[bksvol-discuss] Re: Top 5 reasons why a book gets remanded to the Step 1 Validation List
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 01:14:14 -0800 (PST)
Nicely stated, Gustavo. Thanks for the clear statement
and for letting us know that notifying the validator
if kickbacks has a high priority. That will save a lot
of time and effort and get books into the collection
faster.
Cindy
--- Gustavo Galindo <Gustavo.G@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> gentlepeople,
>
>
>
> while it is still a high priority to get engineering
> work to redo how
> the Bookshare.org website both handles books that
> get sent back to the
> validation queue and notify the last volunteer who
> worked on it, in the
> meantime here's a reminder of the top 5 reasons why
> any Bookshare.org
> administrator would send a book back to the Step 1
> Validation Queue:
>
>
>
> One: Copyright information is unclear or incorrect.
> Most often, the
> submitter of the scanned book will just list the
> publisher. To comply
> with copyright requirements, Bookshare.org must have
> the correct
> copyright information as found in the scanned book.
>
>
>
> Two: Title is misspelled. Verify that the title is
> spelled correctly,
> and that the title is complete and matches what is
> reflected on the
> title page of the scanned book.
>
>
>
> Three: Author name is misspelled. Verify that the
> author's name (and
> name only at this time, no professional titles,
> associations,
> distinctions) is spelled correctly and matches what
> is reflected on the
> title page of the scanned book.
>
>
>
> Four: Brief or Long Synopsis needs to be
> spell-checked and read for
> reasonable accuracy. Correct spelling of any info
> entered into either
> synopsis field is important for comprehension by
> somebody who may be
> browsing our books. Please be sure to spell-check
> these two fieds. Make
> sure that the info contained in these two fields
> bares some resemblance
> to what the book is about.
>
>
>
> Five: Verify categories selected. All categories
> selected by a book's
> original submitter are subjective, and you are faced
> with the same
> subjectivity when validating the book. If both
> fiction and non-fiction
> are selected, i'm going to ask questions. If
> "Textbook" is selected, and
> the submitted book in question is not obviously a
> textbook, i'll ask
> that you give a little explanation for your
> rationale.
>
>
>
> When you have questions about books, please feel
> free to contact us.
> John Glass, our Customer Support Manager, is
> Bookshare.org's primary
> liaison with the volunteer community,
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx is his
> email. Of course, anybody else on the Bookshare.org
> staff is available
> for your email inquires as well.
>
>
>
> We always are grateful for your efforts, and
> appreciate your patience
> until we have sufficient engineering resources to
> improve this part of
> Bookshare.org's functionality which is long-overdue.
>
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> gustavo galindo
>
> Bookshare.org Website Manager
>
>
Cindy
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