[bksvol-discuss] Re: An alternative to validating fair quality submissions
- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:54:32 -0700
Donna:
I am not a member of bookshare--I'm workin on doing that thru scanning
& validating, but it'll take awhile. Having said thus, I would not
think even for a nanno-second of submitting a sloppy scan. It isn't
fair. Folks pay good money or spend lots of hours of their precious
time to scan &/or validate books for the collection in order to become
a member, &, as such, they deserve the best that can be offered. I
will delay getting my membership rather than sacrifice quality--& do
so gladly.
On 1/12/08, siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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