[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:05:43 -0500
Good points all! The volunteer manual states:
Validators may recommend that a book be rejected for one of the following
reasons:
List of 5 items
. Book does not meet the
Requirements Which Books Must Meet Before Being Added to the Collection
. Book is of Poor scan-quality
. Book is not in the file format specified on the form.
. Book is already in the collection, and the existing copy does not need to
be replaced.
. Book is a duplicate of a submission by the same volunteer.
list end
I browsed around through the manual, but didn't find any definition of "poor
quality. Can anyone shed clarity on this?
I also understand about the credit thing. If a person can only maintain
their subscription to BookShare by submitting sloppy scans, then I wouldn't
want to deny them their subscription. (I know.It's my bleeding heart
thing.)
So here's an alternative to the alternative: Those of us who wish to
replace a fair quality submission with a better scan, should download the
fair quality offering, validate it for administrative approval as a fair
quality book which would give the original scanner the credits, and then
submit a BSO version of the same book as a replacement for the one just
added to the collection. This creates a little extra work, but not as much
as trying to clean up a bad scan. It would also move some of those books
which have been hanging around the step one page because no one wants to
touch them.
There must be a solution!
Donna
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