Why not just include the text version of the document and skip the pictures?
Two reasons. First, there is value in seeing the historical documents as they were presented. Second, in an earlier stab at this project a text-only approach was attempted, but there were so many informative artifacts in the report that were difficult to resolve, there was really no choice but to go with the “intact” approach. For example, do we convert/reformat the appendices, which might include graphs and charts, do we impose our own uniform standard for cockpit voice recorder transcripts, etc. Ultimately, if this approach had been taken, it would have been tantamount to would have been republishing this data, which wasn’t really the project’s objective–the original data was designed for a print audience; our objective is reproducing the data for increased accessibility.
