[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
- From: Cindy Reece <cindyreece524@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:44:22 -0500
I'm a new voluteer and the first thing I would have liked to know was how much
time it takes to validate a book. I couldn't decide if I was too picky because
it would take up to 4 hours to do Hanna Montana! I've gotten a little faster
now. Especially when the manual only says to make sure all the pages are there.
I think one thing this discussion has shown me is you can't be too picky (or is
that obsessive?)
When I became a new voluteer I asked for a mentor. Maybe as new people sign up
we could have a list of people on a greeting committee to help them through the
first few books. I know it doesn't take long to catch on.
The other Cindy R.
From: lavendar@xxxxxxxxxxx: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008
14:38:15 -0500
Actually, Monica, you make a good point about reading the entire book through.
the manual doesn't say that you must do this as a validater. I must say, that
the times that I did just even skim through the book, and sort of "zoned out"
while "reading", I missed some critical things..so..yeah, reading each and
every book you validate all the way through is a good place to start!
Caitlyn
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That’s a great way to help improve the
quality of our books. I think we have a lot of highly-skilled validaters around
here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one thing to be included, and
it seems almost unnecessarily obvious. It’s the one thing that a person can do
to build a great foundation. Please, please read the book all the way through.
You can do a lot with a spellchecker and removing headers, but reading the book
itself is the way you can catch scannos like the word car for cat or die for
the. It’s also how you can be certain that all pages are present since scanners
don’t always handle page numbers well. There are literally thousands of books
in the collection that were scanned pretty well but that needed someone to read
through and remove scannos. I know Bookshare doesn’t require people to read a
book and that the validation process was different five years ago. Where we are
now in 2008 is a new landscape for volunteers. Since validaters get the same
amount of credit submitters do, I think it’s fair for validaters to read the
book just as submitters are required to scan the whole book.
Ok, I’ve said my piece. I’m going back to my scanner now. (smile) Now where did
I put my coffee cup?
Monica Willyard
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