One of the things that would be useful would be the archiving of vintage computer magazines in the format of bibliographical databases. This would allow the following: a) search the contexts of the magazine for keywords; b) reference the found articles.
Currently, vintage computing archiving takes the form of the following:
a) Magazines (PDF)
Atarimania - http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-antic_20.html
https://archive.org/details/antic-magazine?&sort=titleSorter&page=2
b) Magazines (text content)
http://www.atarimagazines.com/antic/
c) Magazines (bibtex)
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/byte.html
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/
What would be useful is an archive of the Article references (similar to a PubMed.org searchable database):
a) BibTex reference created for each article in the magazine
b) PDF (text-readable) derived for only that article
Why would this be useful?
a) Quickly able to search for articles about a specific topic (i.e. "Indus" disk drives) and quickly see all the articles ever written on them.
b) Trend articles (i.e. "tape drives" vs "disk drives" broken down by year) -- see the adoption of technology.
The plan would be to place all this information into Synthesis (www.synthesis.info) to see the patterns and trends in the computer non-academic literature.
So, how to proceed? The magazines to start indexing are:
Atari 8-bit/16 bit
Currently, vintage computing archiving takes the form of the following:
a) Magazines (PDF)
Atarimania - http://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazine-antic_20.html
https://archive.org/details/antic-magazine?&sort=titleSorter&page=2
b) Magazines (text content)
http://www.atarimagazines.com/antic/
c) Magazines (bibtex)
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/byte.html
ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/
What would be useful is an archive of the Article references (similar to a PubMed.org searchable database):
a) BibTex reference created for each article in the magazine
b) PDF (text-readable) derived for only that article
Why would this be useful?
a) Quickly able to search for articles about a specific topic (i.e. "Indus" disk drives) and quickly see all the articles ever written on them.
b) Trend articles (i.e. "tape drives" vs "disk drives" broken down by year) -- see the adoption of technology.
The plan would be to place all this information into Synthesis (www.synthesis.info) to see the patterns and trends in the computer non-academic literature.
So, how to proceed? The magazines to start indexing are:
Atari 8-bit/16 bit
- Antic
- Analog
- Amiga World
- Byte
- Dr. Dobbs
- Computer Language
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