[bks-img-desc] Re: From the Bookshare Image Description Discussion List

  • From: Pete <covinopete@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 11:23:50 -0700

Pleas take me off this email list 

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On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Hari Srinivasan <email4hari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Scott, 
> I still have problems accessing the books themselves. The website seems to 
> require me to load a daisy book from my hard drive. Of course my computer 
> does not have these books. I am still stuck on this step. 
> 
> How do i even get to look at these most elusive books. 
> 
> Hari
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> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Pamela Hoffard <crosssttch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Scott!
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> From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 10:17 AM
> Subject: [bks-img-desc] Re: From the Bookshare Image Description Discussion 
> List
> 
> And the books list attached this time!
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> From: Scott Rains <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 07:31:48 -0700
> To: "bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bks-img-desc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bks-img-desc] From the Bookshare Image Description Discussion List
> 
> Image Description Volunteers,
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> The new Bookshare Image Description Discussion List is up and functioning. 
> Already several books have almost all their images tagged. (You have done 
> over 2,000!) One of these also has all its image descriptions complete as 
> well. Great work.
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> As we enter the weekend people have been asking for new books where they can 
> tag images as "Needs description." Attached is the list to work from.
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> Remember that our first pass is to mark each image as requiring a description 
> or not. The attached protocols are designed to help you make that decision.
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> Email me when you have completed tagging a book's images. Then I can promote 
> it for volunteers to do image description on.
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> Keep in mind that brevity is important in descriptions.
> 
> Scott Rains
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