[bksvol-discuss] Re: Filter for Duplicates?
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:24:19 -0800
If storage space is a problem then bookshare has more issues than
duplicate books in the collection.
On 9/5/09, Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With one recent exception, the duplicates I have found were different in
> quality rating (not PQ vs excellent, but excellent vs fair or good). I
> submitted a book quality report on them and support deleted the lower
> quality one. The exception was a PQ book that the publisher apparently
> sent in twice with different author order. Actually, there was one
> other case where support said neither met current bookshare standards,
> so they had the outsourcers rescan it.
>
> I can think of two very good reasons to remove such duplicates. A
> reader might come across the poorer quality one and think bookshare
> isn't so hot, while if they'd found the excellent one first they would
> think bookshare is great. Also, they take up space on bookshare's system.
>
> Misha
>
> E. wrote:
>> There probably is a strong reason for bookshare not to have two
>> different copies of a book with each copy validated by a separate set
>> of volunteers. For one thing, we all probably want to know which is
>> the best copy and use that one.
>> Otherwise, we might as well have dozens of copies of a book on the
>> system and that certainly seems a bit strange to me at least.
>>
>> E.
>>
>> At 04:12 PM 9/5/2009, you wrote:
>>> I have found a few of those duplicates myself. I just let them be. Is
>>> there any strong reason for Bookshare not to have duplicates?
>>>
>>>
>>> "The end may justify the means as long as there is something that
>>> justifies the end.
>>> " Leon Trotsky
>>>
>>> The Militant:
>>> <http://wwww.themilitant.com>http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder
>>> Press: <http://www.pathfinderpress.com>http://www.pathfinderpress.com
>>> Granma International:
>>> <http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html>http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
>>> _
>>>
>>> table with 2 columns and 6 rows
>>> Subj:
>>> [bksvol-discuss] Re: Filter for Duplicates?
>>> Date:
>>> 9/5/2009 3:16:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>>> From:
>>> thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Reply-to:
>>> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To:
>>> bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent from the Internet
>>> (Details)
>>> table end
>>>
>>> Engineering tells us they do not even have a way of checking for
>>> duplicate books in the system right now let alone ones which are
>>> coming in.
>>>
>>> So, there certainly are duplicate copies of the same book in the
>>> system now. I have found a few myself, distinguished by slightly
>>> different spellings of a author's name or of the title of a book. And
>>> no, I am not talking about duplicates where one is a PQ copy and the
>>> other is a copy submitted by a volunteer. I mean two books each
>>> submitted by a volunteer.
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
>>> At 03:07 PM 9/5/2009, you wrote:
>>> >Hi,
>>> >
>>> >Since I don't read every post, I may have missed this if someone
>>> >else mentioned it, but here goes.
>>> >
>>> >Have the Bookshare engineers considered having a filter built into
>>> >the site so that if we submit our books and they have elements in
>>> >common with books already in the collection (or even in process, if
>>> >that's possible) an information box could come up informing us of
>>> >this? Whether we'd want it to appear only if two or more elements
>>> >were the same, such as title and author or title and ISBN, or
>>> >whether we'd like the info to come up even if just the author were
>>> >the same, i don't know. We could look at the list of similar titles
>>> >and if we realized we were duplicating we could stop the process.
>>> >Obviously we would all prefer to catch the fact that we had a
>>> >duplicate book before we even started scanning, but if we missed
>>> >that fact somehow this would be a checkpoint. If we wished to
>>> >continue for any reason we could do so and if necessary explain why
>>> >in our comments.
>>> >
>>> >If this has all been mulled over already, I really do apologize.
>>> >
>>> >Ilene
>>> >To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
>>> >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> >put 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus
>>> >signature database 4398 (20090905) __________
>>> >
>>> >The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.
>>> >
>>> >http://www.eset.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
>>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> put 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.
>>
>> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
>> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> put 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.
>>
>>
>
> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> put 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.
>
>
--
Soronel Haetir
soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put 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.
Other related posts:
