Hi All,
There was a problem with the Bookshare master data base on Monday
afternoon. In fact, there was some very serious corruption to the data
base. Our web server guru got it fixed, but about 28 hours of Bookshare
data was totally lost. Yes, we checked, and there was no way out of this
situation!
As a result of the above, the Bookshare data, all of it has been set
back to the way it was this past Monday at Noon Pacific Time. So, if you've
submitted anything between then and last evening, you'll need to resubmit
it. If you had something approved by the site administrator, you will
receive a new message when he approves it again. If you downloaded anything
for vlaidation, it may appear on the site as being ready for download, etc.
I think the best approach is to just take note of anything that seems
amiss. We will not be able to answer individual questions on exactly what
has been undone in your specific case. However, after a day or two, if
something seems to be wrong and you can't fix it by redownloading or
whatever, please let us know.
By the way, for anyone who has subscribed or renewed in the past two
days, the data may have been temporarily lost from the web site, but our
trusty site administrator has independent copies of all the money stuff and
he will restore that information. So, if you've paid for something and now
the site says you haven't, please don't worry about it for at least a day or
two. It will more than likely be corrected in due course.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
________________________ Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D. Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org www.bookshare.org
A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity peter @benetech.org www.benetech.org
