[Joeaksa]

Ladies and Gents,

Need ideas for a project. I am involved with a group in saving some antique airplanes build in the 1930's and 1940's. We have been working with the factory who produced them. They allowed us to use their commercial scanning machine to scan the original blueprints for almost every model made, which will allow them to be rebuilt, restored and kept in the air.

We have about 5000 blueprints that have been scanned, from 11 x 14 up to blueprints that are 4' by 8' in size. All are either .TIF or Adobe PDF format.

First, does anyone have any suggestions on how to organize something like this? 100 documents is one thing but 5000+ blueprints is something that needs organization and some sort of database to find specific drawings then a way to lead you to the drawing you are looking for.

Second we believe that it will fit on one, if not two DVD disks. We are going to be sending these out to the members of our association and while we know that eventually these will be copied and handed around but would appreciate any suggestions for either copy writing the information or slowing people down in making copies and selling them on Ebay?

Here is a small example of what we are working with. The first one is 300k while the smallest of the .TIF or .PDF drawings is 4 megs each. Some are 500 gigs each!








Thx,

Joe