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Revision as of 12:43, 21 January 2012
The Dominion Atlantic Railway
This Nova Scotia Railway conglomerate is one of the more important pages out of Nova Scotia history. The D.A.R. served as the catalyst in the development of the economies of the Annapolis Valley Apple Industry and the Nova Scotia tourism industry and provided the vital link that connected the western end of Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Halifax and Truro.
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- Thanks to the Admiral Digby Museum for some great footage of the DAR from the 50's!
The Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative Wiki Project
The entire DAR DPI web site including this Wiki is my personal donation to the study and preservation of the D.A.R. This railway has always held a fascination for me yet it's history has been elusive; confined to a few words in most publications and lacking in breadth and depth. Thankfully a few authors have taken the time to truly wade in, yet there is a much larger folklore component to the D.A.R. that keeps it's memory alive. By harnessing the technology of the internet and software like this Wiki, I hope we may eventually assemble the bits and pieces that everyone seems to have; their own little "slice" of the D.A.R.; and together hopefully we can build a true panorama of the railway everyone holds dear.
Museum Affiliations
This wiki is a part of the Middleton Memory Lane Railway Museum site and is intended to be a repository of digitized artefacts at the museum. The wiki's other mandate is to provide as complete a history as possible to serve as a private study resource for museum volunteers on site and on the internet.
We have also forged personal relationships with other museums and societies with which we work closely and with others who have contributed material from their archives to our wiki:
- Nova Scotia Museum
- Kings Historical Society
- Wolfville Historical Society
- Yarmouth Historical Society
- Canadian Pacific Historical Association
- Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society
Wiki Status
January 21, 2012
Many changes in the last few weeks. Created a new side menu item for the Photo Galleries and took it off the Main Page. Many new uploaded articles. Improving references and footnotes using the "Cite" extension. Added new extension for "No Titles" and started taking off titles and table of contents on Primary and secondary categories. The result is cleaner looking pages easier to read. Many new cross references and finally finished annotation all my uploaded B&W photos from my SGM-Bxxx series. A few problems with thumbnailing. the GD library won't thumbnail large photos but have been unable so far to get ImageMagick to work correctly. This is desirable so we can strt to thumbnail JP2s and PDFs. More to come yet this month.
January 5, 2012
Wow. We've been on-line now for FIVE years. I just doesn't seem possible but here we are. Happy 5th birthday DAR DPI!
Thanks to all for your edits and contributions. The detail keeps growing and the granularity gets finer and finer as we fill out existing categories and add many more. We especially enjoyed the many DAR articles and current day photos of still existng DAR structures and roadbed that came in this year.
A note that a handful of new editing and performance functions have been added (and fixed) so you should find the wiki even easier to edit and upload files. Our latest additions have been extensions to allow video embedding, to control page titles, to add intelligent footnoting and multiple file uploads.
Make a New Years resolution for 2012 to upload all the material you've been planning to for the last 5 years and I promise I'll do the same!
Earlier Status Notes
Contributions
I would like to assure contributors that unlike other forums and groups on the internet, the images and text contributed will never be reduced or culled to save space. The whole idea to this wiki is to save absolutely everything possible! This wiki is backed up regularly as well to protect these images and text and the investment in time put in to it by all.
Picture Preferences
All contribution are gratefully accepted but if possible, we would like photos in JPG format saved at 100% quality with no smoothing with a the largest dimension (either H or W) at 1500 pixels. At this size, it is not suitable for publication yet allows enthusiasts a great deal of detail when examining the photos.
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User Policy
Our policy to eliminate Spam robots and control Spam "content" will be:
1. The Wiki can not be edited by guests. Interested individuals will be allowed to contribute to the Wiki with no questions asked. If you are interested, make sure you have created a user name on the forum and then send an email on the forum by going to your User Control Panel, private messages, to user "STEM" explaining your interest and I will put you on the wiki with your forum username and password right away. Should you have problems with signing up in the forum, please direct your email to me at "Webmeister *at* DARDPI *dot* ca".----