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FAQ
MOA FAQ
Can I download a whole book?
We make available for downloading the uncorrected plain text of the books. Locate the volume that you are interested in, view the bibliographic citation and click on the "note on viewing the plain text of this volume." After you have read the note, you will see a download link. When you click on the download link, you will be presented with a dialog box that gives you the option of
saving the file. Save the file to your computer; you will then be able to open it in your browser or a word processor. Please be aware
that some of these
texts are as long as 1,000 pages and will take a long time to download, particularly over a modem. Such a large download may also crash
your Web browser. Also, please note that for an entire text the plain text is not broken up or formatted by page -- it is one big block of text.
Can I have access to the text instead of just the page images?
Go to the desired page and choose "view as
text" from the view as menu in the toolbar at the
top. You will be able to page through the text until you choose
another "view as" option (such as 75% or thumbnail).
I keep losing my results list. How can I get back to it?
On most recent versions of Web browsers, you should be able to return to
your search results by using your browser's Back button. If you cannot do
this, you might want to open up the results in a new browser window that
you can refer to. On a Mac, click and hold down on the page to get another
window -- choose the "new window with this frame" item from the little menu
that pops up. With Windows you use the right mouse button to click and
select the "open frame in a new window" option.
How do you convert the TIFFs to GIFs?
The MOA
project stores only TIFF G4 (bitonal) 600dpi images online. When you select a page, the
TIFF is converted at that moment to the desired level of GIF. The software that performs
this operation is called tif2gif
and was written by Doug Orr at the University of Michigan. Binaries and source code are available online.
I searched a word I knew was on one of the pages, but I got "No hits". Why did this happen?
The MOA
page images are used to generate OCR for searching the collection. OCR is still an
imperfect process. Most words are captured accurately, but approximately 1% of the
characters come out wrong. Since words are frequently repeated, and since
some search capability is better than none, we hope this provides a useful
avenue into the collection.
Why are some of the pages I saw skewed on the page?
Materials are currently undergoing a
"Quality Control" process. Pages with an unacceptable degree of skew will be reprocessed.
Why is some of the bibliographic information incorrect?
Some errors are cataloging errors, others are errors created in incorporating the bibliographic materials into MOA. Materials are currently
undergoing a "Quality Control" process. We will correct these problems over the coming
months.
How do I get a complete list of titles in the Cornell MOA system?
A browseable list, organized by author/title, is provided on the MOA "Browse" page.
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