Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Sat, 07/23/2016 - 16:51
Does the AAVSO keep an archive of old Alert Notices in text format? I've seen the page at:
http://www.aavso.org/alert-notice-archive
but this is html and not text. I'm looking for a quick way to download 100's of alert notices in text format so I recycle my old paper copies.
Thanks,
Bob
Hi Bob,
I'm sorry, but we do not have a complete TEXT archive of Alert (or Special) Notices. I do have plain text copies of the most recent ~75 notices I could give you, but not the earlier ones.
For each AN, you could copy and paste the web page content into a Word document - that would preserve most of the formatting and give you an electronic copy. It's not that quick, but I don't think scanning the paper copy to a searchable pdf, or using really good OCR software on a scanner, would be much faster.
The earliest Alert Notices (1-136) are not available through the archive page yet, but html versions of them exist. Please contact me off-list if you would like to talk about them.
Best wishes,
Elizabeth
Thanks Elizabeth for the quick reply. I need numbers ~160 through 260 in text form. I'll experiment with my browser and Word or Notepad. I just wanted to check if they were already available as text before I spent the time doing this.
Bob