[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:42:46 -0600
People are going to think, oh, here we go, a spoiled NLs bRAILLE USER.
hOWEVER, WHY SHOOULLD WE VALIDATORS WASTE OUR TIME ON POOR QUALITY BOOKS,
WHEN THE RESULTS WILL STILL BE POOR QUALITY?
sUE s., WHO TYPED IN ALL CAPS WITHOUT PROOFING!!!!!! <LOL>
----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Smith
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality
submissions
Good points all! The volunteer manual states:
Validators may recommend that a book be rejected for one of the following
reasons:
List of 5 items
. Book does not meet the
Requirements Which Books Must Meet Before Being Added to the Collection
. Book is of Poor scan-quality
. Book is not in the file format specified on the form.
. Book is already in the collection, and the existing copy does not need to
be replaced.
. Book is a duplicate of a submission by the same volunteer.
list end
I browsed around through the manual, but didn't find any definition of "poor
quality. Can anyone shed clarity on this?
I also understand about the credit thing. If a person can only maintain
their subscription to BookShare by submitting sloppy scans, then I wouldn't
want to deny them their subscription. (I know.It's my bleeding heart
thing.)
So here's an alternative to the alternative: Those of us who wish to
replace a fair quality submission with a better scan, should download the
fair quality offering, validate it for administrative approval as a fair
quality book which would give the original scanner the credits, and then
submit a BSO version of the same book as a replacement for the one just
added to the collection. This creates a little extra work, but not as much
as trying to clean up a bad scan. It would also move some of those books
which have been hanging around the step one page because no one wants to
touch them.
There must be a solution!
Donna
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