[bksvol-discuss] Re: How to be a black belt validater?
- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:44:43 -0800
How to be a black belt validater?Thank you Monica. Your E-mail exactly reflects
my sentiment and said it so much better than I did. Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Willyard
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:12 AM
Subject: [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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