but they view fine in IE 5.5. I hope that folks will find this book interesting. I have other texts that=20 I have copied or purchased that I hope to have time to scan in and put online. I also plan to scan in images of brewing musuems and brewery equipment I have taken, especially where it is historically significant as=20 my time allows. thanks, Jay Hersh aka Dr. BeerŪ Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalts