Hey - not bad! It looks great!
There's definitely something up with the PDF encoding of Issue 1. 65 pages should not be 768 MB at any useful resolution! But I understand (?) that you've received these scans from someone else so you don't have any control of the input. The colossal file size may be preventing the Internet Archive from creating a smaller OCR ("PDF with Text") version. The fact that it's extracted the
text means that for the first time, the first issue of PCW is searchable on the web!
Regarding collections, it's more when an admin notices. I've already pinged Jason Scott, and I'll link him to the one(s) you've uploaded so he knows what to do with them. He may make you an admin of the PCW collection so you can upload directly. I see he's moved the files to "magazines".
On the metadata, how about:
- making the file names start with 'pcw', 'personal_computer_world', or similar. That way we can tell what the file is when we download rather than wondering what "1978-04" is.
- for tags, how about adding: pcw, personalcomputerworld
- don't worry about OCR: archive.org does its own for PDF uploads
The slow upload speed is partly down to the file size, but the
ia command-line tool allows batch uploading so you don't need to manually re-key stuff. I don't know what OS you're uploading with: I only really know Linux/Mac/Win10-WSL shell scripting. After setting up your login details with
ia configure, if the files are called PersonalComputerWorldYYYY-MM.pdf, something like:
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ia upload PersonalComputerWorldYYYY-MM PersonalComputerWorldYYYY-MM.pdf \
--metadata="mediatype:texts" --metadata='title:Personal Computer World Magazine, YYYY-MM' \
--metadata='lang:English' --metadata="subject:computers" --metadata="subject:computing" \
--metadata="subject:magazine" --metadata="subject:pcw" --metadata="subject:personalcomputerworld" \
--metadata="subject:UK" --metadata="date:YYYY-MM" \
--metadata="description:<p>Personal Computer World Magazine<br />YYYY-MM</p>"
will upload an item, create it, and populate most of the useful fields in one go.
(I split the lines with \, you might want to avoid that)
contact and sent copies to me, as discussed in previous messages in this thread.