[Lnc-business] LP History and archiving

Tue Dec 13 18:56:42 EST 2016

Ken, it sounds like you might want to be on this committee ;)

What I am hoping is to get volunteers interested, with a small committee
providing some oversight.  I do not have time to do actual archiving myself
as I have CO commitments and am saving my future time for other things,
such as seeking one of the LNC appointments to the Platform Committee.
Alicia will remember that when I first got in touch with her it was about
applying to be on last year's committee, but I unfortunately missed the
deadline.

I am going to begin exploring where some digital archives might exist
already- and hopefully once the IT Committee is fully in force, we can get
LPedia going and make this a truly grassroots crowd effort.

I am beginning to think that any historical/archive committee might be a
good management oversight for LPedia.  Just throwing things out there, and
hope to keep this conversation going to get some ideas.

-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Ken Moellman <ken.moellman at lpky.org> wrote:

>
> I've heard about the audio recordings.  We may need to find some money to
> have those professionally digitized.  Ideally we could get these
> transcribed to text, as well, so they could be searched, as well, in
> addition to the obvious benefit for the hearing-impaired.  I bet there
> would be some donors who would contribute to that project.
>
> And yes, planning would be necessary.  Would we want to put the audio on
> YouTube or some other free storage platform? Or do we want to maintain
> control on our own server/repository?  And more questions I can't even
> think of at the moment.
>
> ---
>
> Ken C. Moellman, Jr.
> LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative
> LPKY Judicial Committee
>
>
>
> On 2016-12-13 11:20, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
>
> I will be getting with you on that, and I agree that LPedia seems like the
> most likely candidate.  We are a bit away from getting that off the ground
> but the archiving and planning efforts can start earlier.  There is a whole
> storage unit as well with more boxes including audio recordings of old
> conventions.
>
> --
> *In Liberty,*
> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>
>
> On Tuesday, December 13, 2016, Ken Moellman <ken.moellman at lpky.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I applaud your efforts here, Caryn Ann.  We must not lose sight of our
>> history.  I had the same thoughts when I was in the building on Saturday
>> evening.  All of these file cabinets full of great history of the party
>> should be digitized and archived. Disk space is cheaper than real estate,
>> and electronic copies mean we can have an easy backup of all the data.
>>
>> Given that this is to be a group effort, I would suggest that LPedia is
>> probably the right place to place all of this information.  The Wiki format
>> better allows for collaborative volunteer projects.
>>
>> I can train some people on how I scanned in and used OCR to transcribe
>> the old platforms for LPedia.  It's pretty straight forward, and makes the
>> content searchable.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Ken C. Moellman, Jr.
>> LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative
>> LPKY Judicial Committee
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2016-12-13 08:14, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:
>>
>> Yes that is what I was thinking but perhaps some their ideas might come
>> out thinking out of the box.  Obviously this is a passion of mine, but if I
>> am alone in this, alas, it is a dream that will die.
>>
>> You knkw me better than most LNC members (as does Nick) and knows this
>> isn't a passing fancy.  LP history and platforms are my passions.
>>
>> This ties in nicely into the LP archive site and LPedia.
>>
>> I want to thank Wes who went above and beyond in escorting myself and
>> Susan Hogarth in surveying what is available.  What we have is much more
>> extensive than the general party members think there is.
>>
>> Digitizing may also save us space.  I am hoping some caucuses might find
>> such a project as a way to give back to the Party in a good will
>> non-factional project.
>>
>> Big shocker but I did chair the LPCO Historical Committee - we are still
>> archiving but have some wonderful CO history here:
>> http://www.lpcolorado.org/archives
>>
>> Mostly thanks to LPCO activist David Aitken.  Unfortunately a lot was
>> lost due to spoilage from mouse urine and feces.  The national records are
>> in excellent shape.
>>
>>
>> --
>> *In Liberty,*
>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
>> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>> Harlos at LP.org
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org/>
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 13, 2016, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Caryn Ann,
>>>
>>> I think your best bet would be to ask Wes to put out a call for
>>> volunteer archivists, librarians and others who
>>> might be interested in this project and you get to chair the new LP
>>> Archives Committee.
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> Sam Goldstein
>>> Libertarian National Committee
>>> Member at Large
>>> 8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101
>>> Indianapolis IN 46260
>>> 317-850-0726 <(317)%20850-0726> Phone
>>> 317-582-1773 <(317)%20582-1773> Fax
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <
>>> carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I spent part of yesterday going through the file cabinets at HQ and
>>>> some boxes in the external story unit with an eye towards trying to get a
>>>> group of volunteers together to start electronically preserving some or all
>>>> of this information - it would be ripe for preservation on a newly launched
>>>> LPedia.  Some of it already exists however- so I am in that information
>>>> gathering stage as well. My thoughts are to tackle the most general
>>>> interest items first such as, obviously LP News which we have going back to
>>>> 1972.
>>>>
>>>> I would appreciate any thoughts, any persons who might be interested,
>>>> any referrals of persons who might have records already scanned etc.
>>>>
>>>> This is a very preliminary start and whether or not anything gets done
>>>> is if I can find other interested persons, though even if not, I will at
>>>> least work on trying to get the complete LP news up.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *In Liberty,*
>>>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>>>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
>>>> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>>>> Harlos at LP.org
>>>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>>>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
>>>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>>>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> *In Liberty,*
>> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska,
>> Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
>> Harlos at LP.org
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
>>
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> --
> *In Liberty,*
> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
>
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-- 
*In Liberty,*
*Caryn Ann Harlos*
Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
<http://www.lpcolorado.org>
Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
<http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
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