Jav/Jup technical notes.

[Tony Fearn]

I've just seen this on the internet.
If it's somewhere in our Forum then sorry for doubling up.
If it's not then it's worth the post.
http://jowett.net/Parts/TechNotes-Part24-ServBul.htm
Tony.

[Forumadmin]

That link is a section within Mike Allfrey's Technical Notes whose index page is referenced in the header page of the Technical Sections of JowettTalk. Note there also is a link to the older compilation by Bob Jones containing Bradford and Pre-War bulletins which has been on the website for 15 years.

The Notes and all other technical information are also available in the TOPIC Technical Section of the JowettGallery. This link is meant to be the one stop shop for technical info.
Some other technical information is awaiting curatorship in the TOPIC Legacy section of the Gallery.

The challenge is collecting and linking all technical info together so that it is accessible and can be referenced. Thus some compilation and curatorship (filing and keying) is needed. We could build on the work of these two previous compilers, rather than construct a whole new compilation, or we could construct a new library system. The great advantage of the Gallery is that things can be moved around without losing references, something not possible in most other facilities. Thus technical snippets in Jowettalk, the various clubs' magazines and other sources can be deposited in a relevant section in the Legacy project sections of the Gallery. They can then be checked and improved by others and curated into what we think is the best resting place for them. Subjects can also be checked, discussed and corrected in the Legacy section of JowettTalk which might be more appropriate for some subjects. It is more work for me to move stuff from JT to JG so I would prefer people to use JG.

Some content can be copied to a web accessible place so that it can be searched by the jowett.org Search engine using Google technology. However, once there, it is then not within the JowettGallery system so there is no guarantee that references will remain intact. Such technology could be embedded within JT and JG but the licence would cost an annual fee and I am not convinced that Google would not keep a copy of our labours. (Sorry for the double negative, but I was trying to avoid the word 'steal'!) To illustrate this point, the section you referenced on jowett.net is an HTML version of the Word document in the Gallery.

Changes performed by curators and others recorded in the comments section of each item, would also not be available in this copy unless they were explicitly copied across(an onerous task). Here is and example of such a technical bulletinwhere the Optical Character Recognition has been corrected by a contributor. Someone can scan in the doc, someone else can OCR and someone else can edit.

I am still looking for a content management system to better the Gallery system that we could more easily use together so as to share our collective Jowett minds. The main challenge is keeping the fruits of our labour constrained within our community. I would like that option available even though we might choose to share some of the fruits with the public.