Nevertheless, I seem to remember seeing something on the Open Library site to the effect that if you have books that you have scanned then this is how to contact Archive.org about contributing them to be converted to protected Daisy format. However, this response indicates that they are not accepting such contributions currently. Either I am imagining what I thought I saw or it has been removed.
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Hi Roger and everyone! That was an interesting response. This link is informative. http://openlibrary.org/help/faq#what-is-daisy Debby At 06:37 PM 9/29/2010, Roger Loran Bailey wroteI asked a question on the Open Library discussion list about supplying Open Library with Daisy books or books that they could convert to Daisy. I thought you guys might be interested in the answer I got:Hi Roger, Apologies for the slow response. On 9/27/10 12:16 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:Somewhere on the Open Library site I saw something about contributing scansof books to be converted into protected Daisy downloads.It's near impossible to contribute a scan to be made available as a DAISYdownload today, although this feature would be Super Awesome and we'd like to do it.For now though, it's possible to donate a physical book to our Book Drive, which results in the donated book being fed into our book scanning program and being made available through Open Library as a protected DAISY. I've been telling friends to send another copy of whatever books they buy on Amazon to the BookDrive :) Info here: http://openlibrary.org/bookdriveIt seems straightforward (at least in prose) to imagine a system where somebody could upload a PDF through archive.org and funnel it out as a protected DAISY.I am a volunteer for Bookshare.org and I haveseveral books on my hard drive that I have scanned for them. The ones thathave been accepted into the Bookshare collection have been proofread, but the copies I have have not. I was wondering if these are acceptable forbeing provided to Archive.org and then being made available in Open Library.Actually, we're working with Bookshare too! The hope is that Open Library can be informed about the contents of the Bookshare catalog which we can display within openlibrary.org. (Similar to the processes we went through to gather Goodreads and LibraryThing IDs into OL records). We're hoping to have something to showbefore the end of the year on that front. It would also be good to allow editors of Open Library to connect to eBookresources elsewhere on the web on an ad-hoc basis. So, just like editors can correct an error or add some metadata to a record today, they would also be able to add a link to an electronic copy available external to archive.org. (Though,to be sure, archive.org is a great place to pop a copy of things!) Hope this helps, george _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxx http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discussTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to Ol-discuss-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx_ _ _ "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLTTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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