[MassHistPres] Update on MHC’s Scanning Project

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jade mortimer
heartwood window restoration
hawley, ma 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter STOTT 
  To: MassHistPres at cs.umb.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 1:36 PM
  Subject: [MassHistPres] Update on MHC’s Scanning Project


  As long-time readers of this Listserve will recall, since 2008 the
  Massachusetts Historical Commission has been scanning the roughly
  160,000 Inventory records and 4200 National Register nominations for
  properties in Massachusetts.

  Yesterday MHC completed the latest modifications to the MACRIS online
  database, with new icons and revised explanatory help pages. Three new
  icons should better display the availability of scanned Inventory and
  National Register nomination files.  A new icon indicates if the NR
  file refers to a Multiple Property Submission (MPS) document.

  Additional modifications are planned for the near future, but this is
  an opportune moment to update users of the progress in MHC’s scanning
  project since it began in 2008.  As of completion of the current
  scanning contract at the beginning of May 2012, MHC will have scanned
  two thirds (66%) of the Inventory records in its files – representing
  all towns between Hadley and Yarmouth.  Every record is represented by
  a multi-page PDF file as well as a separate JPG image of the primary
  photograph attached to each inventory form.  Each PDF file is
  optically character recognized, making possible word searches across
  each document, and ultimately (although not yet) across the entire
  body of inventory records.

  Prior to scanning, we have also worked with historical commissions to
  update street addresses, where towns may have assigned or revised
  house numbers since the original town inventories were undertaken. In
  some cases, we have also been able to bring local commissions’
  inventory files into sync with MHC’s copies.  While we are happy to
  supply historical commissions with CDs of the scanned files, we also
  encourage towns to link to MACRIS, from MHC’s own web page.   The West
  Tisbury Historical Commission recently made this link, and also posted
  on YouTube an informative video on using the MACRIS database (see
  http://www.westtisbury-ma.gov/Boards/loc-hist-comm.html).

  As of the beginning of April, MHC has also scanned and made available
  on line roughly 2200 National Register nominations, including
  accompanying maps and photographs. This represents all nominations
  prepared since the year 2000 and many from earlier years.


  Peter Stott
  Preservation Planner
  Massachusetts Historical Commission
  pstott at sec.state.ma.us
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