[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:20:40 -0800 (PST)
See, that was my concern--that whether it's because of
deceit or lack of observation, the quality of books
being submitted won't be accurately rated. That's why
I would, and think I did, suggest that the books
*not* be rated until the validator rates them.
Validators won't have any preconceptions when they
download a book--they'll just go by the title and what
seems to interest them, and then can reject or rate
the book when they've finished validating it.
G.CIndy
--- Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll tell yall what, folks--I am absolutely utterly
> & profoundly
> astounded at how much cleaning up of this book I'm
> doing that was
> rated frickin excellent on step 1! Somehow it just
> does not seem quite
> right-- oodles & oodles ofspurious characters, quite
> a few letters
> messed up, & I'm rather suspecting even some missing
> pages, though
> it's hard to prove cuz the numbers jive but not the
> text. Another
> quarter per hour project. Or less--Lol! & I'll tell
> yall what some
> more--if I paid for a membership & downloaded this
> book in the
> condition it's in now, I would be sooo royally
> torked! So even those
> books w/excellent ratings--'taint necessarily so.
> Bookshare really
> needs to get a prevalidating tool up & running. Or
> maybe it's just
> that I'm a perfectionist & I need to quit worrying
> about it, do the
> minimum, & throw it back up w/all the garbage
> intact. I somehow just
> cannot bring myself to do it. I really think a
> prevalidating tool &
> refusal to accept books (at least for credit) that
> aren't good (or
> maybe even excellent) quality would be a real start.
> As it is now, q&d
> validators & scanners get credits quickly (so long
> as the stuff isn't
> rejected) while those who are careful about their
> work struggle to get
> theirs.
>
> On 1/14/08, Allison Hilliker
> <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If one does follow Donna's suggestion of
> submitting excellent copies of fair
> > quality books on the step one page, I have one
> request. Please submit your
> > excellent copy to the step one page before
> rejecting the fair quality scan.
> > I say this because I know of scanners who reject
> books because they say they
> > will submit a better scan, and then they don't do
> it.
> >
> > Just my thoughts,
> >
> > Allison
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Donna Smith" <donnafsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 8:22 AM
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] An alternative to
> validating fair quality
> > submissions
> >
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I apologize in advance if this suggestion
> ruffles feathers, but it is made
> > > in the spirit of getting excellent quality books
> into the collection.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am one of the volunteers who believes that
> "validating" a book shouldn't
> > > involve rewriting it because the scan is poor.
> There are some books which
> > > have strange formatting or difficult tables and
> charts or other things
> > > that
> > > typically don't scan well and the only way to
> get such books into the
> > > collection is in fact for a very patient
> validator to go through the whole
> > > book and fix problematic errors that a rescan
> won't fix.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > However, there are a lot of books on the step
> one download page that are
> > > just straightforward text, fiction or
> nonfiction, that should scan with no
> > > problems, but are rated as fair. In my opinion,
> it is a waste of
> > > volunteer
> > > time and effort to have a validator make these
> scans passable.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So here's my alternative. If I, or any other
> scanner, obtains a copy of a
> > > book that is currently awaiting validation and
> rated fair, would it be
> > > appropriate for us to download the fair copy,
> reject it, and then upload a
> > > better scan of the same book?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Ideas? No rotten tomatoes please!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Donna
> > >
> > >
> >
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>
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