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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At the qathet Museum and Archives we’re digitizing some text records that have some creative/historic spellings or spellings similar to IPA. For example, Sliammon is written Slai<span style='color:#040C28'>äman. Has anyone had any experience making IPA characters searchable with OCR. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#040C28'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#040C28'>This also had me thinking – how do different archives deal with multiple spellings of historic place names? Do you create a research aid for researchers or make notes to accompany each archival record? I am thinking for example, of someone who wants to research Tla’amin history – they might have results by keyword searching Tla’amin, Sliammon, </span>Slai<span style='color:#040C28'>äman, or other variations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#040C28'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#040C28'>Curious to hear about different methods,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#040C28'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Ava Hansen</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Museum Manager</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>qathet Museum & Archives</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>4790 Marine Avenue</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>PO Box 42 Powell River, BC, V8A 4Z5</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>(604) 485-2222 <a href="http://www.qathetmuseum.ca/"><span style='color:blue'>www.qathetmuseum.ca</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><img border=0 width=112 height=100 style='width:1.1666in;height:1.0416in' id="x__x005f_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image001.png@01DBB531.2D21B3D0" alt="cid:image001.png@01D777F9.08D0E970"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='color:#1F4E79;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>The qathet Museum & Archives is located on the traditional territory of the Tla’amin Nation.</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>