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- | Sydney Bush Walkers (SBW) has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. A project has been running to digitise the old SBW club magazines, and to make them available for searching on the web. | + | {{ cover_199101.png?400}}[[https://sbw.org.au|Sydney Bush Walkers]] (SBW) is NSW's oldest continuing bushwalking club, formed in 1927. |
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- | The project is a massive amount of work for one person. One of the aims of the project is to distribute the work, and allow as many members as possible to work on it. | + | |
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- | The first stage of the project is to scan all the pre digital magazines to PDF. This stage is well underway, with around 30% of the magazines complete, and more in progress. | + | |
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- | In parallel, the second stage is kicking off. This stage is to OCR the PDFs, and to edit and tidy the text files that are produced. The main purpose of this wiki is to allow anyone to edit the text files. If every SBW member tidied up just one issue, the entire history of SBW would be digitised just like that. | + | |
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- | **No experience is necessary.** If you can read, you can certainly help! To help out with the project, just [[http:// | + | |
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- | To have a look at the work that has been done, check out the [[magazines|tracking page]]. | + | |
+ | It has a long and proud history, and the club magazines go back to the early 1930s. This history site started as the **[[magazine_project|SBW magazine project]]** to digitise the old SBW club magazines. It has since expanded to hold other historic documents that may be too niche for the main [[https:// | ||
+ | As well as the **[[magazines|historic magazines]]**, | ||
+ | Other documents of interest include **[[walks_programs|historic walks programs]]**, |
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