[bksvol-discuss] Re: friends don't let friends date Jason
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:59:17 -0500
She is an instructor, too, so she should definitely know better.
Sue S.
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From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 4:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: friends don't let friends date Jason
I won't pick up this person's scans anymore. They're usually not very
good, (the polite version) she will not permit herself to be
contacted, & the whole thing ends up taking a lot more time &
agravation than it's worth. & I am a christian-fiction-aholic. But
absolutely no book I validate will go into the bookshare collection as
crap. & if circumstances like those above prevent me from putting in a
book that's less than excellent, I'm just not gonna do it at all.
1 reason why some folks I know won't join Bookshare is because they
feel the quality of materials is inferior, & that has been true in the
past. There's a different breed of scanners & validators out here now,
but some still cling to what was acceptable in the past. Those folks
somehow need to be told, in no uncertain terms, that it's a brand new
day. & either failing to validate their scans &/or rjecting them when
that's indeed what needs to happen might be the best way to get that
message across with great clarity.
I think 1 way to do that from the very get-go is w/a tool similar to
that which is used to run books thru when they're uploaded for
acceptance. It should place particular emphasis on slashes, carets,
etc. & if there's a given percentage of those stray characters, or if
the submission is rated as fair, just have the submission rejected
right then & there. Maybe then folks'll start gettin' the idea it
isn't worth flooding the step 1 page w/crappy submissions. Till
something like that starts to happen, these folks will continue to
submit garbage &, by virtue of the sheer volume of material & patient
validators like Laura, still pay for their membership. If the
submitter is able to convince an administrator/staff member there's a
valid reason that the tool's rating should be ignored, then the
administrator can upload it & bypass the tool. I cannot imagine that'd
happen real often, though.
Bookshare has grown from a home-grown, grass-roots nonprofit to a
multi-million dollar organization. & for that reason, if no other, it
can't be accepting garbage-can submissions.
On 6/25/08, E. <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you so much for your honest thoughtful detailed answer.
>
> E.
>
>
> At 04:36 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
>>I validated and corrected many mistakes.
>>I read the entire book.
>>Page 160 needed a rescan but we couldn't reach the scanner...Judy
>>Jones .I was told to upload it and so I did. It does have phrases
>>in spanish and some words that don't have ing but in
>>I had been told and read in the volunteer manual not to correct
>>spelling from the author but leave it the way the author wrote it.
>>So I left it to the best I could.
>>
>>
>>I spent hours on the book and corrected all the contracted words
>>that had a w in place of n and
>>removed //// and other characters by hand.
>>It also had ^ that I removed and so on.
>>I corrected scanning errors but left the book the way it appeared to
>>be written.
>>
>>I would guess since it had one bad page in it that that is why it
>>ended up being good quality instead of excellent.
>>When I uploaded it it had an excellent rating but whoever did admin
>>work on it must have down graded it due to the one bad page ....we
>>tried to find the book, Cindy checked her library for me and some
>>others here on the list also checked to find it and I checked my
>>library but it was not available.
>>Carrie tried to help me as well but we couldn't reach the scanner
>>since there is no email address in the notes in the validation part
>>where the person submitted it.
>>
>>I took the book because I noticed it had been on step one and was
>>near the bottom and thought we were suppose to be working to clear
>>off step one and clean up books.
>>I feel I did a good job on the book.
>>I finished it a couple weeks ago but was waiting to see if anyone at
>>bookshare had a way to reach the submitter.
>>Today we decided to upload the book and I was under the impression
>>it would be all right.
>>Minimal loss to the story occurs due to the one page being a bad scan.
>>I was able to correct the rest.
>>
>>I thought I was going beyond what bookshare volunteer manual
>>requested and have worked hard on my validations.
>>
>>Laura Ann
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