[bksvol-discuss] Re: That Wretched Apostrophe

Evan,
 
Despite my suggestion from this morning, I hardly ever selfvalidate my
submissions.  And, I've been volunteering for Bookshare ever since the
organization started.  I usually feel that having someone else look at the
submission gives it a nice check.
 
Pratik
 
Pratik Patel
Director, CUNY Assistive technology Services (CATS)
The City University of New York
pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx 
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Hovas
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:35 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: That Wretched Apostrophe



Evan,

 

You're not mistaken.  Bookshare does prefer that someone else validate the
book, but it's not a requirement.  Some volunteers hav enough experience at
validating and are so thorough that even another experienced validator won't
find enough to make it worth someone's time to go back over a submission.
If someone is a new volunteer , though, I highly recommend that they don't
validate their own submissions since as most of us have learned, the more
you learn about volunteering, the more there seems to be to learn.  Because
of this, self-validators should be the exception, not the norm.

 

HTH

 

Gerald

 

 

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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 7:53 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: That Wretched Apostrophe

 

As I understand things, you can take the book and "really" validate it.  You
don't have to self-validate and then release it for someone else to REALLY
validate.  When you do validate it, you can correct the title at that time.

  According to the validation instructions I have, Bookshare encourages you
to let someone else validate what you submit, but if you know the book is
complete and that the copyright information is correct, then you can
validate it yourself if you want to.

 

If I am mistaken about any of this, I'm sure that more experienced people
here will point it out in short order, so that you do the right thing.

 

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From: Monica  <mailto:MCortada@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cortada 

To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:34 AM

Subject: [bksvol-discuss] That Wretched Apostrophe

 

   I left the apostrophe out of the title.  If I take it to self-validate,
can I send it back to the first page for someone else to really validate?
If that won't work, could I take it to self-validate, release it and then
resubmit it corrected?

 

Monica

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