Over the past couple of weeks we've updated and completed the first step in our Archive section. We've uploaded the covers and at least five spreads from each year from 1990 to 2008. Roughly, we've uploaded about 170MB of JPG's for these different books. And we're just over the five-spread preliminary goal. So, you can imagine how big these pages will be.

This isn't abnormal, we expect it, but we didn't expect our website to have a 200MB limit. Since we're a "cavern site," a server dedicated to departmental pages, we have that limit as default.

Now we're working with IT to increase that limit. Also, we want to incorporate some fancy SEO features for these pages, and that doesn't happen with static JPGs. So, the next logical step is to turn these physical pages into OCR-ready PDF's. But we can't just plug those files into our javascript interface.

Issuu seems to be the answer, and we're incorporating it over the long run. First, we have to figure out if it will truly work for us, if it's adaptable to our large amount of archives, and if we can get the correct PDF's scanned.

That's my update, stay tuned for some innovation on the Archive front. Again, remember that I'm blown away by the fact that we have the section anyway!