I agree with all your points. Another wish I have is that if we release a book, we could upload the copy we have worked on. That way, if a validater gets sick, or can't continue working on a book, the work already done would not be lost. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:38 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] bottlenecks in submitting and validating > we need smoother communication between submitters, validators and paid staff. > We have several bottlenecks in this process. > > It is possible that these might be remedied by changes to either the > bookshare site or > the site which includes "no book left behind". > > Bottleneck 1. the endless renewal of a book for validating by the same > individual. I do not know what is going on here exactly. Either you are > working on a book or you are not. I can understand some books taking a > very long time, sometimes a month or two. I have had this > example. Shurely a 90 day limit on a renewal by the same individual would > work. It could be waived by administrative approval. > > I realize that I am actually making for for an administrator here but the > point is these are rare situations. You would release the book after your > 90 days no matter what. You would have to apply to get it back. This is > deliberately harsh to stop abuse of th renewal process. Whatever is going > on, I doubt it is contributing to ultimately getting the book into the main > collection. > > bottleneck 2. loss of knowledge of a book and its needs during the > validation process. I take a copy of a book to validate. I learn its > quirks. For one reason or another I release it. My knowledge is lost to > the next validator. There could be a comments field which I could fill out > (optionally) when I release a book. The knowledge would possibly be useful > to future validators. If bookshare itself is not interested in doing this > (or cannot do so financially), perhaps it could be part of the "no book > left behind" program. I am going for increased efficiency of the > validation process here not who puts it on whose site. The point is to > have a running commentary about a specific book available for a validator. > Perhaps bookshare could put a link to the alternate web site on the release > page where you could check and be sent to that site after releasing the > book. They the releaser could make a comment on the "no book left behind" > site. > > bottleneck 3. quality of input. The better the original scan the faster > the validation work. > > If you have an older version of k1000, the upgrade to version 10 will cost > you around a hundred dollars. The tools you will get increase your power > as a submitter or validator by creating a better product. > > >