[bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books
- From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:25:49 -0700
Sharon,
Be sure to encourage other colleges ad universities to partner with Bookshare
both in their DSRC and their publishing houses if they have any. My Bookshare
members who ar students insist that when their DSRC scans and proofs a book for
them that the DSRC send copy to Bookshare
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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From: Sharon [mt281820@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:58 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books
I love hearing about all this. It is educational and interesting to know how
all this stuff happens, especially now that I work as a Coordinator of a
Disability Support Services Center at a college.
Sharon
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Rains [mailto:scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:37 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: status of PQ books
Rick,
Great questions.
There has been a slowdown in books coming through. The tools for automating
several large publishers' feeds were completed at around the same time so
that explains the flood. Of course, even huge publisher catalogs are finite
so burning through them quickly all at once explains the slowdown.
Small publishers do less processing (Jim's references to no XML or ePubs and
instead PDF) so tools to automate are different. Each large publisher, for
example, required its own tool. The same is true for small pubs. In some
cases the difficulty of of creating automation to process their books
combined with the smallness of their catalog of books and lack of staff at
their end means some small pubs are very unlikey to come in except manually.
Unfortunately this doe not mean we have caught up with all backlogs. Some
backlogs, the largest number, are PQ files that get captured and diverted
for human inspection because of errors found by our automated processes.
As for the PDF issue we have been discussing on-list there are currently no
PDF files in backlog. We continue working on the processes for volunteers to
do these when more come in but at present we are caught up.
Did that help?
Scott Rains
Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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From: Rick Roderick [rickrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:27 AM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] status of PQ books
Hello everyone,
I think this is a question for Scott.
I have been amazed by the number of books that have been coming through
lately. However, although things never stop, I have noticed that not nearly
as many are coming through as previously.
Does this mean that you have caught up with the backlog of publishers that
use that XML-type files? I am wondering when we will start seeing more PQ
books by smaller publishers.
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