Re: [seul-edu] Re: Building some seul-edu archives summaries

[jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>]

if you do categorize them it might be possible to use that data along with 
some other info to submit it as part of the openarchives project 
http://www.openarchives.org  all they need is basic metadata, most of which 
will be in the e-mail header, and then a category and description.
At 09:33 AM 08/10/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On the subject of the archive, how large are they?  I was
>thinking a searchable CD might be of some use. (personal
>vision)
>
>Bill
>
>Roger Dingledine wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:19:42AM -0400, karl wrote:
> > > Thanks a million for the URL/lead, Roger.
> > > I will skim through www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/,
> > >
> > > How could I help categorize, or organize the mail-archives?
> > >
> > > Would you like to see a crisp page that has direct-links to relevant
> > > email-messages about free software-in-education pro-action?
> > >
> > > That is probably the best action I could make for my writings: to index
> > > all of my citations, sources, and leads in a one-page HTML list.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm missing the idea?
> > >
> > >  --Karl
> >
> > Yes, that's right.
> >
> > There have been a number of previous attempts to do this. They all go a
> > little ways and then stop. So when you're working, you should make sure
> > that every step you take is useful. Think small, actually try to create
> > immediately useful documents. Don't expect to tackle all of the topics
> > and all of the archives -- they're much bigger than you realize.
> >
> > I suspect you will be most useful if you try to build documents to
> > answer your own questions, rather than anticipating what other people
> > "might want". This will a) make you most likely to actually do it, and b)
> > make it definitely useful for somebody out there.
> >
> > Somewhere in the archives is a nice start on this -- I think it was one
> > of the Bill's on here, who came up with a list of topics that it would
> > be nice to summarize. Doug left for vacation today, so he isn't here to
> > remind us who or where it is. Perhaps somebody else on the list can dig
> > this out more easily than I?
> >
> > I would be happy to provide you with all of the seul-edu mails in
> > mbox (mh) format, or also all of the webified mails in a big tarball
> > so you can download and browse them locally. Let me know what would
> > be convenient.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --Roger
>
>--
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