Now that hardware replacements and follow up tasks are mostly complete for the DP production server, I'm taking a moment to at least partially respond to several comments and remarks recently brought up regarding archival materials for projects completed at DP. don kretz wrote on 2010-04-20 at 15:35
Upload in as complete form as possible the matching image and text files so future modification and adaptation is possible. There's no loss to DP by doing so; and the risk is that over time they are quite capable of losing track of them.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. :) The DP test server is an Internet Archive machine and is backed up within their infrastructure. I also personally maintain a remote backup of all archived project files to dedicated storage here. Having said that, some of the earliest DP material (produced on the server in charlz's garage) is not archived in the OLS. This gap in the archives encompasses 422 known projects. At last word from charlz, he has this material, but unfortunately has not yet provided it to be incorporated into the archives. bowerbird wrote on 2010-04-20 at 20:35
first, it looks like i was wrong when i said that d.p. had stopped maintaining the "ols", so of course my "reason" for their having stopped maintaining it was also incorrect. (or one could say it's _no_longer_ correct, but i do believe it was correct at one time.)
charlz was the original and sole maintainer of the DP archives. When he ended his active participation with DP, the archives were unmaintained until I made time to reconstruct the undocumented procedures for moving project files over and recording them in the database. Since then, they have been continuously maintained and the current process documented for the benefit of future caretakers. don kretz wrote on 2010-04-20 at 22:12
Available Formats: Display of images from this source has not been permitted.
DP abides by the stated wishes of the image sources with respect to public redisplay of images from various sources. For sources which do not wish images from their efforts redistributed, the files from DP are retained in the archives, but are not 'made available' in accordance with these agreements. Kevin Pulliam wrote on 2010-04-21 at 00:07
On the Open Library System, I note that high resolution gray-scale scans (at least for the one project I checked) are not archived, ... I also note that there is no 'bulk' download function to get a zip of all the files associated with a text.
The hires scans are archived, however the OLS code and UI are feature-poor. Availability of hires and zip file sets are among the desired features, but development of the OLS is not currently a priority item. David (donovan)