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Keying-in scanned manuscript text



I am working with an agency that has scanned (starting some years back and with minimal associated metadata linked to the scans at this point) some 600-700 logs (about 100-200 pgs each) of the original land surveys of Wisconsin.  The organization of these logs is complicated due to the ways large scale surveys were conducted--multiple surveyors surveying via various somewhat haphazard paths over many years to cover the entirety of a state.

In order to make this information more useable (and to develop the possibilities for internal and external links), the agency is weighing the relative costs and benefits of either isimply ndexing the contents directly or keying in the entire text to develop a broader capacity for ultimate searching and linking.  For a variety of complicated reasons, indexing is seeming the less feasible (even economically) and potentially more limiting of the two options.  Even so, it would help to talk with anyone with similar experience or expertise to lend to the matter.

Does anyone know of one or more situations where an organization has opted to key  full text of scanned manuscripts rather than merely index them directly from the mss?

Thanks, in advance,
Sharlane Grant
Preservation Officer
State Historical Society of Wisconsin
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
608/264-6474

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