Comments on: How Much Will It Cost! http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/ | games | online learning | digital history | Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: towens6 http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-24 towens6 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:31:06 +0000 http://trevorowens.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/how-much-will-it-cost/#comment-24 @ nails63: Thanks for the kind words! It is always nice to hear. @proutj: Feel free to email me anytime. My Zotero address is probably the easiest. trevor@zotero.org, but Professor Cohen is probably a better bet for more definitive info on searching. @Susanld: I think your right on standards. It would probably be easy enough to scrape out the general categories. I do think someone should build a state standard api or plugin tool though and if I had the cash it would be neat to assemble it for anyone to use. @proutj again: It would depend. Are they PDF's you scanned or are they from another repository, there is a chance that if they came from another repository they already have been OCR'ed, but if they did come from somewhere else there are some serious rights issues. Probably a good bet to ask professor cohen. @ nails63: Thanks for the kind words! It is always nice to hear.

@proutj: Feel free to email me anytime. My Zotero address is probably the easiest. trevor@zotero.org, but Professor Cohen is probably a better bet for more definitive info on searching.

@Susanld: I think your right on standards. It would probably be easy enough to scrape out the general categories. I do think someone should build a state standard api or plugin tool though and if I had the cash it would be neat to assemble it for anyone to use.

@proutj again: It would depend. Are they PDF’s you scanned or are they from another repository, there is a chance that if they came from another repository they already have been OCR’ed, but if they did come from somewhere else there are some serious rights issues. Probably a good bet to ask professor cohen.

]]> By: proutj http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-23 proutj Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:19:45 +0000 http://trevorowens.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/how-much-will-it-cost/#comment-23 Trevor Your blog on costs helped me focus on several issues for my proposed archival site. One of the threshold questions is conversion of the over 3,000 newspaper articles that I assume I can cache (right use of word?) and move to my web site. These are currently in PDF format. So my understanding from reading Professor Cohen's book is that I would ave to have someone convert to machine readable text in order to be available for a site search engine to work effectively. Am I right? if so what would be the going rate for this sort of conversion. Trevor
Your blog on costs helped me focus on several issues for my proposed archival site. One of the threshold questions is conversion of the over 3,000 newspaper articles that I assume I can cache (right use of word?) and move to my web site. These are currently in PDF format. So my understanding from reading Professor Cohen’s book is that I would ave to have someone convert to machine readable text in order to be available for a site search engine to work effectively. Am I right? if so what would be the going rate for this sort of conversion.

]]> By: susanld http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-25 susanld Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:43:24 +0000 http://trevorowens.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/how-much-will-it-cost/#comment-25 Just to note one point in your budget variables, my experience researching state standards leads me to conclude that any time you spent "integrating" state standards into your game sites would be wasted. The standards differ in wording across the various states, but the common denominator is topics in the curriculum. You can determine the topics in most standards documents by going to a high end history state like CA or NY (which has a very detailed outline), and a low-end state such as TX (which has a more general outline), just as two examples. Once you know the topics, you can locate games that correspond to those topics. That will certainly be sufficient. Just to note one point in your budget variables, my experience researching state standards leads me to conclude that any time you spent “integrating” state standards into your game sites would be wasted. The standards differ in wording across the various states, but the common denominator is topics in the curriculum. You can determine the topics in most standards documents by going to a high end history state like CA or NY (which has a very detailed outline), and a low-end state such as TX (which has a more general outline), just as two examples.
Once you know the topics, you can locate games that correspond to those topics. That will certainly be sufficient.

]]> By: proutj http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-27 proutj Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:26:14 +0000 http://trevorowens.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/how-much-will-it-cost/#comment-27 Trevor Your references to various ways to construct a search engine were very helpful. You are very conversant in the construction of web sites and I might ask for a "counseling" session at some point. What I am having difficulty with is the conversion of what I know I want to archive on the site and what my digital requirements would be (i.e., languages, formats, etc.) Thanks. Jerry Trevor
Your references to various ways to construct a search engine were very helpful. You are very conversant in the construction of web sites and I might ask for a “counseling” session at some point. What I am having difficulty with is the conversion of what I know I want to archive on the site and what my digital requirements would be (i.e., languages, formats, etc.) Thanks. Jerry

]]> By: nails63 http://www.trevorowens.org/2007/11/how-much-will-it-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-26 nails63 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:16:17 +0000 http://trevorowens.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/how-much-will-it-cost/#comment-26 If you are leaving anything out, it's beyond me. Sounds like you have it all set to go. Good job. If you are leaving anything out, it’s beyond me. Sounds like you have it all set to go. Good job.

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